A Hole in the Clouds - Never-Seen: Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Photo Gallery - LIFE
via life.com
Powerful, emotional images published for the first time on the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
scott’s thoughts
collecting online sundries since 2007
8 Aug
2010
8 Aug
2010
Aligning Data with School Mission: Collecting and Using the Right Data for School Improvement
She also declares, somewhat rhetorically: “Not everything that matters can be measured. Can you measure friendship? decency? love? Sometimes, what is measured matters least.
8 Aug
2010
The Latino Digital Divide: The Native Born versus The Foreign Born
While 85% of native-born Latinos ages 16 and older go online, only about half (51%) of foreign-born Latinos do so. When it comes to cell phones, 80% of native-born Latinos use one, compared with 72% of the foreign born.
via pewhispanic.org
(via @gdahlby)
6 Aug
2010
xkcd: University Website
via xkcd.com
This is certainly true of CSU's home page.
I'll be giving my school's website another look...
6 Aug
2010
5 Reasons Why Educators Should Network
A personal learning network is "really the best investment of time a person can make considering the demands on education today," he said.
via convergemag.com
I'm on-record as not being a fan of the moniker "Personal Learning Network," but this is a great piece on the importance of teachers engaging with others via social networking tools.
6 Aug
2010
Portland Social Media Project Ignites Passion for Learning
In addition to using social media to help kids learn, the school is contacting them in different ways to see if other methods are more effective. Before, the school would have a contractor check in on chronically truent kids every day or offer rewards such as going to the front of the lunch line if you came 10 days in a row. Now Delmatoff texts them each morning at 8 a.m. to make sure they're awake and getting ready for school, which starts at 9 a.m.
via convergemag.com
I'm so going to do this...
4 Aug
2010
Dangerously Irrelevant
When you code classroom practice for level of cognitive demand . . . 80% of the work is at the factual and procedural level. . . . [Teachers] will do low-level work and call it high-level work.
Richard Elmore via Scott McLeod
31 Jul
2010
No Reason You Can't Be Chiropractor Like Your Cousin Jeffrey | The Onion
According to your Aunt Sharon, Jeffrey is his own boss, he can take vacation time whenever he wants, and people call him "doctor."
via theonion.com
Scott Elias's Posterous
This is a place for everything that doesn't fit somewhere else in my digital life. It started out in 2007 on Tumblr, but I recently ported it over to Posterous.
I use it to post stuff that's too short to blog and too long to Tweet, as well as found items that I want to share somewhere beyond Delicious, and anything else that suits me.
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