The New York Times once again comes through with another excellent mapping of a calamitous event: the largest one-day decline in market history (see also their very well done interactive video timeline of events). The graphic maps the DOW’s decline against the vote in the House of Representatives, which killed the Bailout Plan: This…
The outstanding social bookmarking and annotating application, Diigo, has announced the release of Diigo Education. Designed in collaboration with educators from all grade levels, and with an eye toward the challenges of K-12 teachers gaining Diigo access in their classrooms, Diigo Education joins Edublogs and Voicethread with an education-specific side of an already robust…
In today’s New York Times, Dowd, Friedman, and Rich hold little back in their reading of the construction and marketing of, rhetoric coming from, and misreading by Sarah Palin and the (seemingly vanishing) John McCain: Dowd’s first sentence in “Bering Straight Talk”: I’ve been in Alaska only a week, but I’m already feeling ever…
I have been helping a colleague design her first Voicethread, and while I was on the site I came across a series of book reports by children that seem to be in the fourth grade. I have embedded one below and I don’t think I need to write why, though I will. Many of…