K12Online Conference 2009

Here are some resources to support my K12 Online Conference presentation called Google SketchUp UnLeashed. Free Google SketchUp Download Google SketchUp Video Tutorials on YouTube Math and Google SketchUp Google Sketchup: 3D For The Rest Of Us Sample Google Sketchup Unit Google SketchUp Manuals Google SketchUp 3D Warehouse Google SketchUp Help Introduction to Google Sketchup 3dvinci [...]

‘Defining’ National Standards

A draft of the new national standards has been released (or been leaked). The general reaction is underwhelming. These national standards are everyone’s panacea for American education, but just like a balanced budget, everyone agrees on the idea but the devil is in the details. These draft standards are difficult to critique effectively because of the [...]

Toward Open Textbooks

Government and education are focusing on innovation and change.   One such innovation is the open textbook movement. Recently, California’s governor began an intitative to put an open textbook in the hands of every student in California.   Even the major curricular associations are getting into the act. Through wikis and blogs we can build open [...]

Review; Orchestrating the Media Collage

Orchestrating the Media Collage by Jason Ohler was published in the March 2009 issue of Educational Leadership entitled Literacy 2.0. I first encountered Ohler personally in the summer of 2006 at the NJPSA’s New Jersey Elite Conference where he delivered a great keynote.  What Will Richardson is for blogging, Ohler is for Digital Storytelling. The article begins [...]

Putting Rubber to the Road

Kevin Jarrett posted a few weeks ago about the  NJDOE’s proposed changes to the Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS). This post shined a well deserved spotlight on some excellent work that is rare in curriculum; a revolution rather than an evolution.  The proposed changes are the result of the deep thinking of the  NJDOE’s 2009 Standards [...]