"That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It." & Schools

Ian Jukes of edtechnot.com has an excellent, easy-to-understand article explaining why school reform is so necessary and so difficult:

Ian Jukes article - 1/03 via kwout
I recommend the whole article, especially if you disagree with it - http://www.edtechnot.com/notarticle103.html - because the snippit I’ve supplied doesn’t include the logic.

Via Experiencing E-Learning - http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/daily-bookmarks-01242008/ - final link.
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Using Styles for Academic Papers, & Zotero for Research

Writing essays, papers, dissertations and other academic pieces is (or should be) radically changed by two tools:

the Styles tool in word-processing;
Zotero, the Firefox researching tool.

Teachers who have your students research and write, take note: your students need to learn how to use these tools, consequently so do you;-> There’s an article on the Next [...]

A New Web Research Tool - Yoono

Text and image notes below video I’m editing the shared post from my Yoono account because, although Yoono looks very handy for saving material found on the web, (text, images and video), it isn’t completely my fantasy.

You only get to see one section of my notes on my “buzz” on the Yoono demo [...]