Nov
30
CLMS 2007: Marc Prensky
November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Marc’s theme: Engage me or enrage me.
Educating today’s digital native.
Technology changes; Tools switch. TV becomes You Tube; email becomes IM; Yahoo search becomes Google search; Hard drives become flash memory.
Our students are expecting things to change; they were “born to the idea of change.”
The nature of education is changing.
Tomorrow’s problems won’t be solved with today’s [...]
Nov
27
CLRN Embedded Video Clips
November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
CLRN has begun to publish video clips within our instructional video reviews beginning with the majority of the titles from 100% Educational Videos. Simply search for titles from this publisher to read the reviews and view the video clips. The programming for all 70 clips is complete. Click here to see an example.
While 100% Educational [...]
Nov
9
RSS & Google Reader: Organizing and Tracking Blogs
November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Brian Bridges
Recently, CLRN added nine new blogs to their web site so that customers can more easily track new review posts. Given, though, that many people are beginning to read blogs, but few know how to organize them (similar to those who know how to create but not organize bookmarks), we created a [...]
Nov
9
Technology Funding Challenges: Finding Green for your School
November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Brian Bridges
Finding new and/or steady funding sources for your technology plan implementation is a constant challenge for schools. During the past several years, most districts have had access to NCLB Title II, Part D funds, also known as Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) formula grants. In addition, Competitive EETT grants have provided some districts [...]
