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NPR article discusses cheating in college.  Who is the main culprit?  Why do you think more students are  cheating?
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Happy Earth Day? How are you celebrating? Check out the New York Times’ list of 10 ways to “go green” – including SOE alum Shelly Wojewodzki’s “Go Paperless” challenge. Nearly 1,500 teachers from Vietnam to Kenya to the UK to Missouri to Venezuela have all taken the pledge to go paperless for Earth Day.

 Ten Ways [...]

If you are looking for facts concerning U.S. presidents, take a look at this bing site:
bing/U.S. Presidents
This might be a useful tool in the classroom.

Festival Dates: 10/10/10 – 10/24/10
Expo on the National Mall: October 23 & 24, 2010
The Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival will be the country’s first national science festival and will descend on the Washington, D.C. area in the Fall of 2010. The Festival promises to be the ultimate multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-disciplinary celebration of science [...]

It is impossible to adequately acknowledge in simple words the enduring generosity and inspiring support Johns Hopkins University has received over the past year from students, staff and faculty. So JHU has enlisted help from our amazingly talented faculty, staff and students, who have joined together to create the video at this link:
http://thankyou.jhu.edu/

Digital Portfolio Workshop
Sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and CTE
Monday, October 19, 2009
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Columbia Center
Participants will learn strategies for creating a high-quality portfolio that demonstrates ongoing professional development. Specific techniques for reflecting, developing, and showcasing a portfolio will be presented. Training facilitators: Kristin Winter and Francesca Carpenter, Center for Technology in Education. [...]

Posted June 4, 2009 on NECC09
This morning, a student sent me a link to an article describing the Internet crackdown occurring as official China has ‘prepared’ for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
“Looks like schools aren’t the only place Facebook is blocked,” read the text across my inbox.
As has been reported by Reuters [...]

 
The School of Education is now on Twitter – are you?
Follow @JHUeducation for updates on events, student/alumni news, and other topics of interest to the School of Education community.  Go to http://twitter.com/.

We recently had a technology workshop at my school and we were introduced to United Streaming.  I wanted to send this link on to you because it is a truly wonderful site. There are tons a videos and lesson plans from all different areas of education– from physical education to mathematics to literacy. I highly recommend checking [...]

Google now offers a way for the average person to create their own Custom Search Engine! With this technology educators no longer have to worry about their students conducting research on the World Wide Web and stumbling upon inappropriate websites because the Custom Search Engine restricts a search to a specific set of sites!
  
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