Web Search Strategies in Plain English
This short video from Common Craft is designed to help you get more from your web searches.
Projections of Education Statistics to 2017
This publication provides projections for key education statistics. It includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment and earned degrees conferred expenditures of degree-granting institutions. For the Nation, the tables, figures, and text contain data on enrollment, teachers, graduates, and expenditures for the past 14 years and projections to the year 2017. For the 50 States and the District of Columbia, the tables, figures, and text contain data on projections of public elementary and secondary enrollment and public high school graduates to the year 2017. In addition, the report includes a methodology section describing models and assumptions used to develop national and state-level projections.
To view, download and print the report as a PDF file, visit:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008078
Edmodo - microblogging for education
Edmodo is a new private microblogging platform developed by two K-12 network administrators/webmasters use in the classroom by teachers and students. Edmodo provides teachers and students the ability to share notes, links, and files to foster communication inside and outside of the classroom. Teachers also have the ability to post alerts, assignments, and events to share with their students in a twitter-esq online control panel.
I signed-up for an account and will be giving Edmodo a try. Anyone else already trying out Edmodo? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Sifting and sharing my favorites with Google Reader
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m far from the being the “ideal blogger” that writes detailed, lengthy, insightful posts on a regular basis. I hope to one day become more faithful and substantive in my blog postings. However, right now, I find that the primary purpose I have for blogging is to share and archive quick information updates as well as post concerning new technology, tools, or approaches that I find interesting.
Often, what I want to do is to quickly tag a blog posting and aggregate it somehow with my other favorites. Google Reader has a very easy-to-use sharing feature that allows me to either on the web of mobile interface to mark a posting as starred and/or shared.
Shared postings are aggregated in a convenient location so that others can quickly see what I’m reading. To catch a glimpse of my recent shared items, click here.
While I will continue to post to my blog with select new tools or approaches that I find worth mentioning, I now have a much easier way to simply flag a posting as one I’ve found of interest and want to share with others. This is even easier than bookmarking a posting and adding it to my collection of delicious bookmarks.
If you are a Google Reader user and you’d like to follow my shared items from within Google Reader, just post a comment or shoot me an email with your email address and I’ll get you added.
Google Reader in Plain English
This new video from Common Craft explains how easy it is to get started using Google Reader.
You can find links to more great videos explaining new technologies in simple terms on the CommonCraft blog.