Daily Spotlight on Education 06/07/2009
Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools
Really, there should be vice principals in schools who have the job to set up an RSS page to monitor this for their schools. Who is monitoring what people are saying about your business or organization? Do you care? You should!
12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives | bridges.org
Excellent reading for IT Directors and Technology Integrators - I particularly like the part about doing your homework and the thorough needs assessment - this fits with excellent books like the Influencer that have researched positive change.
Teachers are important -- to me, sure, it would be nice to have higher salaries - but as someone who makes so much less than the promosed $125,000 teacher salaries from DC -- I think it is important for society to respect teachers AND for teachers to be the type of people that society can respect. Know that the news media is trying to get eyeballs and clicks and so sensational stories are what they sell and that for every horrible teacher story you hear, there are hundreds of thousands of great teacher stories that you won't!
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.