Daily Spotlight on Education 10/23/2009

• Teach Yourself How to Be Happier | Edutopia

  There are things we teach and things we SHOULD teach. Teaching ourselves to be happier is something we have to look for.

  tags: education, learning

• Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors' blog: Will the Nook Eat the Kindle's Lunch?

  Barnes and Noble's response to the Kindle: The Nook.
  
  It uses the Android operating system (Google's mobile OS) and can install 3rd party Android Apps. It also has an MP3 player but does not have built in text to speech (so no UDL here) -
  
  If you use the free wifi at Barnes and Noble you can read any ebook for free - otherwise it is something that you need to buy.

  tags: education, ebook, library, librarian, wireless_connectivity, web2.0, www_world, edu_news, edu_trends

• WatchKnow - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized.

  Site that organizes youtube videos for students. This is very cool.

  tags: education, web2.0, worldonline, arts_entertainment

• Things That Keep Us Up at Night - 10/1/2009 - School Library Journal

  Must read article that is tearing through the blogs of librarians and media specialists like wildfire this October. If you work with libaries and media centers this is a must read and must pass along if only to spark conversation (and oh, it has.)

  tags: education, mediacenter, librarian, administrator, edu_news

• A Difference: Scribes Spreading

  Darrent Kuropatwa has put together a list of class scribe blogs that you can review if you are intrigued as this trend.

  tags: education, blogging, edu_trends, edublogger

• A Week For Computer Science Education | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM

  Conversations about Computer Science education week are beginning to float around. I think we can do many easy things including webinars and sessions with leaders that students can interact with live and even just a hashtag for people to follow on twitter who care about the topic would be useful.

  tags: education, learning, computer, computerscience_teacher, computerscience, edu_news

• A Week For Computer Science Education: US designates Dec 7 as computer Sci education week

  Computer Science Education week in the USA is going to be December 7th - Microsoft Blogger Alfred Thompson (and in my humble opinion one of the definitive leaders in advocating computer science education) has shared a blog post about this. If you teach computer science or touch on it, consider planning some things.

  tags: education, computerscience_teacher, computerscience

• Keep It Clean

  My good friend @Luke1946 on Twitter (we've also met before - he is SOOOOO smart) pointed me to the resources that he uses to help speed up the boot of computers. WE're having sloowwww boot times in our computer lab and here is where I'm heading.

  tags: education, learning, techsupport, all_teachers, edu_newapp, techintegrator

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