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Diaspora

The last thing many folks want to hear is that there is a new social network service available for their use. Diaspora is just beginning to emerge and looking for participants. I was and continue to be interested in Diaspora … Continue reading

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Student public content in jeopardy?

This post (from Hack Education) claims that Georgia Tech has banned public class wikis as a FERPA violation. Most of us understand FERPA as the day we were told we could no longer post exam scores on our doors. Georgia … Continue reading

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Word Press Image Gallery

I got a little bored spending the holiday at the office so I decided to take a break to see if I could get this to work. The idea is to add a collection of images – an image gallery … Continue reading

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Plagiarism sources

A short article in THE summarizes data from Turnitin on secondary and higher education plagiarism. This is interesting.

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Too many curators and not enough creators

I am attempting to approach this topic with an open mind. Let me begin with this – the big winners online are the content creators. Facebook, Google, Bing – make the big bucks by “bringing value” to the content generated … Continue reading

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Testing an important assumption of vouchers

This summary regarding the practice of moving under-performing students from poorly performing schools resulted from research from the RAND corporation. This study addresses the extreme case – schools that have been closed. Students transferred to another school after their earlier … Continue reading

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