Just came across Wikipedia for Schools thanks to Alec Couros. This 2008/09 selection of Wikipedia is a “free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world“.
Wikipedia for Schools is also available for download and will fit on a standard DVD. Great resource for those that do not have access to the Internet either at school and/or at home.
The NIST Clock is intended as a time-of-day service only and should not be used to measure frequency or time interval.
Interestingly, you can also download software from NIST to use the Internet to automatically set your computer clock to the correct time using the Internet Time Service.
“Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to outline what it takes to get your state or province from ‘here’ to ‘there.’ In other words, what would it take to get from our current system of schooling to a robust, province- or statewide system of 21st century learning?”
His post and the accompanying comments are well worth a read. Would this scheme work for the Irish education system or your country’s education system?
I enjoyed listening to Stephen Heppell’s keynote presentation, this week, for the opening of the K12 Online Conference 2008. I, particularly, liked his analogy with the crisis that is currently affecting the financial system and his warning that this too could happen to the education system, if we do not act now!
Professor Heppell talks about a new model of learning that involves “schools built around mutuality and usness and sharing and democracy“. He warns us that “if we don’t adopt it then the old model of learning will disintegrate and will bite us in the face“.
However, Professor Heppell believes we can meet the challenge saying “For me, this is the most exciting time ever. This is absolutely the death of education but, you know, it is wonderfully the dawn of learning“.
This year, the Conference convenors are adding all the video content to the DotSub website, which enables any account member to add to the video’s transcription or translate the original text into another language. What a great idea!
It is, however, a very slow task requiring the help of many volunteers, but after all “many hands make light work“. Why not join in and add your bit or better yet encourage your students to also lend a hand.
What a wonderful opportunity for language students to participate in a ‘live’ and meaningful exercise. A global flat classroom project open to all :-)
Ever needed that bit of ’sample text’ to use for a word processing or desk top publishing demonstration? Well, look no further than Lorem Ipsum.
What exactly is Lorem Ipsum? Well, it comes from “sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC“, making it over 2000 years old!
Lorem Ipsum provides you with as much ‘dummy text’ as required in a range of different formats including words, paragraphs and lists. Once generated, just copy and paste the text to where you need it.
Lorem Ipsum is a very versatile text generator and is available in many different languages!
Patricia Donaghy
