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What is the value of an Online Degree?
I overheard a University of California professor the other day discussing hiring. He said he would never consider someone that had an online degree for a professor position. His reason was simple, he...
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Calling for more change, really?
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is calling for a change in how perspective Teachers are taught in our nation’s schools of education. I am a big fan of change and think it is great that the...
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Netbooks, netbooks and more netbooks
In case you haven’t heard (and I doubt you have) we here at Le Grand have embarked on a grand netbook experiment. Its a funny thing really because up until a year ago we didn’t have any plans to...
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The School Train
School is a train. I don’t mean one of those long slow freight trains bogged down by a hundred tons of steal and cargo. No, school is a bullet train charging down the track, leaving the day 1 station...
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The Trouble With Tribbles (And iPads Too)
Tribbles! I’m not quite old enough to have watched the Star Trek episode featuring the fuzzy little critters when it first aired back in 1967. However, I do remember as a kid staying over at my friend...
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A Little Perspective: Teaching Basic iPad Skills to Parents
I just got home from teaching a group of our parents basic iPad skills. I communicated my lesson through an interpreter which was a first for me. The translation delay took my brain some getting used...
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Time For An App Stipend For Teachers
I just spent $6.99 for the FluencyFinder app for my iPad. It was an impulse buy, granted but after having read about it in a blog post, it looked like an app I should be familiar with. But then, I do...
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A Little Perspective: Teaching Basic iPad Skills to Parents
I just got home from teaching a group of our parents basic iPad skills. I communicated my lesson through an interpreter which was a first for me. The translation delay took my brain some getting used...
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Time For An App Stipend For Teachers
I just spent $6.99 for the FluencyFinder app for my iPad. It was an impulse buy, granted but after having read about it in a blog post, it looked like an app I should be familiar with. But then, I do...
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