This is a guest post by Jan Pierce - a 4th grade teacher who has over 20 years of experience in the classroom. Her interests include educational technology and online learning. She also owns the site Elementary Education Degree for students interested in earning a degree in elementary education. 1. Ego – This is an essential [...]

Stypi is a collaborative text editing tool that came out of YCombinator a couple months ago. It’s supposed to be filling a blank left behind Etherpad when it chewed up by Google and spat out as Wave. Though I’ve never used Etherpad and have only seen Piratepad once or twice I’ve come to rely on [...]

Science Wednesday is a category I’ve wanted to create for a while. It will feature a weekly summary of an interesting academic article or other piece of science that I find – the primary reason being to force me into reading original sources and hopefully give you guys something interesting. Even though the world is [...]

In my usual fashion I’m a bit late to discover this bit of news, a day or so late. Naturally I still wanted to share my thoughts on the matter, I mean that’s what blogging is about, our narcissistic tendencies to shout into the void and see if anyone will hear it. Last week an [...]