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K12 Online Conference 2009: Help Bridge the Divide

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

The K12 Online Conference 2009 officially begins next week and will continue throughout the month of December.  This year’s theme, Bridging the Divide, is a call to engage educators who otherwise might not be aware of and/or participate in this exciting opportunity.  While the conference blog, wiki, Ning network, and Facebook page are great sources [...]

Comics in the Classroom

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Whether you regard them as comic books or graphic novels, “sequential art” has emerged as a popular and powerful method for engaging students.  Although in education circles this medium is typically associated with language arts and viewed as a literary genre and/or strategy for enticing reluctant readers, a recent presentation by noted Marvel Comics artist  [...]

Digital Literacy 09: Image Editing

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Imaging editing is the final and perhaps most popular topic in our 7th Grade Digital Literacy course; it seems that nearly everyone enjoys taking and manipulating images.  Just as “Googling” has become THE verb for searching the web, “Photoshopping” is the de facto standard for image editing.   As such, the powerful yet user-friendly Photoshop [...]