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On Our Minds @ Scholastic: How blogging can help students find their 'voice'

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The Screenr Blog — Freecast Your Way to Better Screencasts!

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A.nnotate.com: Upload, Annotate, Share. Online document review and collaboration - PDF, Word and HTML

A diigo for pdf's.

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Ron Bramhall on 2009-03-23

This looks like a promising service for feedback and gradebook type extractions within documents.

Lasse Nørfeldt on 2009-03-29

But does this mean that I won't have to use diigo?
I like to use only 1 program... Can anyone tell me the biggest difference between these two services?

Stand up for good history in Texas « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub

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The Texas State Board of Education is working to gut social studies curricula in Texas, with a special vent on history, which they appear to think is not fundamentalist Christian enough, and economics, where they think “capitalism” is, somehow, a dirty word.

Do I exaggerate? Very little, if at all. Really.

Textbook travails: Many concerned over changes to social studies curriculum - Poten & Partners

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Texas students "are going to know a great deal about their own state and it is a fine state, but they are going to know very little about the world and they are going to leave high school with a very myopic view of the history of humankind," Nash said in an interview.
The state offers two years of Texas history, one year of world history and a yearlong look at contemporary world culture. In contrast, California teaches three years of world history and one year of state history.
The result of the Texas method, according to Nash, is that many key figures are left out. They include Nicolaus Copernicus, Marie Curie and Pythagoras of Samos.
"This is a very inward- looking social studies curriculum -- a lot of gazing at the Texas navel and a very spare looking outward at the world," Nash said.
One of the most disputed parts of the state's proposed social studies curriculum is a list that details historic figures under two categories -- required to be taught and examples of what may be taught.