Steve Dembo at teach42 posted about crowdSPRING, a site on which creative projects [logo, website design, etc.] are posted for all to see. Then designers, hobbyists and, as Dembo points out, students can respond to the ad with a design that may be chosen. In “Real World Art,” Dembo writes: “The site is called CrowdSPRING and [...]

I’ve undergone a bit of rebranding and started up a few new projects - had to go on a posting hiatus. But I decided to push the button on the left, so the Aughts will resume tomorrow.

Here’s a neat contest for K-12 students - Inspiring Invention. Students can create a motivational/inspiring public service announcement to get others to invent: “Enter to win the Inspiring Invention Contest. Create a public service announcement that motivates others to get inspired and start inventing. Show us how invention enriches everyday life and your school could win [...]

If you subscribe to any education-related newsletters - or about a billion like I do - your screen drips with ads for online degrees and distance learning opportunities. … and sites that offer, facilitate and aggregate online degrees and distance learning opportunities. At a certain point you just stop paying attention. Throw into the mix that some [...]

The education debate continues over at NewTalk.org. The topic at hand - the final in a month-long series on education - is whether we should scrap No Child Left Behind. Jay P. Greene is moderating this debate. He says on his own blog, “Let them all talk.” Ed is Watching is impressed by the star-studded cast [...]

If you aren’t already following me on Twitter, you ought to start. I link to and comment on education stories ’round the clock. And if you’re new to Twitter or aren’t sure how to get started, check out TwiTip’s 10 Easy Steps for Twitter Beginners. Give it a whirl! Now for the Great Links… and some real [...]

Thank God for Google Reader. At this point, I follow ~500 blogs, view ~12,000 items a month [about 85% are education related] and highlight/distribute about 2% of those posts in a host of ways. And then there’s the education blog… … and Twitter, an excellent, free PR tool. If you aren’t following me on Twitter already - [...]

Doesn’t matter which side you’re on, this week probably tired you out. Pay homage to that legendary internet time-waster: relax and have a great Saturday night.

In case you were wondering, “Ed.D.” also stands for “Educrat Dolt.” Apparently Ms. Harris teaches in Fayetteville, not Asheville, in the Cumberland County system. Not that it matters to me - I don’t care which city or state she’s in. She’s an awful, destructive teacher. Dr. William Harrison, Cumberland County Schools Superintendent, released an obnoxious yawner of [...]

For an update from Cumberland County Schools Superintendent William Harrison - and for analysis of his statement - check out the new post. Discussing politics in the classroom is a delicate thing. It’s a bit like open heart surgery; if you know what you’re doing, you can perform miracles. If you don’t, you’re going to cause [...]