Month: April 2003

I recently stumbled across an alert on a listserv attempting to activate readers to protest the proposed reworking of ERIC. I did not think too much more about this until I walked by the ERIC booth at AERA yesterday and the booth personnel were passing out stickers with the wording – SAVE ERIC.

The plan for the “New ERIC” makes the following changes:
Closes all 16 ERIC Clearinghouses
Eliminates personalized reference and referral services
Terminates AskERIC and clearinghouse question-answering services
Ends all networking and outreach activities, including ERIC-sponsored Listservs
Shuts down Clearinghouse Web sites currently visited by 22.5 million unique visitors a year

Earth Day is April 22nd. Stop by The Earth Day Groceries Project, and see what children around the world have been working on: Earth Day Bags. Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, this is one of the largest educational projects on the Internet.

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\nWelcome to Chicago and the 84th AERA Convention.

If you are a history buff or want to trace your family history, you now have access to the same resources used by the pros – The National Archives. This collection of at least 50 million digitized douments can now be searched online.

The National Archives offers a variety of suggestions for educators include how a school might develop its own archives.

A recent New York Times article reports on the financial performance of Apple Computers. I pay attention because I happen to like the Apple operating system and feel the product is great in educational settings. It is hard to make sense of what the “analysts” say when evaluating company and stock performance. The revenues are down, but that is not too bad given the overall performance of the economy. There is some decline in what have been traditional markets for Apple (I assume education) and up in notebook sales. I am still waiting for the “pad computer” – don’t disappoint me Apple. Think different!’

Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others.” -Bill Belsey

Learn more about this topic at http://www.cyberbullying.ca/.

I admit to being artistically challenged. This is an on-going disadvantage in the work I do because of the need to offer web resources. Sometimes I try to convince myself that the appearance of online material is less important than the information provided. Sometimes I just admit I am better with words than with images and design.

Anyway, here is a resource that may help. AdaptiveView offers a free resource called ColorWrite that allows the identification of color appealing combinations.