Author: grabe

It is end of the semester for me and time to grade student papers. A recent TechTV feature investigated advanced advances in software for grading essays. The software “learns” the basics of good composition.

Try this online exam based on the U.S. Citizenship Quiz.

Education World describes a recent interview with John Bailey in which various roles for technology in “No Child Left Behind” are outlined. Information of federal grant programs is included.

eSchool News has a recent article describing a case in which a teacher is being considered for dismissal because of inappropriate material on a personal web page (humor content of a sexual nature adapted from a comedy site). To complicate the case, it appears the teacher had created the page some years prior to taking the teaching position.

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.