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Entries from January 2009

Ada Lovelace Day

January 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’m blogging this.
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Thanks to Alfred Thompson I’ve heard the challenge of blogging on March 24, 2009 – Ada Lovelace Day – in celebration of women in technology.
Ada Lovelace Day was started by Suw Charman-Anderson. The challenge is to build a catalog of female role models by blogging about them on March 24, [...]

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Tags: women in technology

U.S. and Scotland have one – should Canada follow suit?

January 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments

For some time I have been frustrated by the limited research data available in the Canadian context relative to the American context. I attributed this to population size, until now.
I believe the issue is constitutional. Let me explain.
[note: The following sentence appeared in the original post. It is a factual error - while the presence [...]

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Tags: educational technology · schools

Parent Portal Guide takes shape

January 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments

photo credit: carf
I’ve developed a draft outline for the K-12 Parent Portal Implementation Guide. The Guide will be developed online at Parent 2.0 Interactive. The major sections of the Guide (in the current draft) are:

Introduction
About School Community
Current State – District and School
Technology Tools Today
Issues
Building the Site
Technical Support
Launching the Site

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Tags: educational technology · parentengagement · parents · schools · social software · technical support