SchoolNet Toolkit: Laid out in four substantive guidebooks, this kit is targeted especially towards policy- and decision-makers, school managers, practitioners, teachers and principals. Guidebook One provides a general overview and discusses how ICTs have been understood to improve the value and quality of education. Guidebook Two looks at planning a schoolnet programme, in terms of […]

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The answer to the student evaluation problem!: This is beautiful. It’s a simple, elegant solution, the Jedi mind trick: ———– classic, i’ve actually had similar experience. i explain several time how my grading system is the fairest to everyone, and i always get at the end of the class comments that i’m remarkably fair. but […]

$25,000 for a CMS??? You’ve got to be kidding!: In Oh, What a Tangled Web…, University Business has a feature describing the need for content management systems on college campuses. Only wait? The feature focuses almost exclusively on expensive proprietary systems. Can’t imagine that any CMS is worth $25,000 plus $5,000 a year in maintenance […]

Proposed Law on Bankruptcy Has Loophole ….: Proposed Law on Bankruptcy Has Loophole. A proposed law being debated by the Senate leaves open a loophole that lets wealthy people protect assets from creditors even after filing for bankruptcy. By GRETCHEN MORGENSON. [NYT > Business] I feel so much better now that I know the wealthy […]

New Scientist Breaking News – Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon: “I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research,” says Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, UK. “Even if the use of temporary severe pain can be justified as a restraining measure, […]

The Decembrist: How Social Security Phase-Out Makes Republicans: Now, there is another way that Social Security privatization could create Republicans, and I think this is actually closer to what’s on the mind of the less utopian strategists. (That is, those not named “Gingrich” or “Kemp.”) It’s the negative: they believe Social Security creates Democrats, by […]

Wallace and Gromit Ride Again: Wallace and Gromit have a movie coming out this fall, The Curse of the WereRabbit! There’s a trailer and also a short about the making of the movie accessible via clicking “video” at this site. The short is spoiled by some pretty dorky narration, but it will interest true fans. […]

i put the new website up today… Association of Internet Researchers