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"Open Source for Education" End-of-Life: What Happened?

We received two comments requesting that we continue publishing our Open Source for Education articles.

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Open Source for Education: Last Article

The Open Source for Education section of the Classroom Toolkit Newsletter has reached its "end of life" stage.

The Model of the Modern Safe...

We are rebuilding our site and wonder if teachers want solutions based on lessons learned from the "modern safe."

The Open Source Playbook: School District Marketing Strategies for Failure...

Open Source Solutions present great opportunities for teachers and students. Open Source benefits include teaching and learning tools, measurable teacher and student progress accelerators and strategies that focus upon instructional improvement targets.

Technology Integration and Open Source Marketing

We have produced a "switchboard page" (like a Table of Contents) to consolidate the materials that we wrote for the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) "Birds of a Feather" Wiki.

Teachers to IT Departments: You have Professional Development Homework

One of the reasons that the Technology Integration movement failed to provide a Return on Investment(ROI) commensurate with the huge amounts of money that was spent is that adequate professional development of the right kind was seldom funded or delivered.

Preparing for the Summer

While most members of the general public believe that teachers are well paid (i.e., teachers make more than they do), and that teachers receive three (3) months of paid vacation; we know that teachers spend the summer gearing up for the next school year (without compensation).

Teachers to IT Departments: You have Network and Back-End Programming Homework

It is an ethical question. When teachers know that students can't (or won't) complete homework assignments, should teachers "pile" the homework on anyway?