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IMPORTANT NOTICE regarding Ray’s blogs

Dear Readers — Thank you for your loyal support of this curated reading blog. I have been publishing this from UIS on a variety of blog platforms dating back nearly 20 years. As I now phase down my appointment at UIS after 44 years, I am consolidating my work. This is to let you know […]

Blended learning is brighter, broader, and here to stay

Dana Corey, eCampus News With COVID-19 vaccines successfully rolling out to larger percentages of the population, a majority of colleges and universities will be bringing their students, faculty, and staff back to campus this fall. This naturally begs the question: what will they be returning to? Though exclusive on-site schooling would represent a return to […]

Accessibility Gains Must Become Lasting Learning Practices

Raghu Krishnaiah and Kelly Hermann, Inside Higher Ed We must broaden our focus to create inclusive learning environments that recognize and remove barriers, creating a more equitable system for all. For too long, colleges and universities have waited for students with disabilities to request accommodations before deciding to remove barriers to access and full participation […]

Medical schools should know about these online teaching resources

Tmothy M. Smith, AMA In the wake of COVID-19, the need for high-quality e-learning resources for undergraduate medical education accelerated as instructors and medical students adapted to the new learning environment. The AMA has developed a robust program that includes engaging, high-quality and interactive modules to easily fill emerging curricular gaps and support tracking of […]

Academic Cheating: Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed In recent months we have frequently seen reports of cheating among students at colleges, universities and even military academies. Is this entirely the fault of students or are faculty contributing to the problem by emphasizing rote memory of facts, figures and formulas? The anecdotal reports of more cheating in online […]

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School / Work Affiliation: Earl L. Vandermuelen High School

Skype Account: rmhagan22

About Me: I am an experienced teacher in the state of New York. Most recently, I began a career in administration at a north shore school on Long Island. Currently, I am an Assistant Principal for both a middle school and high school. I have provided many professional development opportunities for staff including smart board training, website creation, collegial circles on wiki’s, podcasts, and bogging. I invest munch of my time in school building leadership activities, while pursuing a life long journey in the field of education. Recently I have been working with several colleagues in the setup and distribution of information surrounding a more collaborative approach to instruction.

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At 12:29pm on April 24, 2009, Jack said…: Hey RHagan,

Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

Do you mind passing my message along to students and your colleagues again?

Thanks,
Jack

At 9:53pm on January 20, 2009, Jack said…: Cool, thanks!

At 9:36pm on January 11, 2009, Jack said…: Hi RHagan!

Hope you had a nice winter break. I was wondering if you or your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. We'd really like to get students involved from NY!

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 3:04am on December 27, 2008, Andy Pethan said…: Hello,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Andy Pethan. I am a 21 year old student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin students (near Boston) who is taking a year off to pursue our interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, bringing us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school", and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested. Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. We hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.

Our team is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.

Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!

Thanks,
Andy Pethan
rockychat3@gmail.com

At 10:11pm on January 25, 2008, RHagan said…: The 21st century has provided education with a unique opportunity to educate our students. We are charged with the resposiblity of educating students to meet the depends of careers that have yet to exist.