It’s a little know fact that there are different types of quotation marks, apostrophes and primes (or tick marks for feet and inches or minutes and seconds). Well, really there are just two kinds: the good kind and the bad kind.

These are my Jumptags for March 30th Five Best Mind Mapping Applications – Mind mapping is a great way to add structure to brainstorming sessions and visualize your ideas. Check out the applications your fellow readers use to do their best brainstorming. Project Management definitions – List of project management terms and definitions. dimdim – dimdim offers a free service [...]

These are my Jumptags for March 19th through March 26th: Twouble with Twitters – A young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away.From: "SuperNews!" An animated sketch comedy series airing on Current TV.Every … iSpring Free – Free PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation [...]

Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger is launching a series of posts for the month of April: 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. While it might sound like an April Fool’s joke to start on April 1st, it’s not. Each day, you’ll receive a new email with thoughts and tips. Darren says, he’s going to focus on doing this year.

It’s interesting to me how little time we devote in schools to teaching critical thinking. Lots of folks seem to think it’s important (for example, funders like NSF, multiple consumer and or/business groups’ reporting on what schools should do, professional organizations like ISTE, AECT, AERA, and NRC), but that does not seem to translate into a tangible focus in schools on helping learners acquire such skills.

These are my Jumptags for March 19th Changing Classroom Practice to Include the Project Approach – Project work involves content, products, and processes. Teacher educators may notice that those new to project work adopt ideas and practices related to content and products more readily than they adopt ideas and practices related to the processes em… Exploring middle school students’ use [...]

News by way of fave-blog site Lifehacker, Internet Explorer 8 will be released out of beta testing today. It’s supposed to be standards compliant from the get-go (Thank God and we’ll see), and it’s supposed to have options for rendering to IE7 or IE6 (but who’d want to?– see “Bring down IE6″). It’s also supposed to be faster. I encourage you to check it out, particularly if your workplace isn’t giving in to Firefox.

by Jongpil Cheon

The faculty members in instructional technology program were invited to visit some classrooms by a technology support team of a school district. All the classes we visited in two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school were using a Smartboard and clickers (classroom response system). In the discussion session, the main request from the technology support team was that these tools should be in pre-service teacher curriculum.

These are my Jumptags for March 16th through March 17th: The Future of Open Source CMS – by 23 Web Designers & Developers – Open Source Content Management Systems are the most used for almost any kind of site on the web. All of us have been using these systems and sure will continue using them. Well, the Future of [...]

By way of the Kreativuse blog,I heard about “Bring Down IE 6,” a campaign to encourage web designers and developers to put IE6 out to pasture (or straight on to the glue factory as the metaphor lends). The inconsistency among browsers and platforms for HTML and CSS is ludicrous. Adding hacks to support a variety of browsers is pretty much the norm. Well, Bring Down IE 6 is one effort to stop a small portion of the madness.