tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134229002010-03-04T16:03:41.385-08:00Calvin Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11899483218291241507noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13422900.post-1138583629133361932006-01-29T17:07:00.000-08:002006-01-29T17:13:49.143-08:00

This coming Tueday, we're starting a new round of literacy training at Vintage High School. In order to support it, I've created a blog over at WordPress.com, a wonderful free, collaboration tool for us to use.At the Vintage High Literacy Committee, you'll find links to literacy resources on the Net, as well as links to graphic organizers and Cornell Notes templates, which is the theme for our

Calvin Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11899483218291241507noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13422900.post-1132109203208850142005-11-15T18:33:00.000-08:002005-12-22T09:33:30.476-08:00

My colleagues and I at Vintage High School are undergoing a year of professional development in the area of literacy, and the process is definitely doing us good. In our latest session, we were reminded to look back and make connections with the past two sessions.That caused me to look at how I not only could -- with prodding -- remember the training but also realize I'd almost unconsciously

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I've really found a lot of value in the literacy training meetings we've been having recently at Vintage High. It's occurred to me -- once I realized the need for sources of graphic organizers on the Web -- that it would be valuable for teachers to have links to the best sites for such things as Cornell Notes, Venn diagrams, KWL charts, and what-not.I loved the PDFs I found at Education Place's

Calvin Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11899483218291241507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13422900.post-1126586729459150772005-09-12T21:42:00.000-07:002005-09-12T21:45:29.466-07:00

Education Week, a magazine I've been following and delving into for years, continues to be a source of information for teachers, administrators and specialists alike.Click here to access the site. You may need to register in order to enjoy the fine articles and resources on everything from the Law & Courts to No Child Left Behind.

Calvin Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11899483218291241507noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13422900.post-1126144190038652212005-09-07T18:34:00.000-07:002005-09-07T19:05:33.103-07:00

Following the link to the Statewide Education Technology Services offers a reminder of some very good technology resources for education.Though the TechSETS site speaks of fours SETS services, the California Department of Education seems to have pared it down to three. One of them, the California Learning Resource Network, is well-known to me. the CLRN supplies "a one-stop information source

Calvin Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11899483218291241507noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13422900.post-1126142463610323092005-09-01T18:04:00.000-07:002005-09-07T19:09:57.970-07:00

My friend Eric Rosburg, IT director over at Napa County Office of Education, let me in on one of the best kept secrets in educational tech support: Rarely touted Imperial County Office of Education has some of the best technology support resources available anywhere in the country. In conjunction with San Diego County Office of Education, Imperial County presents TechSETS, which is "focused on

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If I had one chore over the summer that grew tiresome, it was searching through the Development Resources in order to replace all the broken ERIC links, which were replaced by The Educator's Reference Desk.The new site is a perfectly fine replacement for the now defunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology - a fixture in the education world for over thirty years and the brainchild of

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I've got a link to Technology Counts 2005 on the Educational Research page in Development Resources. It was a replacement for an older link to Technology Counts 2001. But I've found that all of these splendid reports over the years by EdWeek have a lot to recommend them. To read them, just pop the name into a Google search by year and find the link. For example, the keywords Technology Counts

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I've finally come to my senses and switched to Blogger to create and maintain EDblog. I expect the change to help me make these resources an even more useful set of tools for members of the Napa Valley teaching community, as well as for the greater community of teachers nationwide.Please feel free to comment on any posts, and I especially invite you to add to our extensive academic subject and

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