Thursday, June 28, 2007

Blogging is History

Great article about using blogs in the classroom from Edutopia a fantastic newsletter from the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF). You should definitely pick up their feeds. And I don't know why this post is all underlined and I can't turn it off. Oh well...

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Get TimesSelect Free

The New York Times’s restricted pages, TimesSelect, are now available free to anyone with a university email address. To gain access, simply follow this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/gst/ts_university_email_verify.html

Registering is quick and easy, and once you complete the form you’ll be able to access all sections of the NYTimes website.

NYTimes Columnist Thomas L. Friedman: The Whole World Is Watching

"When everyone is a publisher, paparazzo or filmmaker, everyone else is a public figure."

An interesting column, especially in light of the the question of what it means to be a professional educator.

By the way, as students at Stanford you can gain access to the NYTimes Select articles (usually you must be a paper subscriber to access these). Will post on how to do that, next.