Category: Personal Blog

  • The ONE Campus Challenge

    The ONE Campus Challenge. The OCC Blog is a daily log of the ONE Campus Challenge, a friendly competition to determine which university‘s student body has the most effective global poverty-fighting campaign. The site is operated by ONE staff, Campus Outreach Ambassadors (COAs), and Campus Leaders. The content of each post represents the views of…

  • New school year blues

    I know many teachers who get the itch to teach again in mid July. Days always seem a little odd without the segmented bell schedules or the socializing of 200+ adolescents. For me, this came into sharp contrast as I began the school. My new big idea would be using Twitter as a means to…

  • iPads for Middle Schoolers: California District Rolls Out Mobile Devices for Fall Semester — THE Journal

    Image via Wikipedia iPads for Middle Schoolers: California District Rolls Out Mobile Devices for Fall Semester — THE Journal. Several school districts nationwide have begun trial programs using this new technology. This CA middle is not the first just the newest. Below are some oher articles relating to edutech. Related articles by Zemanta Avery Middle…

  • Jessica Alba on education for all

    Read this great article about eduction on the other side of the world Jessica Alba on education for all: ONE just returned from a listening and learning trip to Senegal, Ghana, Mozambique and Kenya with members of our board and other supporters. Below, Jessica Alba talks about 1GOAL and the campaign to provide education to…

  • Open Letter to Rep Ben Chandler, Sen. Jim Bunning, and Sen Mitch McConnell

    I am disappointed and alarmed regarding the proposed elimination of the National Writing Project’s federal funding from the current Education Appropriation Bill. This program, by far, leads the way in constructive, not vogue, academic growth at a grassroots level. Every year over 100,000 teachers are involved in more than 3 million hours of training, planning,…

  • A Brief History of Pi – PCWorld

    Image by Mykl Roventine via Flickr Happy Pi Day! A Brief History of Pi – PCWorld: “Egyptians calculated pi using pyramids (or did they calculate pyramids using pi?), Archimedes busted out the 96-gon, Zhu Chongzhi one-upped him with a 12,288-gon (or is that 12,192-upped him?), Ferguson calculated 620 digits by hand, and the University of…