While there is still some minor work being done, for the most part, Virtual School News is up and running again. It will be offering significantly more news about online schools and related subjects. I hope you will take a look at VSN 2.0.
If you are one of the several thousand folks that follow VirtualSchoolNews.com, yes, it is temporarily down. I am doing a serious upgrade to the site that should result in more and better articles and information. Check back in 48 hours or so. It should be done by then.
Some increased functionality happening over at Online Synthesis. My friend, Bob Martin, figured out a way to get the outbound links to open in their own window. Clearly, this is preferable for a variety of reasons, but the WordPress theme was not set up to do that. If your goal is to keep folks on [...]
Yesterday, at my online high schools site, I had less traffic in one day than I have had since 2007 when I launched the site. I am not sure at all why that might be. Traffic was seriously down. When I saw it inside the cPanel, I actually went to the website to make sure [...]
You may recall that I mentioned a super-secret surprise? It is mostly completed, so you get to be among the first to see it. It is a brand-new website that pulls in RSS feeds about online high schools, online colleges, and educational technology. The name? Online Synthesis. I hope that you will consider taking a look. [...]
If you have been wondering where I have been of late, I have been putting in great amounts of time on the day job. Most of you know that I coordinate online learning for a large urban school district. Well, my efforts over the last year are finally getting some traction. We begin to offer [...]
As part of Edutopia’s Schools That Work section of their website, they now offer The Brave New Breakthrough in Online Learning. It is a collection resources and information related to K-12 online learning. Key quote: A U.S. Department of Education analysis of more than 40 studies, including five focused on K-12 pupils, found that “students [...]
Borrowed from one of the funnier places on the planet.
I regularly have several projects going on at the same time. One very cool and very secret project came to initial fruition today. My district, Fresno Unified School District, was selected to be one of four districts within California to be part of a pilot of iPads. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and Apple are providing [...]
CSU Fresno professors are requiring students to purchase iClickers to use in the classroom.
