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	<description>K-12 Online Learning &#38; Teaching</description>
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		<title>Book Excerpt: 21st Century Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for the visit to Fresno Pacific University by Bernie Trilling, I am reading 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. I expect that I will be sharing some of the key passages with you all as I go through the book.
Here&#8217;s the first one:
One of the Chinese delegates, Mr. Zheng, appeared increasingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital textbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out here in California our governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has started a Free Digital Textbook Initiative. The theory is that too much of our California budget is spent on the print version and this is certainly true. The results, thus far, are mixed.
Yes, an initial group of textbooks have been released. Some of the textbooks do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essential Reading: The Online Learning Imperative</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to introduce a new column: Essential Reading. My thinking is that I will share both what I am reading and what comes my way.
Today&#8217;s essential reading comes by way of the good folks at iNACOL. The Online Learning Imperative: A Solution to Three Looming Crises in Education is a report from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-books for online and off-line students</title>
		<link>http://thomasnixon.com/e-books-for-online-and-off-line-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we headed toward a time when all textbooks will be digital? Absolutely. Will this happen soon? Define &#8220;soon.&#8221;
Several universities have been test-driving the Amazon Kindle this year to see how well it works for their students. Some thoughts from a USAToday.com article:
Now, as several major universities finish analyzing data from pilot programs involving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myths of Distance Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online Schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle of Higher Education has an opinion piece about the myths that are still around about distance/online learning. It is perplexing to those of us who work in the field that we can still be having these sorts of conversations. The first distance education courses were offered, what, 150 years ago? Granted, they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do we do this in K-12 Online Learning?</title>
		<link>http://thomasnixon.com/77/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two questions:

How do I know that this is a school with quality instruction and quality administration?
How do we replicate this for our online students?


Ocoee Middle School Gotta Keep Reading from Michael Cardwell on Vimeo.

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		<title>Online Teaching and Social Media</title>
		<link>http://thomasnixon.com/online-teaching-and-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting exchange with an online high school teacher who shall remain nameless. He works full-time in a school district that has a policy against &#8220;friending&#8221; current students on social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), but also works part-time for an online high school that has no such policy. He asked my opinion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: BestOnlineHighSchools.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[simply brilliant solutions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Simply Brilliant Solutions created the Best Online High Schools website and set it up with search engine optimization. They are a major reason for why the site gets the amount of traffic it gets. I was recently contacted by them to see if they could use my experience as a case study for their efforts.
If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates and Online Courses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates spent all of 2009 as the full-time co-chair of the Gates Foundation. One of the things that he now does is an annual letter.  It is always interesting to read/hear his unique take on the economy, the world, and the foundation&#8217;s projects. Something that caught my eye is an on-going project for online courses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it my site?</title>
		<link>http://thomasnixon.com/is-it-my-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tcnixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do get that if you look for online high schools on the Internet that it is entirely possible that you will eventually work yourself to me. I do have that online high schools site that so many seem to come to as well as other sites.
That being said, this site even took me aback. It [...]]]></description>
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