The findings, however, were:

[...] students report that one ofthe most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education. Almost 60 percent of students who use social networking talk about education topics online and, surprisingly, more than 50 percent talk specifically about schoolwork.

Yet the vast majority of school districts have stringent rules against nearly all forms of social

networking during the school day —even though students and parents report few problem behaviors online. Indeed, both district leaders and parents believe that social networking could play a positive role in students’lives and they recognize opportunities for using it in education — at a time when teachers now routinely assign homework that requires Internet use to complete. In light ofthe study findings, [tag-tec]school[/tag-tec] districts may want to consider reexamining their policies and practices and explore ways in which they could use social networking for educational purposes.

Recommendations!

Encourage [tag-ice]social networking[/tag-ice] companies to increase educational value. Educational leaders should work with social networking companies to increase services
that are explicitly educational in nature,via informal or formal initiatives that highlight educational offerings.

Bigger Feats:
- platform cloning functionality (contents, structure, usergroups)
- RSS – token based for private RSS-feeds with very high security and different permission depending on right set (enterprise ready)
- ajax comments with the surrounding changes (flat option, etc)
- tinyMCE editor integration with all surrounding improvements (edit include, etc)
- edit include as an include option (fantastic thing -never seen this before in any app!)
- session keep alive
- ajax for boxes – open/close doesnt reload page (if available)
- multiple set permissions in a folder (new folder action)
- padmin – permissions interface redesigned, more self-explaining now

Smaller feats:
- unpublished versoins have a date now, so you can see when you created/edited it
- already read entries in the latest changes are displayed in grey
- search – filter by language and filter by unread facts only
- previous/next for folders optimised and new interface (top placed)
- new shortcut creation form, more advanced, searchable, etc
- manual edit stylesheet mode in padmin

Big jump in terms of user expierience. More to come. We are heading deep into E-Portfolio land.

[tags]firm[/tags] [tags]e-portfolio[/tags]

Pat Delaney shares A proposal for school district deployment of a CMS [via Sebastian Fiedler]

• Great example for those who want to start. It includes:
• Capabilities & benefits
• Examples
• CMS Selection & Pricing
• Security
• Training scenarios
• Infrastructure requirements
• Process for school participation

I have to check if Manila supports Cyrillic (Radio doesn’t . If so I have a great idea in mind: my monther is school principal in Russia…

Yesterday I searched for blogs in .ru and found out that blogging is taking off in my own country, but more in the “personal diary format” rather than in “k-logging format”. I really want to introduce blogging to Russian professionals and I have ideas for several projects in mind. Now it’s a matter of time and finding tools that will work in Russian. [Mathemagenic]

There are many online colleges that offer courses, such as medical billing, that you can take in the comfort of your own home. Medical coding is one great course study that is offered in phoenix universities and taking online courses allow you to go to a university without having to commute.