New ed.gov site - Doing What Works

Doing What Works is definitely worth a look. You can subscribe and will be alerted as updates/new curricular areas are added to the site. At present there are videos, templates and white papers concerned with ELL.

Alternate Route to Certification for Library-Media Specialists

There's still time to register for the next cohort...applications are due February 1st.

...All the information that need to know including applications are only a click away. Do you know anyone thinking of becoming a LMS? Download the ARCLMS brochure.

Does your AUP address the new Web 2.0 technologies?

Does your acceptable use policy address blogs, wikis or chat rooms? If it does and you would like to share, please e-mail me a copy. I'll distribute it through the RESCs to all of their technology council members. If you're in the process of revisitng your AUP, take a look at Louisiana's Franklin Parish AUP .

MySpace To Change Child Safety Measures

January 14, 2008 - A social-networking Web site targeted by almost every state in the country agrees to new authentication and identity verification measures. MySpace.com has reached agreement with officials in nearly every state to add extensive measures aimed at combating sexual predators. Attorneys General Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Roy Cooper, D-N.C., on behalf of 49 states and the District of Columbia, announced the agreement with the huge online social networking Web site on Monday.