Domestic Blog (Weber School District)

Weber School District of Utah had a very interesting blog. This school district use their blog for teachers to reach out to students and parents. There blog was broken down into categories. One category was technolgy blog, career and technical blog, and support blog. Here is a sample copy from their career and technical blog......

CTE stands for Career and Technical Education, however in Weber School District CTE most often stands for Career and Technical Experience! Our teachers work extremely hard at making the education our students receive much more than just an education, but more of an experience that will help propel them towards a successful career and life! Our pre-engineering, Project Lead the Way senior students have just completed their final EDD (Engineering Design and Development) class and were able to have a fantastic culminating learning experience because of the cooperation of Autoliv, which is one of our cooperating business partners for Project Lead the Way.

CTE stands for Career and Technical Education, however in Weber School District CTE most often stands for Career and Technical Experience! Our teachers work extremely hard at making the education our students receive much more than just an education, but more of an experience that will help propel them towards a successful career and life! Our pre-engineering, Project Lead the Way senior students have just completed their final EDD (Engineering Design and Development) class and were able to have a fantastic culminating learning experience because of the cooperation of Autoliv, which is one of our cooperating business partners for Project Lead the Way.

Domestic Blog(Arizona)

I visited the blog site of Arizona school district....the name of the blog is Arizona.com. The teacher for the blog had the blog broken down......the teacher had an opening summary blog and an option for the visitor to go into the site to read more blogs if desire. Read the following....it is a sample copy from the Arizona k-12 blog:

A K12 vice president confirmed that AZVA sent papers written by middle school and high school students to India to be scored and commented on. It seems unlikely to me the practice was confined to just one school. After all, in July, 2007, K12 filed a letter of intent to acquire Socratic Learning, the company hired to do the outsourcing. You wouldn't likely consider buying a company unless you were planning to make extensive use of its services.

Google Rumored GDrive

It seems like a cool idea. It would be convenient, but at the same time it would not be as personal as your own PC. With the GDrive, it's like, google behind the scene, has access to your personal data even though someone else may not have your password. I believe even if the GDrive hits the market, it will still be the consumers choice. We would still have the option to purchase our own computer. I truly don't believe that computer companies would stop selling computers to individuals to only serve the google participants.

Changing the way we think

The Internet itself has spoiled people. To some extent, I do believe, a great a majority of people think differently now days then before the Internet became popular. Before the Internet, we had to think, and research by hand and our minds were stimulated and purposely focused. Now days, we have the Internet to be our minds; in some from few typed key words, we have basically what we are looking for with our minds lying dormant and unfortunately becoming idol.

ACCESS

I believe the Access inititative is a great program. It gives the student a greater opportunity to succeed. A remarkable opportunity is that the Access program is extended to students with special needs. The program has it's accountability, making it more sufficient for everyone. An example would be that the school system has their responsibility in keeping the communication lines open between the special education teacher and the e-teacher. The program, also give the opportunity for special education students to attend summer school. Overall, the Access Inititative is a great success for the entire school community.