Blackboard Blogs

2006 Education Blog Awards Announced

Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Education Blog Awards announced last week by eSchool News and Discovery Education.  The winners are:

Best Classroom Instruction Blog for Teachers:  Assorted Stuff
by Tim Stahmer, an Instructional Technology Specialist for Fairfax County, Virginia Public Schools. 

Best Classroom Instruction Blog for Students:  Applied Science Research
by Frank LaBanca, a Science Teacher at Newton High School in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Best Education Theory Blog:  Moving at the Speed of Creativity
by Wesley Fryer, Director of Instructional Support Services at Texas Tech University, College of Education.

Best K-12 Administration Blog:  EduWonk
by Andrew Rotherham the Co-founder and Co-director of Education Sector a nonprofit, independent research and analysis organization.

Best Instructional Blog for Teachers:  MacKenty.org
by Bill MacKenty, Computer Science Teacher at Edgartown Elementary School on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts

More on the Greenhouse Winners

We had a chance to glimpse the winners of the Greenhouse Communities of Practice a couple of weeks ago. This week, we’ll be looking at the Exemplary Course Award Winners. Today we’ll look at the winners of the Exemplary Non-Course (i.e. professional development or other use of Blackboard outside the classroom) and Online Course (80% or greater online) categories.

Peering into the Digital Content Crystal Ball with Joe Esposito

Joe Esposito bills himself as the Portable CEO.  Having piloted Britannica through the early and rocky shores of producing digital product, having headed two of the largest reference divisions and more recently working with non-profits like SRI and open source advocates at the Mellon Foundation, Esposito has a unique perspective.  Ask anyone in the digital content field and they will tell you they know the name, but not the person.  Esposito is a constant presence in Web circles about content.  Joe is often asked by digital publishers to hone their businesses and hired by traditional publishers to build their digital bridge. 

GF:  What are the market pressures behind digital content and what are the assumptions about the use of digital materials – academic and scholarly?