Press releases, photos, and more from Secretary Spellings’ three-day No Child Left Behind bus tour. More: continued here

Secretary Spellings delivered remarks at the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Conference on Youth and Education in the Hispanic Community. More: continued here

Secretary Spellings will lead a presidential delegation to the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, China, on Oct. 2, 2007, and participate in a Global Policy Summit on the Well-Being of People with Intellectual Disabilities. More: continued here

Back in August, I was one of the reviewers for an upcoming (2008) on electronic gaming in education. For more details on the book, reviewers, and timeline following the link here.The reviewing process was interesting and the content of the chapters had a lot of potential. I’m sure I’ll end up blogging about it once [...]

In my first post on GOM, about a month ago, I laid out the initial components of Amory’s Game Object Model. The model itself appears adaptable and I’ve started to adapt it by adjusting the model for traditional lesson plans. My fantasy football GOM lesson plan was a good start and really helped change the [...]

All the powerpoints and pdf’s of the fulltext versions of EAHIL Workshop 2007 in Krakow are now online!Here are my favourites:Artur Furtado (European Commission, DG SANCO, Luxembourg) (where is his ppt?)Health Information and eHealth in the EUAndrew Booth (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom).New Breed or Different Species: is the 21st Century Health Information Professional Generic [...]

Tonight as millions of video game fans line up to collect their copies of Halo 3 at retailers, specialty shops and even 7-11′s around the nation, I want to talk about Halo in a different context. As players go home tonight and work there way through the final chapter of the Master Chief storyline they [...]

I prepared some material for a discussion in Second Life about information literacy in different disciplines. It was mostly notes, but I added a few references and resources, including:ACRL’s Information Literacy in the disciplines page. (This has pages for a number of disciplines, with links to any discipline-specific IL frameworks and a selection of discipline-specific [...]

LeAnn Suchy, Reference & Information Literacy Librarian at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University Clemens Library in St. Joseph, Minnesota writes:I was one of the people attending your speech at the MN Library 2.0 Summit in Roseville on the 14th of this month. I mentioned information about PBwiki and you asked me to write [...]

‘$100 laptop’ to sell to publicThe organisation behind the project has launched the “give one, get one” scheme that will allow US residents to purchase two laptops for $399 (£198).One laptop will be sent to the buyer whilst a child in the developing world will receive the second machineThe G1G1 scheme, as it is known, [...]