Friday, April 3, 2009

WashingtonWatch.com - H.R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

WashingtonWatch.com - H.R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009: "H.R. 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (78 comments ↓ | 4 wiki edits: view article ↓)

H.R. 875 would establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination."

Thursday, April 2, 2009

An Interview with Michael Wesch | EDUCAUSE

An Interview with Michael Wesch | EDUCAUSE: "This podcast features our full thirty-minute interview with Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. In the past few years he has distinguished himself with unique perspectives on teaching and his use of multimedia in the classroom. In 2008 he was awarded the CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year Award for Doctoral and Research Universities. In this interview, Wesch talks about fame and micro-celebrity, teaching in the cloud, collective intelligence, and teaching in an age of budget cuts."

Friday, February 20, 2009

EsnTV

EsnTV Video news for Today's K-12 Educator.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Brain-training games 'do more harm than good' - Telegraph

Brain-training games 'do more harm than good' - Telegraph

The Great Debate » Debate Archive » First 100 Days: Harness the genie of citizen engagement | The Great Debate |

The Great Debate » Debate Archive » First 100 Days: Harness the genie of citizen engagement | The Great Debate |: "There are lots of Internet-enabled ways to engage America, from policy wikis, citizen juries, deliberative polling, ideation contests, and virtual town halls. I call one of the most promising the digital brainstorm. This is an online way to bring together policy officials and citizens in a real-time, moderated session, to exchange ideas and identify new policy issues and strategies and to mobilize the citizenry."