Consolidating More References

I am consolidating references from recent assignments created during my last few classes. NCU will switch from APA version 5 to APA version 6 in January 2010, so the references are listed in a text format. Web sites, books, and articles are consolidated and this blog post will be used as I progress through the disseration phase. Any of the research/scholarly articles were found in many of the databases through NCU's library, referenced in the Research Strategies blog post and connections through Twitter.

This list is not all inclusive, simply a blog post with many references which may or may not be used in future assignments. Any of the books listed are also linked in my Google Books library if they are available in Google Books. Please feel free to comment and provide recommendations or improvements as you read through the post.

One of the fun things students are required to do in the dissertation process are Annotated Bibliographies and Literature Reviews. As always recommendations are welcome.

Evans, J. (2009). Congressional Briefing: Release of Speak Up 2008 National Findings. Project Tomorrow. Retrieved from: http://www.slideshare.net/ProjectTomorrow/release-of-speak-up-2008-national-findings

Georgia Department of Education. (2009). Report Cards 2007-2008 for Richmond County. Retrieved from: http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ReportingFW.aspx?PageReq=102&CountyId=721&T=1&FY=2008

Google Apps for Education. (2009). What’s Included? Retrieved from: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/included.html

Google Apps for Education. (2009). Webinars, Case Studies, and Q&A Sessions. Retrieved from: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/resource_center.html

Google Apps for Education. (2009). Why Apps? Retrieved from: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/sell.html

Google For Educators. (2009). Google web search - classroom lessons and resources. Retrieved from: http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html

Google Teacher Academy. (2009). Resources - tools. Retrieved from: http://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/tools

Intermediate School. (2009). Dot-to-Dot: A Global Learning Reception. Retrieved from: http://sites.google.com/site/339dottodot/

International Standards for Technology Education (ISTE). (2009). National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). Retrieved from: http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS

PBS. Digital Nation. (2009). How Google Saved a School. Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/how-google-saved-a-school.html

Prince George's County Public Schools (PGCPS). (2009). PGCPS has been Googlized. Retrieved from: https://sites.google.com/a/pgcps.org/googlized/Home

Richmond County School System. (2008). Performance Review of Richmond County School System. Retrieved from: http://www.rcboe.org/www/rcboe/site/hosting/Daily%20Announcements/MGTSurvey.pdf

Windham, C. (2005). Father Google & Mother IM: Confessions of a net gen learner. EDUCAUSE Review, 40(5), 42-58. Retrieved from: http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume40/FatherGoogleandMotherIMConfess/158005

Any additional recommended readings?

Who is the family communication collaborator in your family?

Who is your family communications collaborator? When was the last time you updated your contact info?

Early this morning my mother was in a car accident. Not her fault and she was not scheduled to work today...just required to attend a mandatory meeting. First message was at 6 AM I could hear noises in the background but figured she was at her workplace and accidentally hit the phone to call me. The first words of the message were, "Do not drive home, just call J, I am OK, car is totaled." When I did speak to her for a minute, I could tell the pain medication was working.

I started with messages to family and friends telling them I would keep everyone updated but keep the calls to the minimum because she was in the emergency room. Thankfully, I have some awesome neighbors in Augusta (Thanks Ron and Dot). They went to visit my mother in the hospital, where she had been admitted but was out of the room for a cat scan. After she returned, they called me from her room and I could hear her in good spirits in the background. DD showed up later and took a picture. As promised, I did not post the picture for the world to see but did share it with a few family members who have data plans on their phones and email for those who do not.

So it turns out, she has a broken leg and a possible fracture in the C2 vertebrate. My mother is also the oldest of 14 children, so you can only imagine the number of family members. Using a variety of tools, we all seem to connect when one family member or another needs thoughts, prayers, recognition, and/or thanks...but you can imagine the diversity of options to contact everyone. Thankfully I have two proactive aunts (Thanks Aunt Laura & Aunt Lois) geographically separated but keep connected to multiple family members primarily through email or voice calls.

So between GMail w/Gchat and video, Twitter, blip.fm, Facebook, and minimum number of voice phone calls the message was distributed. When I looked at the various tools used I wondered, "Who is the family communications collaborator in your network? Who would have been left out of the information loop if only one method of communication was used? When was the last time you updated your family contact information with family, school, or place of employment?"

Donors Choose $25 - What project should I donate to?

On September 19, 2009, Richmond County School System (RCSS) hosted a community summit on the issue of dropout prevention with a grant made possible by America’s Promise Alliance.

Everyone who attended received an email with an opportunity to complete a survey which in turn would provide attendees with a $25.00 Donors Choose credit to donate to a project.

I received my email and went to select a project in RCSS to donate the $25.00...but no educators in the RCSS have registered a project. So I sent an email to my school board member, the Superintendent, and finally the Public Information Director (PID). I also created the RCSS Dropout Prevention Ning and posted the same request there...Where is everyone donating the $25 Donors Choose credit?

The only response I received was from the PID stating he would look into it. So I am throwing the question to the net...the neighboring county has 2 projects, 17 projects from the schools I attended growing up, 80 projects in the county where my daughter attended HS in FL. Donors Choose has many projects and you can tailor the selection of projects using a multitude of options.

So where do I apply this $25 donation?