heasulli's daily diigo bookmarks 05/01/2008
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Top News – Blogging helps encourage teen writing
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Blogging helps encourage teen writing
Survey reveals that student bloggers are more prolific and appreciate the value of writing more than their peers -
Buried beneath the alarm of writing “purists,” however, was a promising finding with equally important implications for schools: Blogging is helping many teens become more prolific writers.
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The survey, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project with support from the College Board and its National Commission on Writing,
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Forty-seven percent of teen bloggers write outside of school for personal reasons several times a week or more, compared with 33 percent of teens without blogs. Sixty-five percent of teen bloggers believe that writing is essential to later success in life; 53 percent of non-bloggers say the same thing.
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Save Our History – 2008/2009 Grant Program Application
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Eligible applicants are required to be nonprofit 501(c)(3) history organizations such as a museum, historical society, preservation organization, historic site, library, archive, or other history organization;
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Eligible applicants must submit the application on behalf of their partner school(s) or educational organization(s) as the school(s) or educational organization(s) are not eligible to be the applicant; and
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Applicants must design a project in partnership with a local school(s) or youth group(s). To view descriptions of Save Our History projects funded in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 please visit http://www.saveourhistory.com.
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1. Proposed projects must focus on exploring and preserving a significant aspect of community history.
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2. Proposed projects must raise awareness among students and community members about the significance of their local heritage and the importance of preserving it.
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3. Proposed projects must include a tangible resource that captures students’ effort to learn about and preserve their local history in a unique, creative way.
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ABC News: $100 Laptop Program Falls on Hard Times
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A key person behind the “$100 laptop” for schoolchildren has left the project as the organization overhauls its operations and prepares to tweak its open-source approach by welcoming Microsoft Corp.’s Windows.
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Then last week, Bender left the group entirely. That marked a third high-profile departure from OLPC. In addition to Krstic, Mary Lou Jepsen, who had been chief technology officer, left in December.
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But Bender already has new plans: to launch an independent effort to further the development of the XOs’ homegrown software, known as Sugar, and get it to run on Linux computers other than XOs.
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