School Is Haven When Children Have No Home
With unemployment and spiraling housing costs pushing a growing number of families into homelessness, school systems across the country are seeing more and more children like Mariah living in shelters, cars or motels. Some states are reporting a nearly 50 percent increase in homeless students over the last year.
An article from the New York Times on how schools are increasing becoming a resource of last resort for students of families facing homelessness and poverty.
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SixApart Announcements…
The great news is that we’ve got a new version of Movable Type planned for release in the next couple months that is a response to the sort of features and requests we’ve been hearing from our current users and other webloggers. Because of the success of TypePad and our ability to staff up, we’re working on releasing more features in the basic Movable Type package and concentrating the features needed for businesses, organizations and large content-driven sites into Movable Type Pro. [Six Log]
It looks like there will be an upgrade to Moveable Type in the near future. Am hoping that a lot of the features that they have put into Typepad show up in Moveable Type. I’m also looking for tools such as those available in add on plug-ins such as MTMedic. These allow for an administrator to do global administration tasks on a MovableType installation.
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Cyprien Lomas Discover SubEthaEdit (formerly Hydra)
One of the folks I met this weekend at edBlogger was Cyprien Lomas. He a Research Associate with Skylight: The Science Centre for Learning and Teaching at the Faculty of Science at University of British Columbia. Cyprien was one of the folks using SubEthaEdit to take collaborative notes during the sessions. It was kind of fun to be sitting up on the panel talking and at the same time watch as people take notes on what was being said.
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Pat lists some of the things he learned at edBlogger “03. Pat did an excellent job organizing and staging this event. As he mentions, using his school really helped to keep costs down, and the generous support of other organizations helped to make the whole thing very enjoyable and worthwhile.
Thor Prichard and Paul Bradley created a weblog that helped capture the sessions and conversations, and also has some great pictures.
It was great to be able to have an opportunity to come together and share our experiences. Thanks to all that made this possible.
Notes from the Sunday EdBlogger panels taken using SubEthaEdit (formerly Hydra) can be found at…cogent life…
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Am thinking I’ve dropped my camera phone one too many times…
