Comments on: Google Education: Too New for School? http://academicaesthetic.com/2006/10/31/310/ Art. Education. Technology. Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:38:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen Wakefield http://academicaesthetic.com/2006/10/31/310/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Stephen Wakefield Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:42:55 +0000 http://academicaesthetic.com/2006/10/31/310/#comment-79 In the spirit of full disclosure, I want to mention from the outset that I am a Discovery Education employee working with the Discovery Educators Network. I just wanted to add one point to the Art Guy's post: Discovery is now offering students the opportunity to succeed academically while raising money for their school. This program is called Learning Adds UP, which you can find at www.learningaddsup.com. Briefly, Learning Adds UP is a unique fundraising partnership between participating schools and Discovery Education. Through Learning Adds UP, schools promote student achievement with COSMEO (www.cosmeo.com) the new homework help tool from the Discovery Channel, while raising money for their school. Through this program up to 25% of COSMEO subscription fees to go to the school or organization of your choice. That is money that can be used by schools for anything: New sports equipment, science labs, instructional technology, whatever. Visit www.learningaddsup.com for more information and to sign your school up. In the spirit of full disclosure, I want to mention from the outset that I am a Discovery Education employee working with the Discovery Educators Network.

I just wanted to add one point to the Art Guy’s post: Discovery is now offering students the opportunity to succeed academically while raising money for their school. This program is called Learning Adds UP, which you can find at http://www.learningaddsup.com.

Briefly, Learning Adds UP is a unique fundraising partnership between participating schools and Discovery Education. Through Learning Adds UP, schools promote student achievement with COSMEO (www.cosmeo.com) the new homework help tool from the Discovery Channel, while raising money for their school. Through this program up to 25% of COSMEO subscription fees to go to the school or organization of your choice.

That is money that can be used by schools for anything: New sports equipment, science labs, instructional technology, whatever.

Visit http://www.learningaddsup.com for more information and to sign your school up.

]]> By: theartguy http://academicaesthetic.com/2006/10/31/310/comment-page-1/#comment-78 theartguy Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:56:38 +0000 http://academicaesthetic.com/2006/10/31/310/#comment-78 Indeed it would, or so I hope! Thanks for the comment, John. It looks like you have a lot of nice pictures on your blog & Flickr account - I just had to use one, since Flickr let me and I wanted a pic that would reference Discovery. Indeed it would, or so I hope!

Thanks for the comment, John. It looks like you have a lot of nice pictures on your blog & Flickr account – I just had to use one, since Flickr let me and I wanted a pic that would reference Discovery.

]]> By: John http://academicaesthetic.com/2006/10/31/310/comment-page-1/#comment-77 John Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:50:56 +0000 http://academicaesthetic.com/2006/10/31/310/#comment-77 I'm glad you found my flickr image of the Discovery building useful. As it happens, I'm an educator myself (university prof), and thought I'd mention that Google has another possible educational resource in the making. They just purchased JotSpot wiki (http://www.jot.com/) and announced that the service would become free. To my mind, that raises the ideal possibility of a marriage between the docs.google word and spreadsheet apps tied together in a wiki, which would make for a fantastic collaborative learning tool. I’m glad you found my flickr image of the Discovery building useful. As it happens, I’m an educator myself (university prof), and thought I’d mention that Google has another possible educational resource in the making. They just purchased JotSpot wiki (http://www.jot.com/) and announced that the service would become free.

To my mind, that raises the ideal possibility of a marriage between the docs.google word and spreadsheet apps tied together in a wiki, which would make for a fantastic collaborative learning tool.

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