Hi, all.  Welcome to my NDeRC Blog. I’m Tom Loughran, in case you’re keeping track.  I help to manage NDeRC.  I’m also a classroom teacher, and I help develop online research activities for students who aren’t yet in college. Blogs are a big deal for NDeRC.  Our interaction with one another–the stuff that communities are …

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Breaking Borders Award: Winners announced Official Google Blog: Honoring those who give voice to the silenced Global Voices: Announcing the Breaking Borders Award Winners BOSCO Uganda: Press Release BOSCO Uganda: Award Acceptance Speech, Archbishop of Gulu, John Baptist Odama www.boscouganda.com

VoiceThread – Group conversations around images, documents, and videos browse create myvoice thomas.loughran@gmail.com · My Account · Manage · Sign out Welcome to VoiceThread. Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice and text commenting. You will need Flash Player 7.0 or higher to continue. No worries, you can download a free version of Flash …

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This is a Wordle graphic showing the top words–where font size is used to show how frequently each word occurs–in the 2010 Indiana State Science Standards. There’s a great deal to like about these standards: they are more concise in content, and the process standards include both science and engineering principles. The occasion for my …

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Congressman Joe Donnelly has supported our Collaborating for Education and Research Forum every year since its inception. We are grateful for his encouraging remarks, which we pass along here. You can read his remarks about this event in the Donnelly Dispatch here. Congratulations also to our Penn High School colleague Stacy McCormack, our Indiana 2011 …

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Clicking the link above will take you to noted author Daniel Pink’s blog, where he discusses his review of The Haves and the Have-Nots by Branco Milanovic, an economist for the World Bank. In my view, this chart captures something essential but usually unspoken in discussions of the prospects for the future of American education, …

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