I always said Facebook was bad news…

Expulsion threat over Facebook study group | NEWS.com.au: “A CANADIAN university threatened to expel a student for cheating because he set up an online study group on social networking website Facebook.”
Check out the article. Very interesting indeed. According to the article Ryerson lifted the expulsion threat but are giving him zero for the tutorial work. [...]

School is comfortable

Mathew Needleman has a site focussed around digital storytelling and the use of video in the classroom for primary school. There are lots of creation, planning and production tips including assessment rubrics that can be used along the way. Great resource. His current interest appears to be clay-mation (see the podcast). I’ve embedded a short [...]