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• Alice: Free, Easy, Interactive 3D Graphics for the WWW » The focus of the Alice project is now to provide the best possible first exposure to programming for students ranging from middle schoolers to college students.

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• Kids may be right after all: Homework stinks » "A new study confirms what kids and parents already know: The "tougher standards" fad that has American education in its grip has meant more and more homework for younger and younger children."
• Should public schools require uniforms? »
• NECC 2007 Attendees | Attendees: Program: Call for Participation »
• Grandview News » Top of the Fold Newspaper - Elementary students publishing on the web.
• Why blog as an administrator? From Scott McLeod »

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• Crave Talk: Consumer electronics ate my child’s imagination » Are consumer electronics killing childhood?

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• K12 Online 2006 Conference? » Announcing the first annual ?K12 Online 2006 educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice.
• Intellectually Feeble, and Pedagogically Evil » Kairosnews has an article about the use of plagiarism detection software. Kairosnews and the related Cyberdash recommend against the use of these services. These two articles breakdown a host of reasons why using these services is a bad idea.

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After moderating hundreds of comments as spam, I decided to do something about it. The installation of Spam Karma 2 over at the Bitsmack.com site has been a rousing success, eating 12,485 spam comments in a little over a week. I’ve now installed it here on RyanCollins.org. If you are running Wordpress, take a moment to check it out. The plug-in installs in only a few minutes.

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