A new product from Merit Software called Bookpunch seeks to automate the writing process for students.  The site walks students through the writing process, which it breaks up into: Introduction | Topic | Pre-Writing | Writing–Opening Sentence | More Pre-Writing | Writing–Body | Organizing | Writing–Closing Sentence | Revising–Overview: Style, Sentence Structure, Grammar, Proofreading | [...]

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A Maryland high school will be using a virtual 3-D learning environment to learn about the eruption of Mount St. Helens.  The online environment was developed at Johns Hopkins.  In the year to come, the developers at JH will create a comparable moon environment.  eSchool News puts it like this:
A coalition that also included Lockheed [...]

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A journalism professor recently wrote with emphatic resistance to microblogging services like Twitter, which are having field-shifting effects on her profession.  At the heart of her piece is the following sentence:
I worry that microblogging cheats my students out of their trump card: a mindful attention to the subject in front of them, so that [...]

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I’ve often wanted to have readers’ comments become a more dynamic part of web-page reading.  Below is a link of a Wordpress theme called CommentPress.  danah boyd’s recent talk is posted on the page.  Note the way in which comments are left and linger on the page (though boyd’s ideas are always worth a look [...]

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In this recent article in the New York Times, the case is made for moving away from traditional textbooks:
Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions — or supplanted altogether by lessons assembled from the [...]

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