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IN SPITE OF RECORD LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT, jobs requiring highly skilled personnel are going unfilled, according to the Wall Street Journal.  (Note:  the WSJ publishes teasers and requires a subscription to read the rest of the article.  But Fox News repeated a significant amount of the article here.)  In an art

The Chronicle of Higher Education published an interesting article on November 9 about a class that received a full refund and grades of "A" at The George Washington University School of Medicine. The reason:  the instructor was a no-show.

We've just come across a great resource for professional educators, it's called American School Board Journal, and it's online at http://www.asbj.com. Just wanted to let you know!

A company called Ambient Insight Research recently announced the results of their analysis of the ELearning industry, stating that they expect overall industry revenues to reach $50 billion per year by 2015, according to the British website Virtual College.

Online "how-to" videos are among those with the greatest growth potential.

What do Massachusetts and South Carolina have in common? If you're a political junkie, you might think "nothing". But both states have recently made moves to seek waivers to the "No Child Left Behind" requirements.

New software from Adobe supports the creation of a "wide variety of interactive quizzes" and tracks the results.  It's called Captivate, and the latest release is version 5.5.

Billed as "ELearning Authoring Software", Captivate interoperates with a number of other systems.  It's compliant with SCORM and AICC. It ingests Microsoft PowerPoint slides for content creation, and delivers to multiple platforms, including mobile devices and tablets.

It's 11 PM on Wednesday night, April 6, 2011, as I type this, and I've just watched President Obama give a speech on live TV from the White House about the ongoing discussions regarding attempts on the part of the Congress and the White House to reach a resolution on the issue of funding resolutions.  At issue: the risk of a government shutdown Friday night.  While the President sounded optimistic about the chance of a resolution in the next 48 hours, and emphasized the sense of urgency about it, he offered nothing new to indicate that it will be avoided.

I swear I am not making this up, but apparently Charlie Sheen filmed an educational video for at-risk children a few weeks ago.  Read all about it here: Charlie Sheen Films Educational Video For At Risk Kids.
Wow.

There's a great article at the US News and World Report website titled Can Facebook Posts Lead to College Rejections? The bottom line is what you would expect:  if you post something reckless, you get a reckless reputation.  So use your good sense, assuming you have any.  And for a guideline,