Education & Tech News for Educators 01/01/2009

Free or Open Source Synchronous Learning
Yugma's free version allows you to share your desktop with up to 10 others while using the built-in instant message features

The top 10 ed-tech stories of 2008
These are among the many noteworthy developments affecting educational technology in the past year.

Is it appropriate to expect a social return on investment when considering education?
Most people would agree that society should expect a return from its investment in education.


When that tacit agreement is translated into an explicit attempt to measure that return it seems to cross the threshold of acceptability.

The rest of my favorite links are here.