TECH: Request for comments: online student curriculum

[Russell Smith <russell@RUSTYSMITH.COM>]

Crossposted to the sister list EDTECH:  (Please excuse dupes)


  Hello LM_NET educators:

  Besides fighting the deadly Nimda virus at my 43 school districts, I
am finishing up a roundup review article on online student curriculum
for my next column in the American School Board Journal's Electronic
School magazine (Jan. issue). I am currently looking at bigchalk.com.
Learning.com, Branium, Lightspan, Tom Snyder Decisions, Decisions
Online, and ClassroomConnect.

  If you have any comments about these services only in the area of
student curriculum I would appreciate your thoughts. I am especially
interested in comments about webpage readability (font or colors too
small, interface confusing?, etc..), quality of the educational content
(the million dollar issue), and pricing. Also if you have a service your
district is using I didn't mention that you think is worthy of inclusion
please let me know so I can check it out.


Thanks,


Russell Smith
Edtech Consultant, Journalist
Region 14 Education Service Center
Abilene, Texas  915-675-8647
http://www.rustysmith.com

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