Links and Resources: January 1st, 2009

Over the last year I have occassionally posted a set to links to other web resources without much commentary, which I titled "Links and Resources: xxxx". In the beginning of December I phased out this type of post in favor of using del.icio.us. In that post I introduced social bookmarking, encouraged you to add my bookmarked pages to your RSS feed reader and added a linkroll listing of these links to the left-hand column of this blog.

I had a few extra links laying around so I thought I would give you one last Links and Resources post.

• Take the WASL yourself. A sample Washington Assessment of Student Learning test is available from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) web site. Good luck.
• Back during the fall round of advisory bored meetings I recommended an article titled "Reprogramming College Preparatory Computer Science" by Joanna Goode. You can find a copy of the article at the Computer Science Teachers Association web site.
• On the open courseware front, OnlineUniversities.com has posted a list of 100 awesome Ivy League lectures.
• Edublogs.tv hosts two videos of interest to those using Google: Google Search Tips and Google Advanced Search Tips.
• Liz Davis hightlights some of the web 2.0 successes at her school during the last school year.
  

This next group of links comes from the Edmonds Community College Newsvine feed. Newsvine is something of a cross between a blog and social bookmarking. You can add your own content to your column or you can seed it with other content (add links). In addition to their own feed, EdCC appears to contribute to a Newsvine Group titled The Academe. Let me recommend that you give both a look and again, much thanks to EdCC communications for hunting down these next three links

• This Puget Sound Business Journal article highlights the problem of manufacturering jobs going unfilled, even as the economy turns sour. Article highlights EdCC challenge in filling some of the specialized vocational-technical programs aimed at this employment gap.
• Local post-secondary education faces many challenges. Five college presidents sit down and discuss the challenges on this episode of KUOW's Weekday.
• The Enterprise newspapers don't think the right place to start cutting the state budget is at the community colleges in this op-ed piece.
  

And, as has been the tradition, I end with something fun. Do you find those workplace posters with sayings and pictures of rowing shells inspirational? Me neither. So you'll like this selection of demotivational posters from Despair.com.

Oh, and for Paul at the Last Great Road Trip, when I say this is the last links post, I mean it is the conclusion not the ultimate.