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Mormons to use social media for recruiting

LDS moving away from door to door to more social media contacts online. This might seem off topic, but the LDS are one of the more effective “outreach” and “teaching” organizations out there. They, along with the Jehova’s Witnesses, have...

Service as Learning: Time

Recent cover story in Time by Joe Klein about how vets from recent wars return home and often drift and succumb to various problems including PTSD…. and how involvement in community volunteer programs teaches them effective ways to adjust to a new life. This is...

Cartlife- a narrative video game

Trailer for Cartlife: I saw an article in the Seattle Times about the developer of the video game Cartlife. The narrative game follows three characters in their lives as street vendors. The characters make choices about their work while making choices about their...

Common Core Standards in LCPS

Story in LCSN about Common Core Standards implementation in New Mexico, and regionally here at LCPS. Apparently well into the second year of doing so. No mention in the story of Tea Party attempts to derail Common Core nationally, so perhaps that’s not happening...