Today, teachers are using the Web 2.0 tools to introduce lessons in their classroom. Students are collaborating with other students around the world, creating online content and displaying their work to a global world. Web 2.0 facilitates professional collaboration, networking, critical thinking, collaboration, innovation, creativity, global understanding and multicultural learning. Various tools for collaborative writing and editing, private communication, online conferencing, file sharing, and desktop sharing enable teachers to effectively collaborate with the students beyond school hours thus making optimum use of the technology available.

On November 3, 2010, Middleboro voters passed adopted the Community Preservation Act. The 4,371 to 3,795 win for proponents of the adoption of the 2000 state law came as a surprise, given the fact that local voters turned down the program in 2002 when times were considerably better financially…

With the U.S. economy the way it currently is, cities and towns across the country are trying to figure out ways to cope with the loss of state and federal money. Most locales are looking at budget cuts and new or enhanced taxes and fees to help support local services, schools and other things that make their town run.

In the course of a five day work week (if I am lucky), these are a variety of meetings that fill up my time at the office. There are days when I go into a meeting of one type or another at 8AM (or earlier) and wrap up my meeting filled agenda at 5PM (or later). I’d like to say [...]

In the past few Board of Selectmen meetings, Middleboro’s officials have been discussing their goals for this fiscal year and for the next year. Some of the discussions have been around how to bring more business into the town and increase Middleboro’s profile in the state. All good stuff… I stumbled across an article on Gigaom.com about “rural sourcing” and [...]

Recently, I wrote a blog post about how Middleboro, Massachusetts’ town government could use traditional and non-traditional media to communicate with residents and businesses. As Hurricane Irene (or, more technically speaking, Tropical Storm Irene) blew through town, I started to think about how the town could have used a variety of channels to communicate what was happening. After we lost [...]

Lately I’ve been seeing articles about companies banning social media in the office as well as some companies (mostly overseas) that have banned the Internet all together. My immediate reaction to these stories is that these companies are not the norm and that’s why journalists are writing about them. A study from Robert Half Technology found that 38% of chief [...]

Late in 2010, my husband and I moved to our new home in Middleboro. While the house was technically “move in ready” our Type A personalities kicked in and there were a few things we had to do before we could actually move in. We needed to have floors refinished and replaced, walls painted, chimneys and fireplaces cleaned and inspected [...]

By trade and passion I am a word person. I live, eat and breathe reading, writing and communicating with words. I am not – by any stretch of my imagination – an artistically-inclined visual person. Lately, though, I’ve been catching more and more information and articles about infographics and has started me down this weird path of trying to become [...]

“This may sound crass, but if you choose to live at the end of Marion Road or end of Miller Street or someplace else, you’ve made a decision because you know there’s not a fire station there. You’re taking a degree of risk, as an individual, and in some cases asking us to incur a half a million dollars across [...]