KUSA-TV Denver (9/28, Garcia) reports that Everitt Middle School technology teacher Alison Saylor 'is using Google Apps for Education to create a virtual domain for her students." The platform lets students "use word processors, spread sheets, and graphic tools to create projects which are done entirely online." According to Saylor, one of the best features "is the feedback. Students can go online, view another student's project and offer comments right there on the web page." This, Saylor said, "creates an environment of complete classroom collaboration." Said Saylor, "They do care more about what their peers think than what I think. ... But they need to know to go out and be good workers, how to collaborate with other people. You don't go to work in isolation." KUSA noted that Google Apps for Education "is free and it contains no ads."
Denver Public Schools To Expand Suicide Curriculum To Sixth, Ninth Grades By 2015. KDVR-TV Denver (9/27, Jose) reported that sixth and ninth graders in Denver Public schools "will be required to take the 'Signs of Suicide' curriculum" in 2015. Currently, "the program is offered in 18 Denver public schools," but officials plan "to expand it" to all Denver schools in five years. KDVR notes that the curriculum was launched in response to statistics that show "suicide is the second leading killer of high school students in Colorado."
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