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UMass: Recent Remote Teaching and EdTech Articles from Torrey Trust and Jeromie Whalen

Two of Dr. Torrey Trust’s articles were selected for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Technology & Teacher Education. Should Teachers be Trained in Emergency Remote Teaching? Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic, shares initial insights from research on educators’ experiences during this crisis and provides recommendations for how to better prepare and support educators for teaching remotely in times of need.

BoingBoing: Jostens Yearbook is a giant scam that stole from our school for years

The company had been systematically overbilling them for years, sending them things they hadn’t ordered — posters, extra books — and charging titanic sums for them, on top of mysterious “production fees” and false sales tax claims, all without a contract — and getting away with it because they didn’t send (and were reluctant to produce) itemized invoices.