"Now you can view inspirational movie clips from many of your favorite films. These WingClips™ can also be downloaded to use in your school, church or other organization."
- - By Michele Brown
Achieve is proud to be the leading voice for the college- and career-ready agenda, and has helped transform the concept of “college and career readiness for all students” from a radical proposal into a national agenda.
- - By Marc Patton
Reintroducing students to Research
What are our assumptions about how students get research done in the humanities? How do those assumptions affect our instruction, and what really is our students' approach to research?
- - By Marc Hamlin
- First, we think research, broadly defined, is a valuable part of an undergraduate education. Even at a rudimentary level, engaging in research implicates students in the creation of knowledge. They need to understand that knowledge isn’t an inert substance they passively receive, but is continually created, debated, and reformulated—and they have a role to play in that process.
- we recognize that research is situated in disciplinary frameworks and needs to be addressed in terms of distinct research traditions.
- research is a complex and recursive process involving not just finding information but framing and refining a question, perhaps gathering primary data through field or lab work, choosing and evaluating appropriate evidence, negotiating different viewpoints, and composing some kind of response, all activities that are not linear but intertwined.
- learning to conduct inquiry is itself complex and recursive. These skills need to be developed throughout a research project and throughout a student’s education.
- the hybrid nature of libraries today requires students to master both traditional and emerging information formats, but the skills that students need to conduct effective inquiry—for example, those mentioned in your mission statement of reading critically and reasoning analytically—are the same whether the materials they use are in print or electronic.
- Too often, traditional research paper assignments defeat their own purpose by implying that research is not discovery, but rather a report on what someone else has already discovered. More than once I’ve had to talk students out of abandoning a paper topic because, to their dismay, they find out it’s original. If they can’t find a source that says for them exactly what they want to say—better yet, five sources—they think they’ll get in trouble.
- In reality, students doing researched writing typically spend a huge percentage of their time mapping out the research area before they can focus their research question. This is perfectly legitimate, though they often feel they’re spinning wheels. They have to do a good bit of reading before they really know what they’re looking for.
- she has students seek out both primary and secondary sources, make choices among them, and develop some conclusions in presentations that are far from standard literary criticism. One lab focuses on collecting and seeking relationships among assigned literary texts and other primary sources from the second half of the twentieth century to illuminate American society in that time period.
- For this lab, groups of students must find ten primary sources that relate in some way to literary texts under discussion and then—here’s the unusual bit—write three new verses of “America the Beautiful” that use the primary sources to illuminate a vision of American society. Instead of amber waves of grain and alabaster cities, they select images that reformulate the form of the song to represent another vision of the country. At the end of the course, her final essay assignment calls upon all of the work the previous labs have done, asking students to apply the skills they’ve practiced through the semester. While students in this course don’t do a single, big research project, they practice skills that will prepare them to do more sophisticated work later.
NASA - Go to the Head of the Solar System
Games from Nasa to help the students learn outer-space.
- - By kecurry
NationMaster - Health Statistics
Compares statistics country to country
- - By Kris Cody
Welcome to Northern Star Online
Northern Star Online (NSO) is a collaborative of 15 independent school districts and 4 educational service agencies created to further the State of Minnesota's goal of promoting high quality online learning for high school students. If you are looking for high school level courses, you can take them online with Northern Star Online.
- - By Marc Patton
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system built on over fourteen open source components to create an integrated solution that runs on Mac, Unix, and PC computers.
- - By Marc Patton
review of math apps for students
- - By Kelly Dau
Utah Charter School & Online High School | Open High School of Utah
I have been to a different school nearly every single year of my life trying to find the “perfect” school. OHSU is my perfect school. This is my second year at OHSU and the teachers here are amazing! They call me weekly just to check up on me and offer to tutor me whenever I am struggling. The courses and curriculum are great. It is easy to navigate and understand the material and if I don’t understand something, my teachers are only a Skype call away! I also love OHSU because it is very flexible. It makes school a lot easier to do when I can finish my schoolwork on my own time.
– Michael D.- - By Marc Patton
Diigo now supports screenshots « Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Learn It In 5 - Students demo wiki and Diigo use in classroom
Online School Minnesota | Distance Learning Minnesota
Minnesota Learning Commons
was created to provide access to effective and efficient online learning.- - By Marc Patton
Creative way to blog
- - By kecurry
Business Organization, sole proprietorship, limited partnership, corporation, business law
A place for Moodlers to share their Moodles.145 courses and counting. New courses to be uploaded frequently.
- - By Marc Patton
Introduction :: European History
A digital history reader. Modern European and USA history. Cool resource for upper level history classes.
- - By Garth Holman
A planner for students to help them with homework. Recommend for grades 5 and up.
- - By kecurry
Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:What Students Want from Teachers
Genius SIS is a powerful web-based student information system designed to make a school operation easier, faster and more reliable. It manages your admission process, controls enrollments, provides information to students and guardians, tracks students progress, improves your communication with students, offers dynamic reports and much more.
- - By Marc Patton
standards for online courses
- - By Marc Patton
iNACOL Online Teaching Standards
National Standards for Teaching Online
- - By Marc Patton
Ocean Fun Facts - Continents and Oceans for Kids
- - By Jasmane Frans
An interest music project where users upload videos of guitars being played and you can view the notes and chords being played on a timeline in real time. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Music%2C+Sound+%26+Podcasts
- - By Martin Burrett
Great place for animated backgrounds images, etc. Register for free
- - By Michele Brown
Common Core Math with Mr. Almeida
Nice collection of video tutorials for math
- - By Patriot High School
Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts
Shows all the standards side by side.
- - By Eric Arbetter
You may never have to teach style again!
- - By Michelle Kassorla
We want to bring the power of the Internet to more students and families across the country. That's why we created Internet Essentials to offer home Internet service for only $9.95 a month.
- - By Marc Patton
- - By Michelle Kassorla
- - By Marc Patton
- - By Michelle Kassorla
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies
- - By Graham Wright
- - By Clifton Guthrie
Partnership for Collaborative Curriculum & Innovative Instruction
The Partnership for Innovative Instruction is a project of the MN Learning Commons. Our goal is to leverage the power of collaboration and digital resources to launch teachers and students into new learning frontiers.
- - By Marc Patton
Free Resources for Teachers | Online Student Code of Conduct
- the new Fluid Grid Layout functionality in Dreamweaver
- Responsive Design is the best way for us in eLearning and mLearning to develop learning experiences once and deploy them everywhere and on any device.
- Adobe Shadow in my mind is one of the best pieces of technology to have come out from Adobe in recent memories. Shadow allows you to connect multiple devices to your desktop wirelessly and then as you browse pages on your computer, all of you devices display the same page accordingly. I use this all the time to test my Blog on my Mac, iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire and Droid 2. It’s awesome.
Tickly Pictures - JellyCam and more
Creative video production.
- - By Steve Gall
Cross-browser testing, mobile | Edge Inspect | Edge Tools & Services | Adobe & HTML
- - By Bill Bass
How Should Teaching Change in the Age of Siri? | MindShift
Of course I'm biased, but I think Siri can be a great addition to any classroom. ; )
- - By Siri Anderson
Project Blue Sky allows instructors to search, select, and seamlessly integrate Open Educational Resources with Pearson learning materials.
- - By Marc Patton
Anaconda Facts and Pictures -- National Geographic Kids
- - By Dora Hawkins
15 Lesson Plans For Making Students Better Online Researchers - Edudemic
20+ Apps to Support the Digital Storytelling Process : Teacher Reboot Camp
Online Educational Delivery Models: A Descriptive View
Early course delivery via the web had started by 1994, soon followed by a more structured approach using the new category of course management systems.1 Since that time, online education has slowly but steadily grown in popularity, to the point that in the fall of 2010, almost one-third of U.S. postsecondary students were taking at least one course online.
- - By Marc Patton
Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH | The Thinking Stick
Imagine exploring 13.7B years of history – from the Big Bang to modernity. Big history tells the complete story – with a goal of revealing common themes and patterns that help students better understand people, civilizations and our place in the universe. The Big History Project is a collaboration designed to bring big history to life for high school students.
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload by Christian Peukert, Jörg Claussen :: SSRN
Energy Clock - Horloge des énergies
Dans cette page ; Les principales sources d'énergie et leurs consommations aux USA et dans le monde. Remarquez la faible place qu'occupe les énergies dites vertes dans ce tableau, et ce malgré les beaux discours corpocrates. / On this page you'll find the USA and world consumption of main streamming energies. The green ones are really poor, nonobstant what we see, hear and read in the medias, -30-
A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom
Fill It In: English Spanish Vocabulary
- - By Dora Hawkins
Top Tips: How To Take Great Photos With Your Smartphone
"The tips above, when followed, can help you create some beautiful photos with your mobile device. Naturally, it still requires creativity and a good eye, but following some technical pointers is always a good start."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
- While phone cameras still can’t replace good SLRs, they’re a very good match for the compact cameras, and since your phone comes everywhere with you anyway, it also becomes your go-to camera
- Just because your phone is your default camera, however, doesn’t mean you need to be taking bad photos
Jing, screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith
- - By Michelle Kassorla
- - By Michelle Kassorla
MAO is an enzyme that seems to have an important function in the behavior of individuals. Low MAO = Hign criminality High MAO = Fear and Insecurity
- - By Jac Londe
#betterbroadbandinINSOMNIAthanyourchildsschool
This is a rather strange title but as a teacher I am getting frustrated that there is better connectivity in many coffee-shops, than in many classrooms.
- - By Donal O' Mahony
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 4 Presentation Tools Worth Trying
online hybrid courses using moodle
- - By Marc Patton
- - By Michelle Kassorla
Roland Gesthuizen - Google+ - Had fun today at #stav2012 showing junior science videos,…
"Had fun today at #stav2012 showing junior science videos, including this one I made a few years ago for +BlipTV where I used glove puppets to teach multicelular organisms."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
Technology as "Hamburger Helper" - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week
"Technology can be a powerful lever for rethinking schools and systems. But it's the rethinking that matters, not the technology. Technology provides tools to help solve problems smarter, deliver knowledge, support students, extend and deepen instruction, and refashion cost structures. Unfortunately, too many educators, industry shills, and technology enthusiasts seem to imagine that the technology itself will be a difference maker."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
- technology is a powerful tool for driving productivity and quality, in schooling as elsewhere; the problem is not with the technology, but with how we've used it.
- regard technology as the means to the end you'd like to achieve, rather than an end in itself
- 99 percent of the time, the biggest impact of technology is optimizing familiar tasks and routines--freeing up talent, time, and dollars for better uses
- - By sean grainger
- - By sean grainger
- - By deniseahlquist
- - By sean grainger
- - By Diane Berthoin-Hernandez
Free Technology for Teachers: 60 of the Best Websites and Apps for Teachers
"CAMPBELL Walsh was sick of waiting for his NAPLAN test results. ''I wanted to know how I'd done. It had already been about four months and I still hadn't got the results,'' says the year 5 student from Aitken Creek Primary in the outer Melbourne suburb of Craigieburn. "
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
- He points out it is not just schools that block social media; many workplaces do so also. ''The safety and wellbeing of every student is a primary concern for schools and systems, and we shouldn't misinterpret good intentions around this.''
- schools shouldn't underestimate the fact students are accessing social media on their phones at school anyway
- Twitter encourages students to respond to each other's questions rather than accept he is the only one with the answers
- We have to tame social media to use it to advantage kids' learning
- It's truly important that teachers today have a really good understanding of how young people learn, play and socialise outside their formal classroom
A list of unsupported features for HTML5 output in Captivate 6 | LinkedIn
- You have just completed your 300-page autobiography. Please submit Page 217. (UPenn, 2009)
- 这篇作文的目的是看学生对自己的人生有没有什么规划。任何大学都希望自己的学生和校友成功，而有雄心有计划的人成功的可能性会更高一些。这个题目并不难写，如果你想当导演，第217页可能是写你在奥斯卡奖颁奖仪式上焦急地等待结果；如果你想从政，第217页可能是写到你作为新科参议员视察飓风袭击后的灾区的情景。写什么都可以，你的想象力是唯一的障碍。如果你说我不知道我想做什么(这也常见)，那就编一个，没人会找你算账的。最后别忘记提到你在宾大接受的教育在你成功中起到的作用，这样你就给大学一个录取你的好理由。
- Using the quotation below as a jumping off point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world.
"Some questions cannot be answered./ They become familiar weights in the hand,/ Round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool." - 如果你想知道普林斯顿到底喜欢什么样的人，从这个题目应该可以看出点端倪 – 有思想而且执著的人。这首诗到底在说啥，怎样才能起跳？有些人可能有这样的经历，他看到了一件事，读了一本书，有一个哲学问题等等，以后就一直放不下。因为挥之不去，就变成了他的一个负担，坚硬而冰凉。没有？那你太幸福了，也许你就不该写这个题目。如果有这种经历，你或许能写出一篇很出彩的文章，展示你的思想的深度和敏锐度。要注意的是重点不在这个事件的本身，更重要的是后来呢？它是怎样改变了你的，而你又做了些什么呢？
- Stanford students possess an intellectual vitality. Reflect on an idea or experience that has been important to your intellectual development.
- In short, we are looking for the thinking student who has a passion for learning.
- 斯坦福想看到的是不但有好奇心，能在饭桌上进行热烈的讨论，而且能进一步把它变成一个研究课题的学生。如果学生拥有对扩展自己智能空间的激情，能量，主动性和真正的兴趣，这个题目不难。这些特质一定会某方面展露出来的
- - By mollyfanning
This looks pretty fabulous! "Leading the Revolution in Education OpenClass is a dynamic, scalable, fully cloud-based learning environment that stimulates social learning and enables the distribution of content at massive scale to students wherever they are. And did we mention it's completely FREE? With OpenClass there are no hardware costs, licensing costs, or hosting costs. Why would we do that? Because "free" enables the widespread adoption of the most effective approaches to learning that encourage interaction within the classroom and around the world."
- - By Thieme Hennis
5 Insider Tips for a Better Social Media Strategy | Inc.com
"Social media analytics can be a boon for businesses that use it wisely. Two founders of social data start-ups explain what they've learned so far."
- - By Roland Gesthuizen
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