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Great Classroom Bulletin Board Ideas!

Posted in Uncategorized by Lia Sant on April 28, 2012
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Primary bulletin boards can be cumbersome for some teachers to keep up with on a regular basis due to their so many other responsibilities. In an effort to find easy ways to rotate out this daunting task, Charity Preston has created four simple bulletin board ideas for Math, Social Studies, Science and Reading Teachers…

Education World: Instant Feedback in Class: Go With the ‘Flow’

Posted in Uncategorized by Lia Sant on April 28, 2012

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Education expert Bob Sun explains what total student engagement looks like and how teachers can foster it…

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San Francisco University High School 2012 1:1 iPad Initiative

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At San Francisco University High School, they embarked on an exciting step forward in their academic and technological growth, through the introduction last fall of a 1:1 iPad program. Through this program, every student received an iPad during the opening days of the 2011–2012 school year. With such great strides come a lot of  questions.  Still wondering how certain aspects of this program could work for your own institution? A read-through the iPad Initiative Implementation Team Answers to FAQs will provide you with all the necessary guidance through the entire process…

Screen Draw :: Add-on for Firefox

Posted in Uncategorized by Lia Sant on April 28, 2012

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Screen Draw lets you draw or type text over the top of any page in any colour or size and then save it to png or jpeg.

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Muhammed Chaudhry (SVEF) describes Lessonopoly

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Lessonopoly is an open educational resource aiming to make life a little easier for busy educators like you.
Developed by Silicon Valley Education Foundation, this site was created with constant input from teachers to deliver a set of effective and easy to use tools, even for teachers who do not have time to learn new technologies, empowering them to organize activities inside and outside the classroom, create and share lesson plans, and connect to other teachers by building online communities.

In this short videocast, Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, describes the Lessonopoly concept…

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Start Blogging to Change the World | Online Universities

Posted in Uncategorized by Lia Sant on April 28, 2012

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“A former student recently asked me to help him get started writing his own education blog….I’m always happy to help my students, past, present, and future, so I thought this provided an excellent opportunity to share my own experience getting started as an education blogger, and to pass on some tips for others about how to start their own blogs to help promote change in education.”

Some very useful guidelines by Dr Justin Marquis. (@drjwmarquis)

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Cookie ™ | Learning Games for Kids

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Cookie offers a wide variety of online educational games and activities for kids, which stimulate their senses and add to their knowledge, and at the same time, make learning a fun activity…

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Sapling Learning

Posted in Uncategorized by Lia Sant on April 28, 2012

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Sapling Learning is a textbook and publisher independent interactive online homework and assessment software that provides an active, engaging learning experience for students and easy-to-use timesaving science course management tools for instructors.

Try it…

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TED-Ed | Get Involved

Posted in Uncategorized by Lia Sant on April 28, 2012

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The most meaningful TED-Ed videos are collaborations between the TED-Ed team and at least one of the following: a curious learner, an exceptional educator, or a talented visualization artist. If you are one of these types of people, or if you know someone who is, help create a library of lessons worth sharing by either nominating an Educator or suggesting a lesson…

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Slideworld – PowerPoint Search Engine

Posted in Uncategorized by Lia Sant on April 28, 2012

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Slideworld renowned ppt search engine with massive collection of unique PowerPoint templates and  presentations easily customizable…

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