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Professional teachers...this site was built for you!
This site will highlight instructional strategies and technology-related opportunities for professional educators. Let this site enrich your instruction! Make technology tools work for you and your students! Align them with your lesson objectives to better engage your students. You can do it!
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What makes for an effective office environment? Random encounters with your coworkers. And food. Lots and lots of food.
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Are you looking for free e-learning images, photos, cliparts or illustrations? In this post I will present you The Ultimate list of Free Stock Photos Sites for eLearning.
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Google Drive can do more than store stuff. Check out these tools for automatic backup, easy file sharing, collaboration, encryption, music, and more.
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ABC News Cell phone ownership hits 91% of adults Pew Research Center FT_PI_13.06.06_CellphoneOwnership_420px For the first time, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has found that cell phone ownership among adults has...
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abc7news.com Study: US Smartphone Penetration Now at 61% Mashable Smartphone owners are now a solid majority of U.S. mobile subscribers at 61% according to Nielsen. Smartphones became the dominant mobile device in the U.S.
Textivate is an online facility for creating and sharing interactive browser-based activities. Text re-ordering, gap-fills, text re-construction, anagrams, matching, memory, hangman, flashcards, millionaire and lots more - all automatically generated based on any text and/or list of matching items that you put into the textivate text box. Much of the site is free to use, and subscribers can upload resources to share with their students or embed activities on a blog or website. It is browser-based, so it works on desktops, laptops, ipads etc. The activities are ideal for whole-class work with any interactive whiteboard. You can see video tutorials here: http://textivate.posthaven.com/video-tutorials To help you get started, browse the hundreds of public resources on the site, or click on "textivate now" to see the range of activities available.
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Websites & mobile apps for digital storytelling, such as Toontastic, VoiceThread, StoryKit, Xtranormal, Puppet Pals, Pixton, Storybird, Comic Master, etc.
The great thing about blogging, compared to traditional print media, is that you can update posts as often as you like. With that in min (Lesen >> 40+ FREE online language learning resources: Most comprehensive and up to date list of courses!
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Kansas City Star #DearGrads: KC's top Twitter users write graduation speeches Kansas City Star So we asked some of Kansas City's most popular Twitter users to write graduation speeches for us — in that concise format.
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Brain Frontal Lobes Not Sole Center of Human Intelligence, Comparative ...
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Prevent behavior problems by telling students what to do and why they should do it.
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Video: UW Education's Tom Stritikus says guiding teachers is key The Seattle Times (blog) University of Washington College of Education Dean Tom Stritikus says being raised by Greek immigrant parents inspired him to approach learning as a powerful...
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One common MOOC assignment is to create a digital artifact that will send you hunting for sources of free art or other images. Here are 15 places to get started.
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Los Angeles Times Survey shows growing support for online education in California Los Angeles Times His positive view about online education was strongly supported in a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.
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Proposed Changes to NASA's Education and Outreach – A View from the Outside Universe Today The first Moon landing inspired a whole generation of scientists and engineers.
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Reviewed.com: Smartphone cameras are taking over USA TODAY Whether you consider them "real" cameras or not, the easy connectivity and creative possibilities provided by smartphones are kicking off a new photography boom — and your cat couldn't be...
The technology they use in their personal lives just makes sense for use in their learning as well. If a student badly wanted a new tablet or app for his or her own personal use but wanted nothing to do with it for any kind of learning whatsoever, we may need to look at the disconnect. But there are other reasons why education consistently turns to technology
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Hot Hardware 8 Free, Must-Have Windows 8 Apps InformationWeek 8 Free, Must-Have Windows 8 Apps. Start The Discussion | Kevin Casey | May 13, 2013 11:06 AM.
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ExtremeTech Scent messaging: Gadget brings smell-o-vision to smartphones ExtremeTech However, in something of an incredible twist, smartphones may get widespread smell-o-vision before, for example, cooking shows.
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Latino High School Grads Enter College At A Record Rate NPR Latinos are entering colleges and universities at higher rates than whites and blacks but still lower than Asian Americans.
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I love May. The weather is as close to perfect as it will be all year in most parts of the country. The songbirds have returned to sing to us. My favorite sport, baseball, is in full swing. And best
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