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Brain Games: Play Free Puzzle Games Online, Free Puzzles

ProProfs Brain Games allows you to build interactive crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, word searches, hangman games, and sliding puzzle games. The games you create can be embedded into your blog or shared via email, Twitter, Facebook, or Myspace. If you don't want to take the time to create your own game, you can browse the gallery of games. All of the games in gallery can be embedded into your blog.Play free online brain games and puzzels. Free puzzle games and brain games that make you smarter

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Decimal Squares - Interactive Games - References

Includes Decimal Squares, a program for teaching all decimal concepts, and also references, links, research statements, and interactive games for learning about decimals.provides simple games for students to use to develop their math skills. The games do not require an account to play and they work on any web browser that has current Flash plug-ins installed. The games are best suited to middle school students, but could be used with upper elementary grades or with high school freshmen.

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Brain Games, Brain Fitness & Brain Training - Fitbrains.com

Play Brain Games, Start Brain Training Today and Improve your Memory with over 20 Scientifically designed Brain Fitness Games at Fitbrains.com! is a collection of free games designed to strengthen five areas of cognitive brain function.While the website seems to be targeted toward an older audience there are some games on Fit Brains appropriate for students at all grade levels above the third grade. Reading through the background information about Fit Brains you do get the impression that the games are grounded in sound neuropsychology. The Fit Brains blog has a number of interesting articles about brain science that teachers and parents will find interesting.

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Multiplication.com - Teach the Multiplication Facts - Times Tables

www.multiplication.com - activities, games, worksheets to help teach the multiplication facts. has four pages of games for kids to use to practice the multiplication tables. (There are also addition, subtraction, and division games). I played a couple of the "car wash" games today and they were quite enjoyable. After playing the games I can see how kids would get addicted to the games in a good way.

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JigsawPlanet.com - Free Online Jigsaw Puzzle Games

Many free online jigsaw puzzles. You can also create your own puzzles and send them to your friends. On this web site you can: Create your own puzzles. Play your own and common puzzles. Send puzzles to friends. Put created puzzles on your web pages. Your puzzles will not be visible to other visitors (except a receiver of a puzzle sent via Send). To create a new puzzle use the easy-to-use form above. This service is free.

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Doing What Works - Home

Doing What Works is a project of the US Department of Education, West Ed, and Little Planet Learning. The purpose of Doing What Works is to share the best research-based education practices. Doing What Works presents those best practices with videos of real teachers using them, interviews with educators, visual planning diagrams, and information for further research.
Applications for Education
A lot of websites share ideas for implementing new education practices, but few sites share videos featuring real teachers talking about their practices. Doing What Works does a good job of presenting both ideas and examples.

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Vocabulix - Learn Spanish, German, and English

Vocabulix provides numerous free tools for learning Spanish, German, or English. On Vocabulix can be used to create quizzes or take quizzes online. Vocabulix provides dozens of drills and activities designed to help students learn Spanish, German, or English. The verb conjugation chart can be used on the Vocabulix website. The verb conjugator code is freely available for use in third party blogs, wikis, or websites. As most new language learning websites do, Vocabulix has a social networking option that helps match native speakers with learners.

Applications for Education
Vocabulix is a great tool for independent study or practice of a foreign language. The activities are short and sweet and give students instant feedback. The pre-made Vocabulix exercises are flexible enough for use with a wide range of students from beginners to advanced language learners. Students can select the type of response, multiple choice or written response, the level of difficulty, and choice of having or not having visual clues.
The verb conjugator widget is a nice tool to include on your class blog, wiki, or website to support student learning outside of the classroom.

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Screenpresso Looks Promising for Screen Captures

Screenpresso is a new screen capture program for Windows. Screenpresso has all of the features such as image resizing, annotation options, and format variety that you would expect from a screen capture program. Screenpresso also features like Twitter integration which are not always found in screen capture programs. The most unique option in Screenpresso is the ability to stitch together multiple screen captures. Stitching allows you to include scrolling in your screen captures. The scrolling option could be very useful for showing people how to work through a large page that doesn't fit into a typical screen capture. For example all of the front page of Free Technology for Teachers doesn't fit into a typical screen capture. Using Screenpresso you could create a screen capture of the entire front page.

Applications for Education
Screen captures, particularly annotated screen captures, can be very useful for giving directions to students and colleagues about how to use a piece of software or how to navigate a website. Using Screenpresso you can make annotated screen captures then post them to Twitter, email them, or post them on your blog or wiki.

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Steve Hargadon: Social Networking in Education - A Whitepaper

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How to Prepare Your College for an Uncertain Digital Future - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Q. Can you explain in 60 seconds what a digital strategist is?

A. I'll start with an anecdote. About six or seven years ago I heard a talk by the architect who designed the new Nasher Museum of Art here at Duke University. Someone asked him what the role of an architect was, and he said, "To interpret and to inspire." I really liked that. A lot of what I do in this role is trying to get a better understanding of what the changing needs are, and methods of scholarship in a digital age, and how we produce information, and how we manage it, how we share it, how we preserve it. And to inspire the technology planners to adopt approaches that are holistic and have a long-term view.
Q. Can you explain in 60 seconds what a digital strategist is?

A. I'll start with an anecdote. About six or seven years ago I heard a talk by the architect who designed the new Nasher Museum of Art here at Duke University. Someone asked him what the role of an architect was, and he said, "To interpret and to inspire." I really liked that. A lot of what I do in this role is trying to get a better understanding of what the changing needs are, and methods of scholarship in a digital age, and how we produce information, and how we manage it, how we share it, how we preserve it. And to inspire the technology planners to adopt approaches that are holistic and have a long-term view.
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- Q. Can you explain in 60 seconds what a digital strategist is?
  
  A. I'll start with an anecdote. About six or seven years ago I heard a talk by the architect who designed the new Nasher Museum of Art here at Duke University. Someone asked him what the role of an architect was, and he said, "To interpret and to inspire." I really liked that. A lot of what I do in this role is trying to get a better understanding of what the changing needs are, and methods of scholarship in a digital age, and how we produce information, and how we manage it, how we share it, how we preserve it. And to inspire the technology planners to adopt approaches that are holistic and have a long-term view.
- Q. Can you explain in 60 seconds what a digital strategist is?
  
  A. I'll start with an anecdote. About six or seven years ago I heard a talk by the architect who designed the new Nasher Museum of Art here at Duke University. Someone asked him what the role of an architect was, and he said, "To interpret and to inspire." I really liked that. A lot of what I do in this role is trying to get a better understanding of what the changing needs are, and methods of scholarship in a digital age, and how we produce information, and how we manage it, how we share it, how we preserve it. And to inspire the technology planners to adopt approaches that are holistic and have a long-term view.
- Q. Can you explain in 60 seconds what a digital strategist is?
  
  A. I'll start with an anecdote. About six or seven years ago I heard a talk by the architect who designed the new Nasher Museum of Art here at Duke University. Someone asked him what the role of an architect was, and he said, "To interpret and to inspire." I really liked that. A lot of what I do in this role is trying to get a better understanding of what the changing needs are, and methods of scholarship in a digital age, and how we produce information, and how we manage it, how we share it, how we preserve it. And to inspire the technology planners to adopt approaches that are holistic and have a long-term view.

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Brain Games: Play Free Puzzle Games Online, Free Puzzles

Decimal Squares - Interactive Games - References

Brain Games, Brain Fitness & Brain Training - Fitbrains.com

Multiplication.com - Teach the Multiplication Facts - Times Tables

JigsawPlanet.com - Free Online Jigsaw Puzzle Games

Doing What Works - Home

Vocabulix - Learn Spanish, German, and English

Screenpresso Looks Promising for Screen Captures

Steve Hargadon: Social Networking in Education - A Whitepaper

How to Prepare Your College for an Uncertain Digital Future - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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