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Overview of current trends in e-learning. According to this post, what's hot is social media, informal learning, simulations & scenario-based learning, virtual worlds, rapid learning, mobile learning, open source, and performance support.

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A good description from a teacher describing how his students are motivated by the ClustrMap on his class website, including how it inspires them to look up places on Google Earth

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Interview with an 8th grade teacher about how having an audience for their blog has motivated her students

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Looking at blogging as a way to motivate students to write through the lens of Determination Theory (Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness), examining how to generate and maintain motivation. Also discusses an inquiry-based learning approach with blogging.

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The site integrates the full text of the plays and poems with the entire Glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

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NOTE: The page is no longer updated but is still useful. Create your own interpretation of Shakespeare in one minute - make a film or audio, take a scene or whole play - keep it classic or make it modern, it's up to you. It also has links to other resources on Shakespeare, including newspaper articles telling shakespeare's stories...

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The full text of Shakespeare's sonnets with commentaries and pictures. Since large numbers of the sonnets are printed to single web pages, students can use their browser "find" function to find sonnets with specific keywords and phrases.

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This site about Shakespeare provides biographical information, analysis on sonnets, list of characters and plays, discusses themes, play analyses, Shakespeare's biography, essays, and answers to common Shakespeare questions. It also offers some quizzes on different works

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Choose the lessons you wish to view from the matrix at left. They are presented in a brief, open-ended style to make them easy to adapt to many situations. This website features exemplary models of technology integration across Florida.
The videos on this site require QuickTime 7.

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A brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from. While the complete history of the Internet could easily fill a few books, this article should familiarize you with key milestones and events related to the growth and evolution of the Internet between 1969 to 2009

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In Denmark, the government has taken the bold step of allowing pupils full access to the internet during their final school year exams. A total of 14 colleges in Denmark are piloting the new system of exams and all schools in the country have been invited to join the scheme by 2011.

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A NZ site (netsafe) where they are trying to develop guidelines for schools and government on filtering internet content (and the tension between being safe and having opportunities to learn)

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This post offers a long list of links to ideas for or about differentiated learning

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Really cool application for Web 2 using Geo teachers. Similar to youcube - search engine with visualization and click and watch/listen to each square.

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A good set of links to useful tips on using Twitter for teachers and groups to join or follow

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Another in the series of two-page, simple explanations of new ideas and concepts as they relate to education (mostly college).

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