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Interactive whiteboards provide myriad opportunities for your students—and one that's often overlooked is independent or small group instruction. Using interactive technology on a smaller scale is a great way to allow students to interact on the material in a personal way that's efficient, effective and—you guessed it—interactive. Here are five ideas.

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How does the mind work — and how does it learn? Teachers' instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such gut knowledge often serves us well, but is there anything sturdier to rely on?

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A recent study indicates that  online learning is as effective as, if not more, than traditional face to face instruction.

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Differentiated Instruction and the SMART Board will examine different learning styles and how you can use the SMART Board to meet the needs of your different learners. We will look at adding images, sounds,   video, text and multimedia to meet the needs of students and then cover various tips and tricks for effective lesson design. Differentiated instruction that can be incorporated into lesson design with instructional organizers, strategies, skills, tactics and concepts and the SMART Board will be demonstrated. 

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A lot of training is using video and it’s becoming very easy to create and distribute. As things become easier and cheaper we often see the quality decrease. For example, if you had to spend $10,000 to hire a camera crew to come out and do a video shoot then you’d probably have all of the scripts and talent well prepared. However, if you can quickly create a video on your handheld camera and upload it to YouTube then you might be tempted to just “wing-it”.

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Challenge is a powerful motivator when students take on tasks they find meaningful and, through their efforts and perseverance, succeed. As Mark Twain wrote, “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

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We have students in our classrooms who struggle academically and others who learn at an advanced level and accelerated pace.  We can meet the needs of all learners by differentiating instruction. 

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Learn it in 5 is a comprehensive how-to instructional video library for teachers using technology in the classroom. Learn classroom strategies for Web 2.0 teaching technology with powerful how-to videos on most Web 2.0 applications.

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Instructional strategies determine the approach a teacher may take to achieve learning objectives.
Five categories of instructional strategies and explanation of these five categories can be found within this site.

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The purpose of this wiki is to show how technology can support differentiated instructional strategies in today’s diverse classrooms. I encourage all educators to contribute their knowledge, strategies, and resources to make this a useful guide for harnessing the power of web 2.0 tools to meet the needs of all learners

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Customizing your teaching to suit each child makes eminent sense. Kids are different, they learn differently, so we should teach them differently, right? But when you're staring out at 20 or 30 students as individual as snowflakes, you may find yourself asking that ever-daunting question: "How?"

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 "Seven Principles" Collection of Ideas for Teaching and Learning with Technology

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Mathtrain.TV is a free educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA

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Today’s classrooms are diverse and inclusive by nature. Differentiation of instruction and assessment and the
principles of universal design are now recognized practices for teachers.

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Resources for teachers, coaches, parents, administrators...

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A short explanation of what makes the World Wide Web work: browsers, packets, servers addresses and links.

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