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Teaching Kits and Handbooks | Teaching Tolerance
"educational kits and subscriptions to its magazine are FREE to classroom teachers, school librarians, school counselors, school administrators, professors of education, leaders of homeschool networks, youth directors at houses of worship and employees of youth-serving nonprofit organizations."
Free Minds Free People — Education for Liberation Network
"Free Minds, Free People is a national conference that brings together teachers, high school and college students, researchers, parents and community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. "
Why Learning from PowerPoint Lectures is Frustrating
"the biggest influence on the quality of the class, and sometimes the most frustrating, is the teaching style of the professor. Some students just learn better from different styles of teaching than others. Recently I came to the conclusion that I do not learn well from classes in which the lectures are based on PowerPoint presentations."
http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com
Helps students and teachers connect to the geography of literature. All writing has a setting and this connects the reader to the character and where the story took place. It shows pictures, sounds and media that bring literature down to earth, more so to the map on google earth's powerful mapping. requires google earth to be installed on mac, windows, linux
Thinkfinity is Verizon Foundations’s digital learning platform
the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives... improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training. This free, comprehensive digital learning platform is built upon the merger of two acclaimed programs Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network."
FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
find teaching and learning resources from the federal government...More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources ...conceived in 1997 by a federal working group ..relaunched for the first time in November 2006. FREE is maintained by Peter Kickbush and Kirk Winters, Office of Communications and Outreach , with support from the Development Services Team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Education. "
MathSite: An Interactive Source for Seeing, Hearing, Doing Mathematics
"The exhibits of the MathSite are intended for people of all ages who are interested in or are curious about mathematics.
No specialized mathematical knowledge or expertise is assumed."
Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software
"Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. "
:: wickED - Maths interactives ::
New Zeland. a quality-assured online environment for 7–12 year olds ....wickED provides engaging curriculum-based learning activities in English and te reo Māori, many of which have been developed to reflect a literacy, numeracy and ESOL focus. The activities are intended to support facilitated or independent use by students.
About HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework
"HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge."
National Repository of Online Courses - What is NROC?
"The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement*. This non-profit project, supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is an Open Educational Resource (OER) and facilitates collaboration "
National Repository of Online Courses - Working with NROC
"NROC Membership provides access to an online, membership community ...For an annual fee ranging from $3,000 to $100,000.. r... webinars, white papers, iPod downloadable versions of NROC content, participation in content development projects, and campus ownership of collaboratively developed content."
Course: California Algebra - Open Source Algebra
A moodle website about algebra. Good example of a nearly complete web course
Common Stereotypes of Men in Media
"The report Boys to Men: Media Messages About Masculinity, identifies the most popular stereotypes of male characters as the Joker, the Jock, the Strong Silent Type, the Big Shot and the Action Hero."
100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek - Online Courses
Open Source Courses, some from MIT
Culturalwalk1.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
good lesson on diversity training, but the flash animation is too slow, hard to be patient. The first lesson, hopefully more by extension.org for secondary ed social justice
Diversity Learning Lesson Page - eXtension Learning Lessons
The culture page of the Extension project .... "Have you developed a course or collection of lessons for diversity issues? If so, we can modify it to be delivered online. The Moodle course management system is a collection of online tools (glossary, vide
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing | FairTest
"The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial. "
eXtension Professional Development Courses
over 70 universities have partnered , trying to get teachers to co-author online curriculum. So far no social justice lessons, lessons on farming etc.
JUSTICE: the People's News -- Human Rights | Social Justice | Environmental Justice News
a news feed or service "for activists, educators, organizers, and journalists committed to informing themselves about local and global goings-on pertaining to human rights, social justice, environmental justice and activism"
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