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Teachers using Twitter, social media sites to engage students
"Teachers are getting lesson plan ideas from far-flung colleagues via Twitter. Skype conversations are being hosted in classrooms. And students are being introduced to social media and being schooled on how it can benefit them professionally."
Backchanneling with Elementary School Students
A great blogpost about using "chat channels" with primary school students but for that matter with any students.
PhotoPeach - free photo slideshows with music
storytellingTell better stories online using photos. You can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family in a natural way. This is done by allowing two-way commenting right at each photo in the show and automatically pausing so you have time to express yourself before continuing. It also supports zooming comments, sound-effect smilies, and music so you can elaborate on your story further.
The Periodic Table of Videos
Lovely resource for science teachers with little videos for every element
Southern African Geography Teachers Network
This is a google group e-mail network for Southern African teachers
Writing lesson plans for teachers from the Expo Writing Resource Center
Sharpen your learners writing skills
Safe Schools in a Web 2.0 World
"New research indicates educators view Web 2.0 technologies as a means to transform education and meet 21st century learning goals, but district leadership and support are critical to ensure safe and effective use"
Teens Spend More Time Chatting Than Studying, Survey Finds - High School Connections - Education Week
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They're bored because the material isn't interesting (more than 80 percent), isn't relevant (more than 40 percent), is too difficult (about one quarter), is too easy (about one third), or because they have no interaction with their teachers (about one third).
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages.
| ShowDocument is a collaborative Web Meeting, Document Sharing
You can share documents, videos, write on a whiteboard (collaboratively) there is a text editor and a shared browser. Interesting.
Debating the propriety of blanket censorship by school IT departments » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
“we need to make sure that networks work FOR THE USERS, not the IT department.”
Algodoo : 2D-simulation 2 explain our real world using physics
Algodoo is a 2D-simulation environment for creating interactive scenes in a playful, cartoony manner, making use of the physics that we use to explain our real world. Algodoo is designed to encourage young people’s own creativity, ability and motivation to construct knowledge. The synergy of science and art makes Algodoo as educational as it is entertaining. Algodoo applies a constructionistic learning paradigm - learning by designing, constructing and exploring physical systems.
Ebook: Open Schooling in the 21st Century (COL)
The expansion of secondary education is now the world’s most pressing educational challenge. This carefully prepared and thoroughly researched book should inspire policy-makers and educational planners to explore how open schooling can expand secondary education cost-effectively in their jurisdictions.
Foswiki free and open source enterprise collaboration platform
Foswiki is the free and open source enterprise collaboration platform
Foswiki is a wiki, so you and your team members can collaborate and edit pages directly in the web browser.
For advanced collaboration, Foswiki lets you enter macros (similar to Excel) to automate pages and build entire applications from within your browser.
Digital School Library Leaves Book Stacks Behind
This school did away with a traditional library and opted for a complete digital experience for their learners.
Resource wiki for presenters and change agents in schools
"The Moving Forward wiki houses a collection of resources to help presenters and change agents as they help move schools and universities forward into the 21st century. If you have a resource to add, please do so!"
Biology Questions & answers
This site was specially written and organized to make Biology learning easier. More than 1800 questions and answers are available to help you study Biology in the easiest way possible.
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