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BetterLesson - Improving Teachers with Social Networking | The Social Commerce Social Sourcing Space
Online School for Girls welcomes new sister school, Baltimore's St. Paul's School for Girls
OSG, was founded in the spring of 2009 by four independent girls’ schools: Holton–Arms School in Maryland, the Laurel School in Ohio, Harpeth Hall in Tennessee, and the Westover School in Connecticut. It is the first and only online schooling program in the country tailored especially for girls.
Your Money New York - New York State Office of the State Comptroller - Thomas P. DiNapoli, State Comptroller
Welcome to Your Money New York, part of a multi-faceted initiative at the Office of the State Comptroller to promote financial knowledge and education. This program is designed to give New Yorkers the information and tools they need to face the broad variety of money-related issues that may arise over the course of their lives -- whether it is getting out of debt, looking for a job, saving for college or retirement, or buying a car or home.
LodeStar Learning Objects To Work with Equella Digital Repository -- Campus Technology
Educators who create learning content with LodeStar Learning's e-learning authoring tool, lodeStar can now maintain those objects in the Equella Digital Repository from Learning Edge North America.
News: Learning From Online - Inside Higher Ed
Most professors agree that more work goes into designing an online course than a face-to-face one. But if those professors are interested in improving their teaching skills, it might be worth the extra effort.
Letters - Does a Teacher Own the Lesson Plan? - NYTimes.com
Letter to the NYTimes Editor in response to "Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Cash and Questions"
Power of Twitter
Great Google docs share (spreadsheet) list on the power of Twitter in education.
Edline - Heart of the Learning Community
Edline provides the world's leading technology solutions that help schools improve student performance by harnessing the power of parental involvement, supporting teachers, and engaging the learning community.\n\nEdlline offers an array of technology solutions that support this mission: web hosting, content management, information portals, and tools for classroom management, gradebook, notification, analytics, virtual storage and related technologies-all of which can be deployed individually or together as part of an integrated and comprehensive Learning Community Management System.
Games Evolve as Tools for Teaching Financial Literacy
Although a majority of states do not require financial-literacy classes in K-12 schools, the nation's recent economic struggles have spurred growing interest in the subject by educators-many of whom are turning to digital-game-based approaches to teach students about personal finance and investing.
The online course and campus for financial literacy
Designed by and for digital users, MoneyU creates a whole new paradigm in financial learning. Goodbye boring textbooks and lectures. Hello integrated videos, cartoons, humor, widgets and simulations.
Skill-Life, Inc. - Rewards, Games and Life Skills for Kids
SKILL-LIFE’s game-based platform lets youth earn real-world rewards as they play cool games that teach them life skills such as financial literacy, nutrition, and citizenship! Our mission is to provide families fun, effective, and easily-accessible tools that increase young people’s real-world savvy.
Everfi - Online Financial Literacy Education Platform
Unique web-based online financial literacy solutions for secondary schools (independent, public, parochial), post-secondary, nonprofits and others.
Independent Means Inc.
The IMI Vision: To help raise a new generation with skills that ensure financial self-reliance and well being, and values that support lives of purpose and passion.Mission Statement: Independent Means strives to be the ultimate source of financial education and information.
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave
Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.
School Town | K12 Online Learning, Student engagement, organization
School Town is a new online learning platform designed specifically for K12 to empower teachers, engage students, and share information with parents. The hosted platform gives each teacher a class site to deliver any curriculum and secure Web2.0 tools for safe student collaboration. We make online teaching easy and help students realize their full potential.
The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators
This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators
Education Week: Former Apple Executive to Lead U.S. Ed-Tech Office
After months of anticipation about who would head educational technology initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education, ed-tech advocates praised the appointment of Karen Cator yesterday, saying the former educator and Apple executive brings to the job a passion for the potential of technology to improve teaching and learning.
Spectrum K12 School Solutions Uses Neotys to Load Test Special Education Software | Reuters
Neotys, a leader in easy-to-use, cost effective stress and load testing tools for web applications, today announced that Spectrum K12 School Solutions, the leading provider of student achievement management, Response to Intervention (RTI) and special education IEP software is using Neotys` NeoLoad to load test its EXCEED/RTI based on Adobe Flex technology. By using NeoLoad, Spectrum was able to diminish load testing time for a single scenario from 4 hours to 15 minutes, reducing testing time by 94%.
Moodlerooms announces joule platform at EDUCAUSE | Education IT | ZDNet.com
In more EDUCAUSE news, Moodlerooms, introduced its joule Learning Management Platform today. While Moodle is well-known open source technology in educational circles, many institutions lack the time or internal expertise to fully leverage its capabilities. Moodlerooms has filled the gap, providing Moodle implementations in a variety of settings. Now, however, many of the features that users either built themselves or found via third parties are integrated into the company’s joule platform.
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