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10 Inspiring Youtube Videos for Teachers | Teaching News
I get to watch lots of online videos in my search for new additions to my Teaching Videos site. The site now has almost 2,500 educational videos, so I thought that I would share some of my favourites… the most inspirational… the most incredible… the most beautiful… and the most entertaining.
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Digital Kids in Schools: Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Children teaching parents and teachers about the latest high-tech device has become a cliche. The truth at the core of the cliche, however, doesn’t disappear with repetition.
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Techconnects - 15 Digital Citizenship Resources for Schools
15 Digital Citizenship Resources for schools for school leaders, teacher leaders, and families
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Codecademy: Learn to Code Online, Naturally
If you use computers long enough, chances are you’ll eventually want to learn at least a little bit of programming. You can only hear so many stories about exciting new apps and whole businesses built from several thousands lines of code before you start thinking that you could do it, too. Problem is, it’s often daunting to get started programming. Most programming books almost seem too difficult, or else they start out so slow and basic that you’re bored before you even get started.
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40th anniversary of Stairway to Heaven infographic
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Apps in Education: 3 Tools for Creating Augmented Reality for iPad
Augmented Reality seems popular at the moment although many people think it is still beyond our reach as content providers. This has changed recently with the development of a new range of Apps that allow you to implement AR features on your iPad. Have a look at the three we have featured here for a peek at the way educational information could be presented. If you know of other please let us know so we can include them in the list.
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Microsoft, ED Collaborate To Boost Teacher Recruitment Efforts -- THE Journal
Microsoft has begun collaborating with the United States Department of Education, the British Council, and the Smithsonian Institution in projects designed to help prepare educators to use educational technology in the classroom. The announcement was made at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum 2011, a program for improving teaching and learning through the effective use of technology in the classroom.
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Free Kids Clip Art by Phillip Martin, Free Clip Art for Kids
Welcome to Free Clip Art by Phillip Martin!.. Remember, it really is FREE art for your classroom, newsletters,
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BiologyBrowser | Free information from a trusted source
Welcome to the new look BiologyBrowser.
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Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum for Grades 9-12 | Common Sense Media
This FREE, pioneering curriculum is designed to empower teens to be smart about how they create, communicate, and treat others in our 24/7 digital world. Browse the units below to find the right lessons for your students.
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Understanding the Potential Pitfalls of Social Media | Faculty Focus
Whether it’s the professor who creates Twitter backchannels in his courses, the admissions counselor who uses Facebook to engage prospective students, or the librarian who tweets about available resources in the library, higher education professionals have come up with a variety of creative ways to use social media both in and outside of the classroom.
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Wikis in the Classroom: Three Ways to Increase Student Collaboration - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus
I’ve long said that professors who want to explore teaching with technology should begin with a social media tool rather than a Learning Management System. Web 2.0 tools are simple to use, invite student collaboration, and are usually less administratively clunky and complex than an LMS.
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Download Details - Microsoft Download Center - Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office
This add-in enables you to embed Creative Commons licenses directly into Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents.
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The Changing Writing Process | Writing and the Web
Writing online is not about just posting work that was completed by using a pencil. It’s about creating work online using tools that change the way we write. “Web 2.0 challenges the artificial compartmentalization of research and writing that often characterizes instruction in composition classes” (Purdy, 2010, p. 48). Tools allow us to plan, create, edit, revise, share and get feedback in a whole new way. Writing with new tools and with new mediums means new skills, new proficiencies, and new opportunities.
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10 Best Online HTML5 Tools For Designers
HTML5 is a new language for structuring and presenting content on the web. It boasts many great features that make incorporating video, audio, fonts, drag & drop, web graphics & animations into your web pages very easy. HTML5 is backwards compatible so don’t worry about your old designs in HTML 4 or XHML1 they will look just the same as they used to! HTML5 is all over the web already and experts are enhancing it everyday to provide Web Designers & Developers with amazing new features.
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30 Excellent CSS Generators To Make Development Faster
Web designing and developing is not an easy task, so web designers and developers are always keen to get as much help as they can from tools of any kind. These handy tools can help them reduce the time needed to complete a task and ameliorate their productivity — as by using these web design tools developers and designers can create elegant, functional and highly optimized websites.
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Creating your own art cude is easy. Simply add videos, images, audio and words to each side of the cube to show types of art you like. You'll be able to pull content from the internet or add your own.
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Primary School History Encyclopedia
An Online Encyclopedia of British History for Children
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The ultimate guide to Prezi « thewikiman
I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, so here we go: a complete guide to the presentation software Prezi, from what it is and why to use it right up to advanced techniques for making your presentation absolutely killer.
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EslTool.com - ESL evaluations / student assessments / report cards, made easy!
EslTool.com is a site designed for ESL (English as a Second Language) or EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers who want to write evaluations / student assessments / report cards more easily.
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Birgitta Jónsdóttir's Twitter account: a US court has ruled that Twitter must comply with a Department of Justice demand to release private data held by the social media company, which it seeks as part of its investigation into WikiLeaks. Photograph: guardiannews.com
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