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Resources to highlight various ways to use Google Apps for instruction and student use.
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Welcome to 2Learn.ca's site, Web 2.0 Tools site - an aggregate of selected Web 2.0 Tools, and teacher resources to support each type of tool.
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Core Principles of MLE : National Association for Media Literacy Education
As the field of media literacy education has matured over the past 25 years, its focus has evolved from WHAT is taught to HOW we teach.
The Core Principles of Media Literacy Education is a NAMLE project to expand the boundaries of the field and encompass the opportunities and possibilities of 21st century learning technologies to transform both learning and teaching – from kindergarten to college. -
Wufoo is a web application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun.
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The circumference of a circle is the distance around the outside of the circle. It could be called the perimeter of the circle.
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29 Steps to Internet Safety for Kids « Ask a Tech Teacher
This is a great list from Deb Ng, founder and former owner of the Freelance Writing Jobs. I thought hard about what she’d written to see if I could add anything, enhance or disagree.
You have to teach internet safety. It's not part of the human genome.
Nothing. It’s a great list, as good as any I’ve seen since social media exploded on the education landscape -
Begin the entry in the works-cited list with the author’s real name and, in parentheses, user name, if both are known and they differ. If only the user name is known, give it alone.
Next provide the entire text of the tweet in quotation marks, without changing the capitalization. Conclude the entry with the date and time of the message and the medium of publication (Tweet). For example:
Athar, Sohaib (ReallyVirtual). “Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).” 1 May 2011, 3:58 p.m. Tweet. -
The iPad and Maths – Are we there yet? Pt 2 (non Math apps do the job?)
My last post focused on the state of apps related to Numeracy education and concluded that the iPad has a fair way to go in how it is being utilized to develop number skills through the current crop of Maths applications. On the whole, there are too many apps focused on rote learning and simple number facts and equations. Having said that, I actually believe the iPad has much to offer teachers and students in Mathematics. However, don’t go looking for the apps in the Education section of the App Store.
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Choose a secret password. This is your top-secret password that you never tell anyone or write down.
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10 Strategies for Non-Profits on Pinterest
Non-profits are utilizing Pinterest as an extension of their organizations, using photography, infographics and other visuals to show supporters more about their missions.
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Your Privacy Kind of Sucks, Fix it Up This Weekend
Google released a new privacy policy this week, reminding us that the services and apps we use aren't free—we pay for them with our privacy. This weekend, take a look at your digital life and audit your privacy settings to keep your personal information as locked down as possible.
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My Story - Book Maker for Kids
My Story is the simplest story maker and book creator in the App Store. Children can draw, use photos, record voice, type, and then send their finished creations to family and friends.
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Switching to iPads saves Vancouver City Council 50K pages a year
The city of Vancouver, Wash., has seen substantial savings since switching to Apple's iPad for City Council meetings and expects to save as many as 50,000 pages of printing per year.
Vancouver began its paperless City Council test in January. After two months, the transition to iPads has brought about a 40 percent reduction in the amount of pages printed for meetings. -
Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids | GeekDad | Wired.com
At GeekDad we are committed to helping you raise geek generation 2.0, and we believe few things that you do are more important than reading to your kids early and often. The social science is in, vocabulary is a major predictor of cognitive development in your children. Reading to them is a great way to get them using the language centers of their brain. Plus some of the best times we have had with our children have come while watching their eyes glisten as Harry looks in the Mirror of Erised or listening to their giggles as they discover the joys and absurdities of Shel Silverstein’s poetry. Reading aloud to your kids can be a blast.
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The Joke Is On Us: How Ruby 1.9 Supports the Goto Statement - Pat Shaughnessy
The goto statement is one of the most infamous and troublesome features of old, archaic languages like Fortran. It allowed programmers to quickly create spaghetti code that was confusing and impossible to understand. Thankfully when structured programming came into use in the late 1960s and 1970s with Algol, Pascal and later C, goto was no longer necessary.
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History and Geography teaching resources - elementary school | Scoop.it
History and Geography teaching resources - elementary school
“I'd like to find lesson plans and other resources, as well as web 2 tools relating to history and geography, ”
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