Finding Common Ground

Enjoy the links! I hope you find them useful:)

• National Education Network GalleryAll the resources in this Gallery have been provided freely for Educational use only.
• Animals Public Domain Pictures, Free Photos, Royalty Free Stock ImagesRoyalty free stock photos. All images are free for commercial and personal use.
• Tools for facilitating PBL? » Moving at the Speed of CreativityOne of the biggest challenges to embracing project-based learning as a teacher, however, is the formidable task of structuring, monitoring, managing and evaluating student work.
• eThemes | eMINTSeThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms.
• It’s No Laughing MatterAnalyzing Political Cartoons – The Learning Page from the Library of Congress
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
• The PBL Launch Pad: Worthwhile Projects for High School Students, Part 2 | EdutopiaProject-based learning has the potential to become one of the most useful and defensible instructional strategies of this age.
• The PBL Launch Pad: Worthwhile Projects for High School Students, Part 1 | EdutopiaA project-based-learning teacher and coach writes about “the most effective tool for organizing content and motivating students to think hard.”
• Collaborative Videoconferences wiki – Join a collaborative community genera…This wiki is a collection of educator-created templates and projects for collaborative videoconferences.
• Facebook and Google in Reference Checks – What Employers Use to Research YouSocial networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and search engines like Yahoo and Google have become very popular for employers to search and screen applicants.
• Computerworld – Wikipedia breeds ‘unwitting trust’ says IT professorStudents banned from citing Wikipedia in coursework.
• skrbl: easy to share online whiteboardShare resources with your team, co browse the web, annotate shared documents, video phone, skype calls … share ideas, communicate & sync like never before. ‘team-skrbl’ is the next best thing to being in the same room.
• Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla – Painless Team Collaboration for the WebTwiddla is a free web-based whiteboarding software, but also a complete online collaboration solution
• Math Video Help, Math Worksheets, Math Word ProblemsAt TuLyn, we have hundreds of video tutorials on math. Our video clips cover most math topics you learn from kindergarten to high school. Our math video clips provide you all the math help you need.
• OpenDOAR – Home Page – Directory of Open Access RepositoriesAs well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. Additionally, we provide tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and improving the quality of the repository infrastructure.
• Directory of open access journalsThis service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
• NoodleTools : MLA / APA Bibliography Composer, Notecards, Free Research ToolsNoodleTools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process.
• NoteStar : A Project Based Learning Research ToolNoteStar is an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar’s many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page.
• Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Easily view an application’s icons
• Primary PreoccupationThoughts from a grade one teacher.
• Speak Up Press Release – AnnotatedStudents Want the 21st Century Classroom, but Schools Not Meeting Student Expectations, According to Latest National Study
• Site administration block – MoodleDocsStep by step directions for the headings under Site Administration.
• Course: Introduction to the Moodle System Administration PanelDirect link to moodle system administration panel.
• Project TomorrowPreparing today’s students to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens
• Staff DevelopmentSome of the documents from our staff development sessions at Central Bucks East.

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