Sites to See 09/27/2008
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Create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, PowerPoint and more with your voice, notes and highlights.
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Put to the Test: Confronting Concerns About Project Learning | Edutopia
Questions abound about the inquiry-based teaching approach. Here are answers, from how to meet standards to how to keep control of the classroom.
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Built by teachers for teachers, use myprojectpages.com to create structured online inquiry-based learning activities for the courses you teach that enable your students to engage in meaningful learning experiences while online.
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courses you teach that enable your students to engage in meaningful
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Built by teachers for teachers, use myprojectpages.com
to create structured online inquiry-based learning activities for the
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Handbrake: How to Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod or iPhone Using Free Software
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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em : August 2007 : THE Journal
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One of the roles of education is to help students learn to socialize,” says Karen Greenwood Henke, chair of the Emerging Technologies Committee at the Consortium for School
Networking (CoSN), -
It has given me a whole different relationship with my students,” Messier says. “They
can message me and it’s private, or they’ll e-mail me. It’s like we are more of a community
and I’m not just a teacher—I can be a friend at the same time.”
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A web-based online learning community sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation as a safe space for students to collaborate and share knowledge. It features tools to enable students to publish their own websites and to collaborate on projects with other participating students anywhere in the world.
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An offshoot of the global-awareness social networking site TakingITGlobal, where teachers can get their students involved in issues that affect the environment, and other contemporary topics. The site features an activities database, discussion boards, thematic classrooms, and other tools, and teachers control the environment. It’s currently being used in more than 700 classrooms in 39 countries. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Canada are corporate sponsors, and more than 10 educational foundations also support the site.
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Free Social Network for Kids, Teachers & Parents – imbee – imbee
A web-based site developed for the tweener set. Features a spot for teachers to have their own class pages and even includes lesson plans. The animated look draws kids in, and the site has all the social networking gadgets of the larger sites, but the teacher areas are open only to whomever the teacher allows in—other teachers, students, and parents. This site gets contributed content from its corporate sponsors, which include PBS and Disney.
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