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• BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF

  from New York Zoos and Aquarium

  tags: avatar, animals, kids, elementary

• The Colossal Squid Exhibition - Build A Squid - Interactive

  build a squid and track it

  tags: science, curriculum, k-12, elementary

• Books: Death to Cursive Writing | Newsweek Books | Newsweek.com

  "Penmanship, like hieroglyphics and the IBM Selectric, has lost its purpose. Let's erase it for good."

  tags: cursive, handwriting, keyboarding, curriculum

• 21st Century Schools | Clif's Notes

  tags: 21stcenturylearning, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching

• 3 Great Social Media Policies to Steal From

  tags: social media, online_safety, online_publishing, Policies

• Free Online MIT Course Materials for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare

  tags: mit, elearning, education, science, math, technology, learning, curriculum

• Botanicalls » Kits

  tags: twitter, plants

• PBS Teachers | PBS Teachers . Resource Roundups

  PBS resources for teaching and learning.

  tags: social studies, science, health, math, communication arts, curriculum, AP

• Call for Beta Testers of NETS Draft Rubric | ISTE Connects - Educational Technology

  tags: iste, Standards-based, rubrics, nets, instructional-technology, technology-integration

• IDLA Website - Blackboard

  tags: idaho, virtual_school, online_learning

• Idaho Digital Learning Academy

  tags: virtual_school, online_learning, idaho

• Montana Content Standards & Performance Descriptors

  OPI Content Standards Page

  tags: curriculum, Standards-based, education

• As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com

  tags: nytimes, textbooks, curriculum

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• Adobe - Digital School Collection teacher resources

  tags: adobe, lessonplans, digitalstorytelling, education, resources

• tamaleaver / Sources of Legally Reusable Media

  tags: creativecommons, copyright, fairuse

• 14 Ways K–12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media by Joyce Valenza

  tags: library, library2.0, socialmedia

• Thinking in Mind: How Rubrics Should Drive What We Teach

  tags: health, physical_education, rubrics, assessment

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• Seth's Blog: Things to ask before you redo your website

  tags: Websites, website, design

• did you know #1 quick facts you might find interesting

  tags: professional_development, statistics

• Smokescreen § Homepage

  online game designed to teach the pitfalls of sharing too much information online

  tags: onlinesafety, online_safety, social networking, health, cybersafety

• LeaderTalk: Why my IPhone is STILL Smarter Than Your Kid's Teacher

  tags: iphone, 1:1, 1to1, instructional-technology

• LeaderTalk: New Relationships with Content - Annotated

  "In stark contrast, outside of the classroom, "content" is positioned in a drastically different way. We are simultaneously filters, producers, and co-creators of content. Successful producers of content must do more than simply churn out meaningless facts and ideas. "

  tags: TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, curriculum, digital citizenship, digital literacy

• Heresy, or 21st learning? No more pencils, lots more fun

  No rows of desks in this classroom, and no teacher lecturing at the front.

  tags: TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching

• The Committed Sardine - blog

  "In fact, recent studies have shown that using online technology and creating communities of learning through digital connections has proved to be more useful to learning than most face-to-face encounters. So making the assumption that face-to-face is more effective can become prohibitive for our students."

  tags: online_learning, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, virtual_school

• Keyboarding, word processing, writing process, research continuum

  tags: keyboarding

• Celebrity Punnett Squares at Bionic Teaching

  what is the math of personality?

  tags: math, social studies, biology, science, curriculum

• Conan the Barbarian Has the Answer at Bionic Teaching

  How would various historical figures answer the question, "What is best in life?"

  tags: video in the classroom, history, social studies

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org

  tags: moodle, education, onlinesafety, chat, digital citizenship

• Kimberly Moritz BlogPosts

  example of blog "newsletter" to the community

  tags: admin, example

• ThinkQuest : Library

  Library of ThinkQuest projects

  tags: research, curriculum, science, health, social studies

• Globaloria: Social Networks for Global Learning

  The Globaloria Program was established by the World Wide Workshop Foundation in the spring of 2006. A network of educational, programmable websites and related wikis and blogs, the Globaloria Program prepares young people (13 and older) to use technology, specifically to become makers of interactive games and simulations, for their own personal and professional development and for the social and economic benefit of their communities.

  tags: socialnetworking, social networking, global, science, health, social studies, curriculum

• Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal

  Value of social networking in schools; article highlights web resources with an educational focus.

  tags: social networking, collaboration, curriculum

• Culture Quest

  CultureQuest involves students and teachers engaged in inquiry-based classroom projects that explore other peoples and cultures. Projects are based on students’ questions and interests and involve the focused, intensive study of one or more aspects of the art, music, literature, religion, values, daily life customs and traditions of other cultures. Students supplement traditional resources with extensive use of the Internet, both for information and for communication with knowledgeable adults and peers in the country they are studying. Their completed work becomes part of a class web site, which may be accessed at this site.

  tags: Culture, social studies, collaboration, global, projects

• UNICEF - Voices of Youth

  tags: global, education, Culture, social studies

• iEARN - International Education and Resource Network

  iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world.

  tags: global, collaboration, education, projects, curriculum, social studies

• Global SchoolNet: Home

  global connections through a number of projects on diplomacy, cultural studies, and hands-on learning.

  tags: education, projects, elearning, Culture, social studies, health, science

• Blue Zones

  tags: health, science, education, fitness, curriculum

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 11 Essential tools for Global Collaboration

  tags: web2.0, social media, transforming_teaching, collaboration

• Seth's Blog: The problem with non

  what should schools take away from these thoughts?

  tags: marketing, non-profit, social media

• Culture

  fascinating slide deck of netflix's approach to corporate identity.

  tags: Culture, netflix, management, leadership, professional_development

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• Algebra I Blog

  tags: BlogsinSchools, examples_of_student_work

• AP Calculus AB / FrontPage

  tags: wikis, examples_of_student_work

• 2¢ Worth » The Evolution of Evolution

  tags: science, biology, evolution, curriculum, data, visualization

• Last Exit to Nowhere

  movie themed t-shirts

  tags: t-shirts, clothes, design, tshirts

• 13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators

  tags: image, graphics, photos, tools, professional_development

• How to use Video to Improve your Fencing

  tags: fencing, video_training, sports psychology

• A blog post, a tweet, a connection | The Thinking Stick

  example of power of the network to extend students' learning

  tags: blogging, BlogsinSchools, social networking

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• Education Week: Filtering Fixes

  tags: filtering, censoring, online_safety

• Justin Reich - Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access

  tags: filtering, censoring, online_safety

• Use Online Video in Your Classroom | Edutopia

  tags: education, youtube, video in the classroom

• Education Week: Filtering Fixes

  tags: filtering, censoring, online_safety

• Digital Education: With Internet Filtering, Less Is More?

  tags: filtering, censoring, online_safety

• Stephen's Lighthouse: The State of News

  Newsosaur is reporting this:
  
  Newspaper ads tracking to $10B sales drop
  
  "In round numbers, total newspaper advertising sales are likely to drop by $10 billion in 2009, which would put them roughly one-third lower than they were in the prior disastrous year.

  tags: professional_development, media

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: 6 Actions to Virtual Schools in Texas

  tags: virtual_school, online_learning

• I declare September, Avatar Month (or who are you?) - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal

  tags: avatar, online_safety, student_safety

• Philly Teacher: Free Kid-Friendly Avatar Creators - Annotated

  tags: avatar, online_safety, student_safety

• copyrightfriendly - Avatar Makers

  tags: avatar, online_safety, web2.0, student_safety, online_learning

• Project RED - Revolutionizing Education

  tags: 1:1, 1to1

• The New Liteeacy: Technology Reviviving Not Killing Writing While Pushing Literacy in Bold New Directions

  tags: literacy, writing, curriculum

• YouTube - cleveland bear sighting

  fake bear in real news story
  From the comments on YouTube:
  It's like, the Daily Show has made fun of mainstream media for so long, the MSM are now recreating the DS spoofs. Which came first? Lol....

  tags: professional_development, video editing, video_in_the_classroom, video, medialiteracy

• Keyboarding, or the lack thereof. | A Piece of My Mind

  tags: keyboarding, CTE, Business, curriculum

• Ancient History - Keyboarding

  tags: keyboarding, CTE, Business, curriculum

• Oregon Business News » 45% Employers use Facebook-Twitter to screen job candidates

  Forty-five Percent of Employers Use Social Networking Sites to Research Job Candidates, CareerBuilder Survey Finds
  Career Expert Provides DOs and DON’Ts for Job Seekers on Social Networking

  tags: social networking, safety, onlinesafety, online_safety, employment

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Cool Science: Home

  tags: science, biology, curriculum, health

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Biomedical Research & Science Education (HHMI)

  tags: science, biology, medicine, Health, curriculum

• Equal Exchange - Fair Trade Fundraiser Program: Educational Tools

  tags: social studies, economics, curriculum

• Earth Science Week

  tags: science, geology, earth science, curriculum

• Scitable | Learn Science at Nature

  A free science library and personal learning tool brought to you by Nature Publishing Group, the world's leading publisher of science.
  Scitable currently concentrates ongenetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge.

  tags: genetics, science, curriculum, biology

• Henry Hudson 400 | Amsterdam - New York | April - September 2009

  tags: history, geography, maps, socialstudies, curriculum

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• Study finds that 10- and 11-year-olds already have notions about ideal body composition - Wellness - TIME.com

  tags: health, curriculum

• YouTube - Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial

  tags: professional_development, failure, learning

• YouTube - Famous Failures

  tags: professional_development, failure, learning

• YouTube - Seth Godin & Tom Peters on blogging.

  tags: blog, blogging

• More ‘Evidence’ of Intelligent Design Shot Down by Science | Wired Science | Wired.com

  tags: evolution, science, biology, curriculum

• Great Book Stories / FrontPage

  tags: library, library2.0

• K12 Online Conference 2009 | Leading the ChangeBeyond the Stacks: Using Emerging Technologies to Strengthen Teacher-librarian Leadership

  tags: library, library2.0, k12_online_2009

• Little evidence laptops helped students' reading, math

  tags: 1:1, 1to1, laptops

• Bernard

  tags: 1:1

• Biology on the iPhone and iPod Touch | Biology in Action

  apps for iphone/itouch that provide some interactive science

  tags: science, curriculum, iphone, iPod, interactive

• E.gg Timer - simple online countdown timer

  a simple egg timer
  

  tags: timer

• Freshman Transition Initiative

  tags: CTE, Career_Pathways, freshman_transition

• Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com

  tags: motivation, psychology, ted.com, danielpink, incentives, learning, professional_development

• LearnCentral

  tags: socialnetworking, professional development, collaboration, education, technology

• 2¢ Worth » This is Not about YouTube - Annotated

  tags: youtube, web2.0, video_in_the_classroom

• ALA | Interpretations

  Although the Articles of the Library Bill of Rights are unambiguous statements of basic principles that should govern the service of all libraries, questions do arise concerning application of these principles to specific library practices.
  
  Following are those documents designated by the Intellectual Freedom Committee as Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights and background statements detailing the philosophy and history of each. For convenience and easy reference, the documents are presented in alphabetical order. These documents are policies of the American Library Association, having been adopted by the ALA Council.

  tags: ALA, censorship, intellectual_freedom, Information fluency, digital citizenship, all_teachers, digitalcitizenship, bestpractices

• Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use.

  tags: wordle, filter

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• elete Code Makes Money for Rights-Holders | Epicenter | Wired.com

  Every minute, the world uploads roughly 20 hours of video to Google’s YouTube site, according to Zamost. Here’s what happens when it encounters YouTube’s ContentID system.

  tags: copyright, professional_development, youtube, video_in_the_classroom

  • Every minute, the world uploads roughly 20 hours of video to Google’s YouTube site, according to Zamost. Here’s what happens when it encounters YouTube’s ContentID system

• 12 best places to get free images for your site | News | TechRadar UK

  tags: photos, freeimages, graphics, professional_development, powerpoint

• Pirate Tech: A day done right - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  tags: technology-integration, professional_development

• Mobile Learning Institute

  The Mobile Learning Institute’s film series “A 21st Century Education” profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. “A 21st Century Education” compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.

  tags: 21stcenturyskills, 21stcenturylearning, video, professional_development, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, administrator, all_teachers, technology, digitalcitizenship, professionaldevelopment

• The Fischbowl: More Than a Passing Trend

  tags: twitter

• Weblogg-ed » “Willing to be Disturbed”

  tags: 1:1, 1to1, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching

• Schoolkid Laptops: How Portugal's Doing It Right

  tags: 1:1, 1to1, laptops

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• Education Week: Teachers Pick Up Tips on Evolution Instruction

  tags: science, curriculum, evolution

• Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie

  "If you can type, you can make movies."

  tags: animation, web2.0, moviemaking, text to speech

• 1GB 1980 v 2009 (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels)

  tags: presentations, computers

• 100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future | Clear View Education Blog

  tags: teachers, blog, edtech, teaching, resources

• Student Bloggers | Electronic Frontier Foundation

  The Bloggers' FAQ on Student Blogging addresses legal issues arising from student blogging. It focuses on blogging by high school (and middle school) students, but also contains information for college students.

  tags: EFF, electronic frontier foundation, student_blog

• Thinking Machine / Think Social Media Guidelines

  tags: socialnetworking, socialmedia, aup, guidelines, social networking

• Acceptable Internet Use Policies - A Handbook, Virginia Department of Education

  Virginia K-12 educators and students use instructional resources via LAN, WAN, the Internet, and other electronic devices. Administrators, teachers, library media specialists, and students must monitor the use of technologies for grade-level and content appropriateness, ethics, and safety.

  tags: aup, online_safety, online_publishing, student_safety

• Blogging letter - Bud the Teacher's Wiki

  tags: blogging, students, AUP, student_blog, online_publishing

• School AUP 2.0 | Main / HomePage browse

  This is a dynamic document designed to support teachers, school media specialists, and education leaders in developing, maintaining, and enforcing policies

  tags: aup, policy

• TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through

  tags: wiki, aup, wikis

• TeachersFirst: Wiki Walk-Through

  tags: wiki, web2.0

• Keeping Paper Safe for Students – An Imaginary AUP | Milobo's Musings

  This week, I spent some time exploring Acceptable Use Policies from schools around the country and found that an alarming number of them were somewhere between excessively prohibitive and just plain silly. In a world where technology has become a part of virtually every thing we do, it seems almost absurd to still think of technology use policies as separate from the everyday policies that govern behavior and learning activities. If something is wrong; it’s wrong regardless of the tool we use to carry out the act.
  
  So, it got me to thinking…what if we carried the theme of creating a separate set of rules for other essential learning tools…

  tags: AUP, student_safety, online_publishing

• TrueNorth: Permission to Publish

  Students need to have this form turned in before they are allowed to publish their work∞ on the web.
  

  tags: student_safety, online_publishing, policy, aup

• Podcast323: R U In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy Guideline? (NECC09 Preso by Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer) » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  tags: necc09, social media, social networking, policy

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• The Principalship: Manager to Leader

  tags: principalship, systems_change, leadership

• The Edurati Review: 10 Principles for the Future of Learning

  tags: macarthur, education, learning, edtech, transforming_teaching, TransformingEducation

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning - Series - The MIT Press

  tags: macarthur, media, learning, education, digitalmedia, TransformingEducation, transforming_society

• Education - Change.org: Teach Citizens' Journalism with YouTube Reporters' Center

  Older teachers often feel up against a wall when told to teach 21st century skills, and it's hard not to sympathize. When they were students, the classroom was a book, paper and pencil world, so it's no surprise that they resist the new media. They have little to no experience with it, academically.
  
  YouTube is here to help, with the new YouTube Reporters' Center channel.

  tags: journalism, interview, integrating_technology, project_based_learning

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• Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote : Stager-to-Go - Annotated

  tags: NECC09, 1:1, 1to1, TransformingEducation

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• Corrupted files for sale to students to buy extra time - Boing Boing

  tags: cheating

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• Bozeman City job requirement raises privacy concerns - Montana's News Station - Fair. Accurate. To the Point. -

  tags: privacy, employment, social networking, facebook

• GPS Academy :: Your complete source for GPS Training

  tags: GPS, tutorial

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• Teaching with Moodle - MoodleDocs

  tags: moodle, moodledocs, teaching, blended_classroom, online_learning

• The Strength of Weak Ties » Integrity or Dishonesty?

  tags: socialbookmarking, dishonesty, 21stcenturylearning

• Students who went on strike over CCTVs in classroom speak - Boing Boing

  tags: cctvs, video in the classroom, privacy, security

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• MSU Billings Library - Home

  tags: msu, library, video_in_the_classroom, integrating_technology

• Screencast: Adding Visuals to Audacity's Audio - Arizona K-12 Center Blog

  tags: screencast, audacity, audio, video, video in the classroom

• Enhancing Education: Teacher Development Video Production

  Here are some general steps for producing and distributing teacher professional development videos as part of your educational outreach plan:

  tags: professional_development, video, professionaldevelopment, curriculum

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• Word Cloud Of Obama And Cheney Speeches | Political Hotsheet - CBS News

  CBS uses wordle to analyze political speeches.

  tags: wordle, professional_development, social studies, communication arts, english

• Peercasting: Students Produce Math Support at NC Middle School : May 2009 : THE Journal

  tags: peercasting, podcasting, math, curriculum, science, audio, peercoaching, integrating_technology

• 5 Reasons Why Educators Need To Embrace Internet Technologies

  tags: integrating_technology, professional_development

• Geocacher University-Let's Go Geocaching! - Home

  tags: geocaching, gps

• Geocaching Gear is here - CoinsAndPins.com

  tags: geocaching

• Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk

  tags: persuasion, communication

• It’s Not Just A Tool: Technology As Environment | always learning

  tags: technology, integrating_technology, curriculum

• Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies - Educational Resources

  tags: cybersafety, online_safety, onlinesafety

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• Bloomsbury Academic

  Bloomsbury Academic is a new scholarly imprint with a new business model. We publish research-led books across the humanities and social sciences and seek to develop innovative lists on a thematic basis, in fields of current global interest. We are the first major publishing company to provide online access to our research-based books free of charge.

  tags: creativecommons, creative_commons, opencourseware, opensource

• Fence Like A Train: Write the Score, that He May Not Embarrass Himself

  tags: fencing, training, sports psychology

• Kerpoof Scholastics™

  tags: kerpoof, lessonplans, web2.0, writing, education, communication arts, english

• Project Based Learning

  tags: pbl, projects, resources, education, project_based_learning

• You've done the work . . . . Now Get Credit! | ESSDACK Self Directed Staff Development

  tags: self-directed, professionaldevelopment, professional_development

• Blogging in the Classroom | A Piece of My Mind

  tags: Blogging, BlogsinSchools, writing

• Create and Collaborate on Online Diagrams - Try it Free | Creately

  tags: mindmapping, collaboration, web2.0, diagrams

• EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing

  tags: collaboration, writing, web2.0, etherpad

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• Black Cover Archives

  tags: organization, notebook

• myndology :: good thinking

  tags: organization, notebook

• Quite possibly the only song dedicated to mitochondria, ever! : The World's Fair

  tags: biology, science, curriculum, audio, multimedia

• Podcasts (Library of Congress)

  tags: podcasts, libraryofcongress, loc, social studies, Brain research, audio

• District Administrators See Advantages of Web 2.0 in School : May 2009 : THE Journal

  tags: web2.0, administrators, transforming_teaching, integrating_technology

• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

  tags: digital storytelling, digitalstorytelling, web2.0

• The Impact of Quantum Learning

  tags: learning, education, teaching, professional_development, TransformingEducation

• Scribble Maps - Draw on google maps with scribblings and more!

  tags: googlemaps, geography, map, maps, interactive, iwb, interwrite

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• Microphones: Make Your Podcasts Sound Great

  tags: podcasting, microphone, audio

• Penmachine.com: Our quality basement podcast studio setup | Derek K. Miller, Writer & Editor, Vancouver, Canada

  tags: podcasting, microphone, audio

• Free Acid Loops Beats & Audio Samples Acapellas Vocals Music Sounds FX Tutorials Vsti Plugins

  Looperman is a Free pro audio community for musicians, film and video producers, djs and multi media designers.

  tags: audio, mp3, loops, music, podcasting

• Thoughtcrime Experiments

  Thoughtcrime Experiments is a free 2009 anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories and art, published under a Creative Commons license. It’s available online as HTML, as a downloadable PDF, or as a print-on-demand physical book (coming soon).

  tags: creativecommons, science_fiction

• Communication Arts Collaborative Resource

  Resource for Montana teachers--teaching strategies, assessment ideas, and resources & links.
  

  tags: opi, communication arts, curriculum

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