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Set Up a Free Math Program For Your Class
Create interactive assignments for your students
- with hints and video lessons. Proven to deliver results.
TenMarks is mapped to state and common core curriculum standards for grades 2 - high school.

Over the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies. What little PD we have seen was devoted mainly to the learning of software and how to operate the latest toys. We have too often placed carts before horses.
Managing learning in the laptop classroom requires considerable savvy. This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning.

"I often get asked how I managed to integrate technology into my classroom before I was a technology teacher teaching in a lab (with every child on a computer). I must preface this post with: I am not an expert. I taught second grade for one year and had two computers in my classroom and no computer lab for the school. I used what I had and found a system that worked for me. With that in mind here is how I made my 2 computer classroom work"

SignUp Genius is a free and easy way to create and organize online sign-up forms for all kinds of group activities. SignUp Genius creates a simple webpage on which people can sign-up for activities that you've specified.

You can make your sign-up sheet public or private. Once you've created your sign-up list visitors to your list can sign-up for the activities you've specified. You can monitor the sign-up list as it is filled and visitors can quickly see which slots are already taken. SignUp Genius provides a myriad of themes and styles for your sign-up sheets. The image below is a screen capture of the sample field trip sign-up sheet that I created on SignUp Genius.

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Business ed teacher uses some of these videos in her class.

Easy way for teachers to manage parent volunteer groups for events, etc. Great, efficient system for teachers.

A provocative title about a very real world topic. Enjoy - and share with discretion (I can point you towards the blog about the Sunday School lesson built around this, if you need it). :-)

Relevant to anyone who works with people. A four-minute summary of Sutton's famous rule. A "free sample" from the 50 Lessons collection. Sutton's lesson is summarized elsewhere as asking: "How do you treat the person right in front of you right now"? Avoid hiring jerks; don't allow anti-social behavior; sometimes you can only get even ("Yes, he's going to LA, but his bags are going to Nairobi"). See also the YouTube selection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGbF2bYFli0&feature=PlayList&p=396BBB6A72B4A59F

sweet.

Online video content management system, that even allows users to REMIX videos online! Your school can download and install the community edition locally to establish an internal video sharing site.

This web site corresponds to the book of the same title by Bill Shackelford. It discusses effective strategies for designing e-learning systems.

To-Do gadget inside Gmail. Convert e-mails to tasks!! Exciting management tool!