Group items tagged

For more than a year now, Apple's iTunes U has served as a repository of educational multimedia content and resources. While these materials have always been accessible to K-12 educators, the focus of the content has been primarily on post-secondary education. But through a new initiative launched by several state education agencies, along with the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA), K-12 now has its own home within iTunes U.

Interactive Activities for subject area contents

miscellaneous education subject-contents

Textbook companies over the years have tried to address this problem by providing additional add-ons and perks with their textbooks, such as CDs or DVDs with information that had been added since the book was published, websites that kept the content current by providing "up-to-date" information about a topic, or by trying to get states to adopt a quicker refresh cycle. None of these tactics have been successful.

There's a long history of comics in the classroom, and the list of references at the end of this article is a great starting point for learning about this concept. While there's still resistance to this medium being used in education - whether by staff or students - there is also a growing movement to use every valuable tool available. Comics have some great uses in the classroom and in a variety of curricula. From pre-readers to high school students, from English to ESL to Science and Math, comics can help students analyze, synthesize and absorb content that may be more difficult when presented in only one way.

FOSS 3D content creation suite for modeling, shading, animating, rendering & composing interactive 3D characters.

bulleted, short information about Internet learning

Transforming Teaching Through Technology (T4)