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"Start small, make training personally relevant, pair staff with knowledgeable co-workers-and keep it fun, readers recommend"

training and resources for k-12 teachers and students

"Groupboard is a free online whiteboard that you can place on your web page by simply copying a few lines of HTML code. You can also run Groupboard on your own web server. It can be used for tutoring, distance learning, training, or simply for fun! With the whiteboard you can upload background images and draw on top of them, and all users connected to the whiteboard will see the changes in real-time. Works on any web browser including iPad, iPhone and Android with no plugins or downloads required. Free for 5 users. Product details Live demo Free Trial"

Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

Welcome to the MobiMOOC course wiki! If you visit this wiki, you probably want to register for the free, open and online MobiMOOC course which will run from Saturday 8 September - Sunday 30 September 2012 and will focus on learning/training with mobile devices (mLearning).

"More than 10 hours of training over a few weeks is the most effective model of professional development."

"# International Review of Curriculum and Assessment Frameworks Internet Archive: INCA provides descriptions of government policy on education in Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA and Wales. It focuses on curriculum, assessment and initial teacher training frameworks for pre-school, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education in schools (3-19 age range)."

Martin Burrett 07 Aug 11 12:17:23An excellent beginner's guide to the Internet and computing from the BBC. Especially good for staff and parent training. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools

"This site is a resource for educators everywhere to learn how to use YouTube as an educational tool. There are lesson plan suggestions, highlights of great educational content on YouTube, and training on how to film your own educational videos. This site was written by teachers for teachers, and we want to continue that spirit of community-involvement. We're creating a new YouTube newsletter for teachers (sign up above!) and are asking teachers to submit their favorite YouTube playlists for us to highlight on YouTube EDU. "

We should start submitting any tutorial stuff we do that is worth uploading to this channel.

A great free site containing good basic tutorials. Plenty of basic google stuff that could be used to support beginners in apps. Staff training-inset

Google Plus for learning "Innovative ways of using Google Plus (education, training, health, social good)

"Some of these reformers do see Khan Academy as "revolutionizing" education, while others, including lots of educators, contend that Khan Academy is actually far from that. As the title of Clive Thompson's Wired article observes correctly: the rules of education are changing. But is Khan Academy the cause? Or the symptom?"