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Created by the Federal Trade commission to address advertising literacy to students 12 to 18

Go to the National Book Festival for an hour long chat with the authors as they bring this to an end.

An example of the change in leadership was immediately shown on the Whitehouse.gov website. As promised, there is more information available and as shown in this picture you can see multiple feeds to stay abreast of the information. http://www.flickr.com/photos/krossbow/3212541413/

These practice items provide examples of the new content and increased rigor represented by the revised Standards of Learning (SOL) and illustrate the new Technology-Enhanced Item types for the mathematics, reading, science, and writing SOL tests.  Technology-Enhanced Items (TEI) require students to indicate their responses in ways other than a multiple-choice format.

Ed Tech Competitive Grants, funded with ESEA and ARRA funds, support programs that stimulate the use of educational technology to improve teaching and learning. Grants assist schools in developing 21st century classrooms as envisioned by the Educational Technology Plan for Virginia: 2010 - 2015

"On your own for professional development? Earn a certificate of completion by taking the Library's self-paced interactive modules. Each multimedia-rich program delivers approximately one hour of staff development."

US Department of Agriculture Image Library

Oldie but a decent one from the government for images and pictures. Remember that with most government sites you are free to use the pictures but some such as NASA do require that you cite the source.

This looks great! Thanks Fred.

via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/03/nasa-space-place-where-science-is-fun.html

from craig nansen

More than 1600 federal teaching and learning resources organized by subject: art, history, language arts, math, science, and others -- from FREE, the website that makes federal teaching and learning resources easy to find.

Did you know the Library provides podcasts of some of its presentations and online resources? Listen to book festival presentations, material on music and its impact on the brain and oral history interviews with African Americans who provide first-person accounts of the hardships of the slave plantations and of life during and after slavery. Download the audio recording and a transcript of the program to your iPod, other portable media player, or to your computer from the Library of Congress website. You may choose to automatically download this and subsequent episodes via a free subscription from the Library's podcast website or through Apple iTunes.

via Kevin Jarrett http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=4176