Using Forms in Google Docs - 0 views
Art Project, powered by Google - 0 views
SMARTBoard « - 0 views
Top 20 Passwords of All Time - Protect Yourself From Hackers - 2 views
Simulations Helping New Teachers Hone Skills - 0 views
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The student-teacher faces a rowdy class. “We’re not going to have that kind of behavior in here,” she says. “It’s too loud in here to move on.” The students don’t pay much attention. A boy in the back row, wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, slumps his shoulders. Another student waves his hand aimlessly. “Nah, just stretching,” he replies, when the teacher asks if he needs something. Scenes such as that aren’t uncommon in urban classrooms, but in this case there is one critical difference: These students are avatars—computer-generated characters whose movements and speech are controlled by a professional actor. Each of the five characters—all with distinct abilities, personalities, and psychological profiles, and even names like “Maria” and “Marcus”—were created as part of the TeachME initiative at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando. There, teacher-candidates can practice in a virtual classroom before ever entering a real one. Real-time classroom simulations like TeachME, supporters say, offer promise for a host of teacher-training applications. Through them, candidates could learn to work with different groups of students, or practice a discrete skill such as classroom management. Most of all, such simulations give teachers in training the ability to experiment—and make mistakes—without the worry of doing harm to an actual child’s learning. “It allows the teacher to fail in a safe environment,” said Lisa Dieker, a professor of education at the University of Central Florida and one of the designers of TeachME. “Real kids, trust me, will remember in May what you said to them in August. You can’t reset children.”
Big Screen Books™ - 0 views
DuSable Museum hosts social media meeting - chicagotribune.com - 0 views
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About 150 Chicago-area students attended a summit designed to teach them how to use social media to educate and mobilize others about social causes. The workshop, hosted by the National Council of La Raza, challenged students to use social-networking tools the way civil-rights leaders once used traditional media to promote their cause.
Apps in the classroom - The Boston Globe - 0 views
Best Educational Wikis of 2010 - 0 views
On Our Minds @ Scholastic: Video: David Rose on technology and individualized learning - 0 views
IP21: NETS - 0 views
Teaching With a Tablet: One Educator's Experience | MindShift - 0 views
Google Global Science Fair 2011 - 0 views
Summer Prof Dev- Google's Computer Science for High School - 0 views
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CS4HS (Computer Science for High School) is an initiative sponsored by Google to promote Computer Science in high school curriculum. With a grant from Google's Education Group, universities develop projects including workshops for local high school CS teachers that incorporate informational talks by industry leaders, and discussions on new and emerging CS curricula at the high school level. On this site, you'll find information on how to hold a CS4HS program and workshop at your university, information for workshop attendees and partners, and other helpful resources. We currently offer CS4HS grants in the US, Canada, and Europe, Middle East and Africa. February 18 - Online Application closes visit http://cs4hs.media.mit.edu/
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