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Two brilliant high school chemistry teachers have completely switched the lecture at school/homework at home paradigm. Their students watch the lecture at home as a vodcast (on computer, iPod, or DVD) and do problem sets at school with help from the teachers. Check out the news story from the local TV station. I used to live near Woodland Park...

Mark was at the Harvard Institute and has just joined our Ning group and posted about his site.

This is an impressive collection of presentations on UDL and AT-related topics archived online. From Mark at the Virginia AT Program. Check it out!!

SET-BC is a Provincial Resource Program designed to assist school districts in British Columbia in meeting the assistive technology needs of students with physical disabilities and visual impairments. There are lots of free downloadable tutorials and curriculum materials associated with AT programs such as Kurzweil, Clicker5, Boardmaker, and others at this site.

This wiki documents work I'm doing with students/teachers in Prince Rupert at the Middle School Level. They requested tutorials more suitable for students so we met to decide the "basics" that would be covered. The teachers wanted simple 1-page handouts that they could use to introduce just one skill at a time in small amounts of classroom time or to mix and match for longer sessions.

Awesome TED Talk about a different way to teach math. Are we making things too simple? TED Talks Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

One very quick way to look up words on Google is simply to type define:anyword in the Google search field. However, their actual dictionary is far and away my favourite of all the dictionaries I've reviewed, mainly because of its clean, ad-free format. When you click on a sound icon to hear a word pronounced, it doesn't open in another annoying window. The definitions are not too complicated for use by school kids and there are examples used in context and links to other definitions found on the web. At any time, at the top of the page, you can also access web-links, images, videos, etc. that are part of a regular Google search. The site also works with NaturalReader.

Many video tutorials at this site for specialty aspects of Kurzweil and other programs including Dragon Naturally Speaking, Inspiration, Moodle, Powerpoint.

This became my 500th bookmark on Diigo thanks to Jim Batchel. If you are trying to figure out whether blogs/wikis/ning is better for your students, it looks like you can have it all and more at ThinkQuest! You need an account to sign in but under the Projects tab you can look at some public video tours of its features. ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

The teachers at Mountain City have created some great book and novel studies with online questions, printable questions that are easy to convert to Kurzweil format, and suggested activites for each chapter. Many also have links to other websites. Recommended by Maureen LaFleche at the Jan 8 2009 Breeze meeting.

You can learn a lot about angles by looking at letters. Let's look at the following letters to see what we can learn from them.

I love this! Lots of flash demos and extra practice with feedback for all types of angles.

Awesome collection of downloadable videos showing kids using technology at school and home. These videos are licensed under CC and can be embedded or downloaded. Click on the videos link at the top...there are about 20 pages of videos there already.

There are a handful of questions I can count on being asked at least once at every school in which I do instructional technology coaching. I'm sure many of you have the same issues, so I thought I'd share. Good solid advice for 1)showing YouTube videos, 2)mirroring iPads to SMARTBoards and 3)the best answer to the "must-have" apps question.

This page has apps organized by category, e.g. Reading, Writing, Science, etc. and also has link to Special Education apps section at the bottom.

Basically turns anything that you can alligator clip to into a computer interface. Created by two grade students at MIT who started a website looking for $25,000 investment and now have $386,000 after just 11 days. For $35 definitely getting one of these!

French 4 consists of 4 Modules divided into 16 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules One, Two, and Three in this order, since the concepts build on each other. However Module Four can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, Halloween can be done during the last two weeks of October. Note that in Module Four students can choose to do two of the five Sections. Therefore, in order to complete this course, students are expected to do 13 of the 16 Sections. Module One: My Classroom Module Two: Who Am I? Module Three: My Immediate Family Module Four: Holidays and Celebrations

French 4 consists of 4 Modules divided into 16 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules One, Two, and Three in this order, since the concepts build on each other. However Module Four can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, Halloween can be done during the last two weeks of October. Note that in Module Four students can choose to do two of the five Sections. Therefore, in order to complete this course, students are expected to do 13 of the 16 Sections. Module One: My Classroom Module Two: Who Am I? Module Three: My Immediate Family Module Four: Holidays and Celebrations

French 7 consists of 4 Modules divided into 11 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules 1, 2, and 3 in this order since concepts build on each other. However Module 4 can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, La cabane à sucre can be completed in March or April. Most school years consist of 200 days. Notice that there are only 110 days of work. The remaining 90 days are to be used to play games and practice what is being taught. Module One: School Module Two: People Around Me Module Three: Weather Module Four: Holidays and Celebration

French 7 consists of 4 Modules divided into 11 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules 1, 2, and 3 in this order since concepts build on each other. However Module 4 can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, La cabane à sucre can be completed in March or April. Most school years consist of 200 days. Notice that there are only 110 days of work. The remaining 90 days are to be used to play games and practice what is being taught. Module One: School Module Two: People Around Me Module Three: Weather Module Four: Holidays and Celebration

French 5 consists of 5 Modules divided into 13 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules 1, 2, 3, and 4 in this order since concepts build on each other. However Module 5 can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, Christmas can be completed in December. Module One: My Elementary School Module Two: Clothing Module Three: My Home Module Four: Animals Module Five: Holidays and Celebrations

French 5 consists of 5 Modules divided into 13 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules 1, 2, 3, and 4 in this order since concepts build on each other. However Module 5 can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, Christmas can be completed in December. Module One: My Elementary School Module Two: Clothing Module Three: My Home Module Four: Animals Module Five: Holidays and Celebrations

French 6 consists of 5 Modules divided into 13 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules 1, 2, 3, and 4 in this order since concepts build on each other. However Module 5 can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, Remembrance Day can be completed in November. Most school years consist of 200 days. Notice that there are only 130 days of work. The remaining 70 days are to be used to play games and practice what is being taught. Module One: My Health and Well-Being Module Two: My Neighbourhood Module Three: Alberta - My Province Module Four: The Environment Module Five: Holidays and Celebrations

French 6 consists of 5 Modules divided into 13 sections. Each section has 10 daily lessons, approximately 30 minutes each in length. It is important to work through Modules 1, 2, 3, and 4 in this order since concepts build on each other. However Module 5 can be inserted at appropriate times of the year. For example, Remembrance Day can be completed in November. Most school years consist of 200 days. Notice that there are only 130 days of work. The remaining 70 days are to be used to play games and practice what is being taught. Module One: My Health and Well-Being Module Two: My Neighbourhood Module Three: Alberta - My Province Module Four: The Environment Module Five: Holidays and Celebrations