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"The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community knows they have the knowledge and information they need to make decisions instructional decisions and respond to student needs. But the Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community also knows that the answers they need lie outside of the team as well. "

Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community series - no. 6 (more to come as Rob Jacobs creates them...)

We believe in: Sharing Technology: Government entities at all levels face substantial yet similar IT challenges. We help them share their solutions. Building Open Platforms: Open architectures foster innovation and create flexibility and efficiency through interoperability. Spreading Knowledge: There is an answer to your question out there somewhere. We'll help you find other's answers and share your own.

This site contains the answers to the most often asked questions to NASA. The answers are in video clips that can be viewed or downloaded and viewed.

Work History, Education, Desired Position and Salary...There is so much information needed for a job application. In this activity, you drag and drop information from your personal notes onto the application to completely fill it out. If you can't find an answer on the "cheat sheet", just click the question and the character will help you fill out the answer. NOTE: Requires a free account to view resources.

ave you ever wondered what it would be like to sit down and talk to Albert Einstein, George Washington, or Susan B. Anthony?  Wonder no more, with Virsona, your students have the opportunity to do just that!   Virsona is an interesting tool that lets students create a virtual character of themselves (or a virtual literary character).  Students answer a variety of questions about themselves (or another character).  They can create automatically generated responses, greetings, and choose a personality for their virtual selves.  After they have created their virtual persona, they can share the link to their virtual self.  Anyone can ask their virtual self questions (via chat) and responses are automatically generated based on the answers that were given.  Virsona has some excellent built in historical, political, and literary characters that students can interact with..  Students can chat with a virtual George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Pocahontas, Babe Ruth, Susan B. Anthony, and more.  Students choose the persona to chat with, asking them questions about their stance on politics, entertainment, beliefs, and more.  It is very cool!  Try chatting with Abraham Lincoln here.

" The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming.""

Get great book recommendations from people you know. Keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read. Form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes.

"This site is designed to promote the networking and integration of Mobile Learning into classrooms around the world. On this site you will find several resources that will help you to find answers to your questions:"

It's funny...with a chromebook and using chrome sync, this app loses some functionality. I can access all my stuff by living on the web with Google products and syncing my web browsing... boy do they know a lot about me.

Masiela Lusha (born October 23, 1985) is an Albanian American writer and actress. Is known about the role of Carmen Lopez on the sitcom, George Lopez. My life is very busy these days, promoting and filming, but I'm always here for you. Ask Masiela to my official website is the place for us to communicate. After questions and comments and you will be happy to answer back.

These folks promote a "computer-free" computer science curriculum. Agree or disagree, this is probably useful to keep for times whenever the network gives up the ghost. "Each Unplugged activity is available to download in PDF format, with full instructions and worksheets. Background sections explain the significance of each activity to computer science, and answers are provided for all problems. All you need for most of these activities are curiousity and enthusiasm. There are photos and videos showing some of the activities in action, and we've collected links to other useful resources. The activities are primarily aimed at the five to twelve year-old age group, but they are by no means restricted to this age range: we've used them to teach older children and adults too, with little modification."

A how-to for "muting" a conversation using Gmail.

A MUST for anyone on a listserv where certain conversations just won't die - ahem, CFF Coach Listserv, ahem.

"What happens when 80 10th grade students watch, analyze, and reflect upon 640+ TED Talks in pursuit of the answer to the question, "What Matters (To Us)"?"

MeeGenius is an online library of picture books that kids can read independently or as a read along. Books can be personalized with students names, just answer a few quick questions and the book is rewritten for you. Each book comes with audio playback and word highlighting, perfect for beginning or struggling readers to read along.

"This whitepaper takes a comprehensive look at the research, policies, and practices of technology literacy in K-12 settings in the United States. It builds a research-based case for the central importance of "doing" as part of technology literacy, meaning more than just being able to answer canned questions on a test. It also explores the current approaches to develop meaningful assessment of student technology literacy at a national, state, and local level."

Sync google with your ipod/iphone

Claims to have: Quick Answers to Real Classroom Technology Questions

Step-by-Step Math Problem Solver that now only solves equations, but tells you how it did so.

A Web calculator that not only solves math problems for you, but also shows you how it got to the answer with step-by-step directions. Includes algebra, trig, and calculus.