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National Institute of Open Schooling, open schooling institutions (NIOS) Delhi. Get its details like Admission, Courses, Cutoff, Fees, Placements, and Ranking at My First College

Build a shining future with Indira Gandhi Technological and Medical Sciences University. Get its all details like Admission, Courses, Cutoff, Fees, Placements, and Ranking My First College.

"This guide provides information and resources available to faculty to help improve the critical thinking and information literacy skills of students. This page was created specifically for the Barton School of Business, but many of the links are applicable to all disciplines."

Within the report are numerous charts, job aids, and activities that allow you to make  the most of the innovations and updates in Bloom's Taxonomy for yourself and your  work team.

What a great idea for faculty professional development or any kind of sustained, elearning that needs to occur over the summer months. Creative, motivational, feature-rich, easy to use.  Beautiful.

Just amazingly executed. I think I'm going to make this my annual professional development goal to get this sort of thing started here.

professor I know at Kansas State University surprised her class of pre-service teachers with an iPad to use for the semester. During the course, they will be considering how they may want to use it both professionally and personally. They are currently blogging about the experience and will be creating podcasts about it beginning next week.

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Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers.

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Some quick and dirty guides to tech things, including Moodle for Teachers.

In defending this exam idea, one person said that she felt it was BETTER to give these tests than one PSSA test every three years. "Wouldn't you rather take the test when you can still remember the material?" Hmmm. Think about that for a couple of minutes.

In defending this exam idea, one person said that she felt it was BETTER to give these tests than one PSSA test every three years. "Wouldn't you rather take the test when you can still remember the material?"

A thematically-organized interactive that helps you learn more about the patterns and processes that make up world history.

An EXCELLENT video about money. It's perfect timing!

THis is an excellent video to show to your economics classes. Divide it into three viewings to allow for discussion. This is easy to understand and it does a great job of explaining the notion of Money as Debt. Watch it the entire way though, of course, before you show it to your classes, but be ready for some great discussions!

What struck me immediately was the kind of work that the kids were doing. Again, I was caught in the thought, "Boy, do we ever underestimate what kids can do." Of course, this is not a school with NCLB requirements hanging over it, and that sure helps.

Watch videos of children talking about their projects.

"An education-technology scholar discusses the current state and promise of online teacher PD. Chris Dede, a professor of learning technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a leading authority on online teacher professional development."

"A series of lessons for creating and implementing a classroom economy. Students learn an introduction to economics by being actively involved in a mini economy, named MoneyInstructor-nomics. This 10-week unit is compressed into 15 lessons. Each lesson includes background, objectives for the teacher, a detailed, sep-by-step plan, a selection of student activities, questions, journal topics, examples, or templates. The lessons begin with an overview for the teacher, sample parent letter, background, objectives, and class activities."