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"How we teach must reflect how our students learn. It must also reflect the world our students will move into. This is a world which is rapidly changing, connected, adapting and evolving. Our style and approach to teaching must emphasise the learning in the 21st century." Includes great diagram.

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how to extend teacher usage of UnitedStreaming, including a nifty web 2.0 injection, with a few cool Powerpoint hacks.

See how many cups of water you can donate by testing your knowledge about the world. Each correct answer means we will be donating 10 cups on your behalf. Good luck!

How youtube is helping students with math

How to embed YouTube videos in PowerPoint presentations

great hack!

Directions for making a portable version of Skype that you can run from any thumbdrive.

Cool alternative for presentations... in beta.

Use this site to learn how to better use Prezi

Explores how adults are using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.  Findings include: Adult internet users with a profile on a social network site have quadrupled in the last four years; Although the percentage of teens using social networks is higher, adults still make up the majority of social network users; and Younger adults are far more likely to use social networks than older adults.

Join us each week to get practical tips and information on how to use Microsoft products and technologies in the classroom. Each Webcast is a 40 - 45 minute presentation and demo with a live Q&A session at the end.

Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world.

There's the easy way or the hard way. RSS makes your life easy but for people new to RSS it's easy to overlook it's importance. And educating, those new to the concept of RSS, how to use it effectively should be a priority.

What is plagiarism? How do you avoid it?

Having trouble with plagiarism?

Speakers can be their own worst enemies. Here are our expert's tips on how to make a presentation sing

Very good for teachers who want a teachable method (acronym included!) for teaching themselves as well as students how to do better online searches. Very friendly layout and treatment. Examples geared more toward teachers.

The Genographic Project is a five-year effort to understand the human journey-where we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages. If you choose to participate and add your data to the global research database, you'll help to delineate our common genetic tree, giving detailed shape to its many twigs and branches. Teachers can order Genographic Project Participation Kits at a special educator's discount, get free lesson plans related to the Genographic Project, and (coming soon) access other resources and discuss topics in forum boards.

Find a local school project (using written descriptions), pledge some money, hear how it's going. Great!

What a great idea to get seed money!

Education World has compiled the Web's latest and greatest podcasting resources to help you get started with this exciting and doable technology. Included: How-to articles, lesson ideas, free and fee-based software download sites, and much more!

If you use openoffice or thought about it but worried about how it would function, here are some extensions to make it work the way you want it to.