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What we take for granted, the women in Kakenya Ntaiya's village are denied of. A member of the Maasai community, Kakenya and her fellow women were looked down by men in their society. In a way, cultural customs discouraged a woman's success. Before they even get to high school, they are married off and get relegated to a life of service to their husband and children. But Kakenya fought her way to college, eventually becoming the first Maasai woman to achieve such feat. And because women do not forget, she founded The Kakenya Center for Excellence to give back. To read more about Kakenya Ntaiya visit www.thextraordinary.org.

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The human mind. The last frontier of man's journey to discover himself and the one thing that sets humans apart and makes them unique from all creatures on Earth. The mind is often referred to as a person's soul, containing the various aspects of thought, emotion and decision. And so, understanding the mind is a great necessity to help us address a lot of the problems that society is facing today, by working on ways that will help enhance the human mind, which will then result on the improvement of a person's life and thus enable him/her to become a more productive member of the community. To read more about Tan Le visit www.thextraordinary.org

Named as the 'Next Billy Graham,' T.D. Jakes certainly lives up to his reputation: he is one of today's most influential preachers in the world, with his television show being aired daily in more than one hundred countries worldwide, reaching millions of people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. His church, "The Potter's House," a congregation of more than thirty thousand members, is among the ten largest protestant churches in the United States.

Your ELGG (an open source community platform) users might not be overly concerned about their friend count, but they very often might need to make a connection with your organisation right off the bat if they have questions about how to use the site or need to understand what having a friend or contact entails so they have the confidence to start engaging with other users. If you currently use or are considering implementing ELGG, you may want to think about starting your members off with at least one default friend.

For me, Google Docs has been a stand-out winner for collaborative efforts. In some instances, it  is for projects where team members are spread far and wide - from Adelaide to Malaysia and back again. For other times, it's the desk next door, but it's happening in the final hours of a deadline. Either way, Google Docs somehow makes this work.

"The listing here is in alphabetical order. it may be easier to search by genre. ( 16 pages here of different genres.) If you do not see one that covers your interests, let me know and I may be able to put one together. I have also put together a listing of sites that offer free and legal audio books at Free Audio Books Online These listings may be searched in the following methods: Alphabetical Listing - A listing of the site names in alphabetical order Listing by Genre - Links to pages here for different book genres (16) Online Local Libraries -These sites have links to local libraries which have much content for members"

Anna Mirtschin (@murcha) is a distinguished IT teacher and a member of the Classroom 2.0 ning. She has created many global connections for her students and has made all her resources available. She presented these at the 2010 VITTA conference in Melbourne.

Get all the best books recommended by CR 2.0 members! See some amazing lists. Use the bookstore and support Classroom 2.0. Fully secure, teacher driven and co-operative.

Are you LinkedIn? Do your students Tweet during a field trip? If you're like many NSTA members, the answer is "yes" with a caveat: Not in school. Excellent article featuring James gates, includes brief info about Flat Classroom and use of social media tools

In an effort to stave off obsolescence, using an operational model developed when information/expertise and group-forming were expensive or impossible, many schools are attempting (often under the banner of security) to insulate their members from the out

A site started by member Andrew Farmer. Great stuff Andrew!

Our next generation of teaching and learning software has been designed by teachers for teachers, creating our very first user-generated solution - and we couldn't wait to share it with you… Activsoftware Inspire Edition delivers amazing functionality and exciting new features; making learning journeys more fun than ever before. Available exclusively to Promethean Planet members, our tailored preview specifically invites feedback, offering you the opportunity to shape the future of the de facto educational platform of tomorrow.

Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environm

Blogs are naturally "publish at will" platforms. While blogs certainly CAN be configured to have new posts "moderated" by someone serving in the role of a gatekeeper, by default most blogs allow users to publish INSTANTLY. If you're interested in setting up a blog for moderated posting by students, I'd recommend using Class Blogmeister for this purpose. Wordpress blogs can be configured for contributor posts to be moderated as well, but this requires a bit of configuration. (This is the setup we're using here on ISTEconnects, btw.) On the Wordpress dashboard, under SETTINGS - GENERAL SETTINGS, we've checked the MEMBERSHIP box ANYONE CAN REGISTER and set the "New User Default Role" to be CONTRIBUTOR. With these configuration settings, new posts must be reviewed by a user designated as an "editor" or "administrator" before they become "live" on the site. For more on this, see the Wordpress.org CODEX article "Roles and Capabilities." To setup a free classroom or personal Wordpress blog you don't have to host yourself, I recommend using EduBlogs or Wordpress.com. Blogs setup with Blogger can similarly be setup as "team" blogs with moderated contributions from members which can include students and/or teachers. See the Blogger help article "How do I create a team blog?" for more details. My post from July 2008, "How can our school set up a team blog for teachers?" also gives more information about this for Wordpress users.

Recent issues in this journal and other prominent distance-learning journals have established the need for administrators to be informed and prepared with strategic plans equal to foreseeable challenges. This article provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are organized into categories as they pertain to students and enrollment, faculty members, academics, technology, the economy, and distance learning. All the trends were identified during an extensive review of current literature in the field

More than a half million Education Support Professional (ESP) members take care of our children every day and make sure they have the tools they need to succeed in our schools and classrooms.

The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.