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Homeschool Math - 1 views

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    A free comprehensive math resource site. Find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials & quizzes, curriculum guide, and math teaching help articles/lessons. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules.
Stacy King

PBS KIDS: Educational Games, Videos and Activities For Kids! - 0 views

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    A site where students can play educational games, listen to storybooks, color, and watch videos.
Clif Mims

JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template - 0 views

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    Create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world.
Cara Whitehead

Figurative Language | Articles - 8 views

  • Reinforce your students' understanding of figurative language with VocabularySpellingCity's figurative language lessons, interactive games, printable worksheets, and powerpoint presentations.
Matt Clausen

Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen - 0 views

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    hilarious and addictive game using basic geometric shapes and physics principles
Dean Mantz

PowerPoint Games - 1 views

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    Powerpoint templates for use in the classroom.
Dean Mantz

Videos, Games Help Preschool Literacy, Study Says - 12/1/2009 - School Library Journal - 3 views

  • Do videos and interactive games help kids better prepare for kindergarten? According to a new study, low-income children in preschool classrooms improved their literacy skills when their teachers incorporated videos and online technology into the curriculum.
Clif Mims

Amusement Park Physics - 10 views

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    Discover how physics laws affect ride design whle designing your own roller coaster.
Jennifer Lamkins

Poptropica - 9 views

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    Created by Jeff Kinney of "Wimpy Kid" fame, this virtual world invites young gamers to create a character and to undertake age-appropriate quests on over a dozen "islands" based on themes from history, nature, and human culture.
Dean Mantz

ColaboPad.com: Shared whiteboard software - 11 views

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    Interactive widgets, plot mathematical functions, educational games, share notes, draw diagrams, and collaborate with other users.
Dean Mantz

Reading Horizons at Home - Lemons for Literacy - 8 views

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    Interactive website where every correct answer helps someone learn to read. Correct answers will have money donated towards literacy materials for a person in need.
Clif Mims

Addition & Subtraction Facts PowerPoints - 0 views

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    Electronic flashcards to help practice math facts
Clif Mims

ExploreLearning - Interactive Math and Science Simulations. - 1 views

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    Online simulations that power inquiry and understanding.
Ben Rimes

The Future of Less: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education - 0 views

  • Today, we've gone from scarcity of knowledge to unimaginable abundance. It's only natural that these new, rapidly evolving information technologies would convene new communities of scholars, both inside and outside existing institutions
  • "We said, 'Let's create a university that actually measures learning,' " Mendenhall says. "We do not have credit hours, we do not have grades. We simply have a series of assessments that measure competencies, and on that basis, award the degree."
  • Hulu.com, launched just 18 months ago, is widely considered to be the first Web site to prove that mass broadcast-television viewing as we know it can and will shift online. Hulu did that by being attractive, well-designed, and easy to use, and by having a viable business model with actual paying advertisers -- and soon, subscribers.
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  • He has also offered five of his courses to anyone on the Web for free; he donates his own time to review nonenrolled students' work, awarding a signed certificate in lieu of course credit. Wiley's most recent open course was formatted as an online role-playing game, with students divided into "guilds" completing "quests" -- a learning community inspired by the world of online gamers. "If you didn't need human interaction and someone to answer your questions, then the library would never have evolved into the university," Wiley says. "We all realize that content is just the first step."
  • If you want to perform a proper string quartet, they noted, you can't cut out the cellist nor can you squeeze in more performances by playing the music faster. But that was then -- before MP3s and iPods proved just how freely music could flow. Before Google scanned and digitized 7 million books and Wikipedia users created the world's largest encyclopedia. Before YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video and audio lectures by the best professors in the country available for free, and before college students built Facebook into the world's largest social network, changing the way we all share information. Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before.
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