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The eMINTS National Center is a non-profit, independent business unit of the University of Missouri. eMINTS offers professional development programs created by educators for educators. Leading experts have collaborated to produce programs that * inspire educators to use instructional strategies powered by technology * engage students in the excitement of learning * enrich teaching to dramatically improve student performance eMINTS changes how teachers teach and students learn. Its instructional model provides a research-based approach to organizing instruction and can be implemented in any subject area at any level.

"Reverse Instruction"  Flipping learning for Schools of the Future.  New trend is to recorde lesson (lecture) for viewing outside of school.  Use school time for lesson activity, projects, etc.

Differentiated Instruction resources.

Instructional Strategies that work via Robert Marzano

educational technology,instructional technology,encyclopedia,performance technology,technology,information technology,instructional design

Thought provoking post about screencasting.   However, how about using screencasts as method of assessing student learning?

I like the focus on instructional routines that promote problem solving/creative thinking as the focus not the technology. It's a belief that I continue to espouse, but as usual David says it more eloquently (and succinctly) than I do.

Great collection of Differentiated Instruction resources.

Resources for understanding and performing qualitative data analysis. Very useful as schools are forced to look more and more at data, and need a way for teachers to effectively use that data to impact instruction.

QDA has become a growing factor in our school system. The data teachers collect and analyze spans from written tests, student response data, individual curricular modules, grade book analytics, state tests, national tests and more. Many teachers are overwhelmed with assessment and data. This site is a wonderful resource to keep in our pockets so that assessment methods and data collected have a quality aspect and can be used as a solid directional arrow for instruction. Much appreciated.

Instruction approach from Loyola Marymount University improves Math scores and minimizes achievement gap.

The Closing the Gap Professional Development Toolkit is designed to be used in both group-facilitated sessions and by individuals in self-directed learning. Customized instructions are provided for each type of professional development.

An online presentation created with SlideRocket to provide effective ways to use technology as a tool for vocabulary instruction.

This is a cute site that teaches students a variety of safety issues for the Internet.  You could use this site for whole class instruction or small groups.

I chose this site because it gives information about how reading will change with common core standards.  It provides suggestions that will help with common core lessons.

Cheat sheet is a reference tool that provides simple, brief instructions for accomplishing a specific task. We have collated a set of best cheat sheets for web developers. It includes some of the popular programming language, e.g. jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, PHP, MySQL and etc

This Diigo group is for this with an interest in the topic of Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0.

Instructions for converting .flv movies to other formats (.mp4, .mov) using VLC media player.

Great site in development to help teachers teach the American Civil War using technology to enhance instruction.