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A place where teachers can share lesson plans integrating social tech into teaching and learning.

Much attention has been paid to how mobile-learning devices can be incorporated into middle and high schools, but Seth Weinberger is targeting a different set of students: kindergartners through 2nd graders. "The sweet spot of literacy is kindergarten to 2nd grade," says Weinberger, the executive director of Innovations for Learning, the Evanston, Ill.-based nonprofit organization that developed a mobile-learning device called the TeacherMate. "If you get them [reading on grade level] early, there's a real chance that you can keep them at grade level."

list of apps that can help you while you are training or teaching, making you seem super-smart, tech-savvy, and creative. I mention specific apps for the Droid and iPhone, but similar applications exist for most smart phones.

courses about AI and other ingeneer tech

This is part IV in a series dedicated to free, online writing tools for kids. 

Wikipedia defines a timeline as a kind of graphic design showing a long bar labeled with dates alongside itself and (usually) events labeled on points where they would have happened. Here are some tools educators can use to create timelines.

Sony's e-book reader will now have easy access to specially-formatted copies of public domain books scanned by Google. Can free (in both senses) content help Sony in its battle against Amazon's Kindle juggernaut?

find in there some good stuff for geo-net-projects...

Jumping with glee! Ms. Jurczak recommends Teacher Toolbar. Check it out for yourself: http://tinyurl.com/326m6o

"We are, undoubtedly, in the midst of a genetic revolution. It could well mean made-to-order babies or the creation of spare organs for transplant. Soon the question of bio-technology will change from "can we?" to "should we?" "

Described as a resource for "adult educators in Colorado who wish to integrate technology into instruction". CCCOnline's very own Leecy Wise is editor for this newsletter. I find it a great refresher of skills and inspiration to try new things.