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Educators are turning to Skype to conduct long-distance lessons and even drum up new business, Emily Glazer reports on Lunch Break.

Here are some pre-made lesson plans you can use with Google Docs and a few other services we already have here in District 30.

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We could all learn a lesson from this. 

Great example of a website that looks authentic, but is not. Useful for evaluating websites lessons.

I have started to think about how to help students understand the importance of critically evaluating the information on-line. I have found a few sites over the years and after the year 8 immersion days I believe that it is time to come up with some lessons that teachers can use. There have been some very good posts about this topic already. Langwitches post "Don't Believe Everything You See Online" being one.

299,536 people have decided to learn to code in 2012. Why not you? Make your New Year's resolution learning to code. Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you'll be building apps and web sites before you know it.

Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West's reigning education superpower, Finland. Trouble is, when it comes to the lessons that Finnish schools have to offer, most of the discussion seems to be missing the point.

"During this first week of school, I wanted to inspire my students to be creative and have fun with their learning. In years past I have always struggled to make my writing lessons fun and engaging, yet productive. This is year I decided to introduce writing with the help of my favorite tech tool: Augmented Reality! "

The SMART Board is an interactive, electronic whiteboard which can enhance instruction and learning.  The SMART Notebook software makes it possible for teachers to create content rich, dynamic lessons which address specific student skills.

Fairview School is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We are a full inclusion school of 630 students from K4 through 8th Grade. The students here at Fairview receive Physical Education once a week for 45 minutes. They receive 35 Physical Education lessons a year. Please check out what your child's learning in his/her Physical Education class. If you have any questions or concerns about your child don't hesitate to call or email. Phone #:546-7700 Email: beringmx@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us

Why Use YouTube in your classroom?Increase student engagementStart your class off with an engaging video clip that brings a lesson to life and sparks a lively discussion.No longer will students be late for physics class when you begin the class with an engaging clip

I recently blogged that you can now play Angry Birds in your web browser. This opens up all sorts of video analysis possibilities for physics lessons and assessment. Students can easily make their own videos or you can pre-record your own. Videos can be recorded using Jing, Screencast-O-Matic, or Camtasia Studio. Analysis can be done in Logger Pro or Tracker.

Place Out Of Time is a simulation of a trial, where students play guests who come from a range of places and times throughout history to discuss some of the great issues of humankind. Our trial takes place (virtually) at the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. Place Out of Time is a writing intensive project for middle and high school students, meant to draw upon their sense of play and the hook of having an audience for their ideas to engage them in putting a twist on the study of history. Student participants and university mentors debate issues and perspectives in character, and move from reading and studying about their characters to a series of opportunities for original research--both historical and creative--as they decide what their character would say about issues that took place in places far distant (in time and geography) from their lives.

Great website to share with parents that has examples of open ended math problems.

The flipped classroom, as it is currently being described and publicized, is simply recording the didactic content information via video, having students view these as homework, and then using class time to further discuss these ideas. Harvard Professor Chris Dede stated in his Global Education 2011 keynote in response to a question directed about the flipped classroom . . .

American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins

Games for all subject areas in the elementary grades

ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.