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xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines - 9 views

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    Xtimeline accounts allow collaboration and have privacy setting that can enable or disable collaboration or comments
Mrs. Warner

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  • move stealthily through virtual environments and carry out intricate missions
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      A cool process, but not in line with any ISTE or content standard I can think of. The same thing is done by students who stealthily text message information to their friends while supposedly completing a test in class.
  • craft a persona, build a history, and shape a virtual world
  • micromanage
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  • simultaneously balancing short- and long-term goals
Chelsie Jolley

PBS Teachers | Resources For The Classroom - 0 views

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    PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online.
Eric G. Young

frontline: secret history of the credit card | PBS - 39 views

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    Frontline airing that discusses the rise of credit cards, the complexity of their terms in modern society, and includes a teaching feature which I think would be excellent for high school teachers to utilize.
Anne McCormack

Faces of America | PBS Video - 42 views

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    Insightful series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, shows how our heritage can unite us or divide us.
Anne McCormack

For Educators | Faces of America | PBS - 20 views

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    Lesson plans that go with the PBS series "Faces of America" hosted by Henry Louis Gates.
Steve C

Not in Our Town - 20 views

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    Antidiscrimination action website
C Clausen

Mr. Hartwig's U.S. History Blog: Stock Market Simulation WebQuest - 39 views

Kathy Malatesta

National Constitution Center: Interactive Constitution - 69 views

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    Thanks! Passed it on to our US History folks and they loved it!
Robert Alford

The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley - 82 views

  • embodies the most stunning finding to come out of education research in the past decade: more than any other variable in education—more than schools or curriculum—teachers matter.
  • Parents have always worried about where to send their children to school; but the school, statistically speaking, does not matter as much as which adult stands in front of their children. Teacher quality tends to vary more within schools—even supposedly good schools—than among schools
  • The results are specific and surprising. Things that you might think would help a new teacher achieve success in a poor school—like prior experience working in a low-income neighborhood—don’t seem to matter. Other things that may sound trifling—like a teacher’s extracurricular accomplishments in college—tend to predict greatness.
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  • Great teachers, he concluded, constantly reevaluate what they are doing.
  • What did predict success, interestingly, was a history of perseverance—not just an attitude, but a track record
  • Meanwhile, a master’s degree in education seems to have no impact on classroom effectiveness.
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    What matters most GRIT!
Jim Birchfield

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - EduVision - 48 views

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    I distinctly remember a professor at Trinity College saying, as we studied Faulkner, "determining authors' intent is impossible. In fact, even if you asked them personally, they might lie! Critical thinking means shaping personal meaning using the text. So, that means one might explore the construction of the text as a result of that particular reader at that particular time in history. So much to say about this...
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