As Levin watched the progress of those KIPP alumni, he noticed something curious: the students who persisted in college were not necessarily the ones who had excelled academically at KIPP; they were the ones with exceptional character strengths, like optimism and persistence and social intelligence.
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Welcome to PrimaryAccess - 100 views
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PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools. -
storyboarding with primary sources
Creaza - 139 views
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Creaza is a superb suite of tools including a audio and movie maker/editor, a cartoon maker, mindmapping and many others. A must have resource. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/page/edit/ICT+&+Web+Tools -
suite of digital storytelling tools (cartoon creator, audio editor, video editor, mindmapper, etc).
What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 97 views
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They were the ones who were able to recover from a bad grade and resolve to do better next time; to bounce back from a fight with their parents; to resist the urge to go out to the movies and stay home and study instead; to persuade professors to give them extra help after class.
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I shared this article with several of my colleagues. I find it really interesting that someone in charge of such an elite private school that falls under such parent scrutiny has embraced this philosophy.
WeVideo - Collaborative Online Video Editor in the Cloud - 114 views
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This is a superb collaborative video editing suite. You and your class can invite each other as collaborators. It has a great range of tools and toys to make some great movies. Host your video on the site or export to YouTube or Vimeo. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
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Offers a lite or VERY reasonably priced education account.
a-better-world - home - 49 views
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Our 6th grade collaborative project with a focus on global issues. We are looking for schools to join us with the hopes of working on some collaborative lyrics in Google Docs, remixing audio tracks shared between schools and possibly a skype session. We are running the project 5 times this year for 6 weeks at a time. Email me if you are interested i taking part at one point. jennifergarcia@abc-net.edu.sv
The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements - 177 views
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This site contains comic book images linked to the chemical elements via the periodic table. Comics include Uncle $crooge, Metal Men, Metamorpho, Batman, Fantastic Four, Superman, and many more."> The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements BODY { color: rgb(0,0,0);} Th
JellyCam - Stop Motion - 8 views
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Very simple to use stop motion program and, more importantly, free. Could see it being very easy for my Primary students to make simple movies with. -
A great downloadable stop-motion animation program. Really simple to use and your students will love it. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams
Learning to Dance in the Rain Movie | Simple Truths - 79 views
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Video Attitude is everything, make the most of all things
Films We Like | KurzweilAI - 0 views
Xtranormal Movie Maker for Education - 80 views
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Xtranormal animator for education. Make superb animations easily using the sites characters, props and sounds. You will be amazed at what your class will do. Download the app or editor online. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video,+animation,+film+&+Webcams
FILMCLUB - 72 views
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The home page of Film Club, an organisation which helps schools setup after school film clubs. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
Pearl Diver - 94 views
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A maths game which teaches about positive and negative number lines. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Zimmer Twins - 101 views
A guide to online educational resources. - NYTimes.com - 90 views
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Richard Ludlow started the nonprofit Academic Earth two years ago after M.I.T.'s OpenCourseWare helped him pass linear algebra as a Yale undergraduate. His site offers the courses of 10 elite universities — 130 full courses and more than 3,500 video lectures. Viewers can turn the tables on professors and grade courses. Other guidance includes "Editor's Picks" and "Playlists," lectures selected around a theme like "First Day of Freshman Year" and "You Are What You Eat."
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Connexions, started at Rice University 10 years ago, debundles education for the D.I.Y. learner. Anyone can write a "module," the term for instructional material that can be a single sentence or 1,000 pages. Connexions hosts more than 16,000 modules that make up almost 1,000 "collections." A collection might be, say, an algebra textbook or statistics course.
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Daniel Colman is a curator of sorts. He sifts through the vast amount of free courses, movies and books offered online to find what he considers the very best in content and production value. Then he features them on Open Culture, the Web site he founded in 2006. It's a task in keeping with his mission as associate dean and director of Stanford's continuing education program.
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Thousands of pieces of free educational material - videos and podcasts of lectures, syllabuses, entire textbooks - have been posted in the name of the open courseware movement. But how to make sense of it all? Businesses, social entrepreneurs and "edupunks," envisioning a tuition-free world untethered by classrooms, have created Web sites to help navigate the mind-boggling volume of content. Some sites tweak traditional pedagogy; others aggregate, Hulu-style. -
Amazing online resources for education
Dfilm - is now Dvolver. Make your own movie with the MovieMaker - 39 views
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In an ESL class this might a fun respite from traditional activities - but it could also be a distractor - what do you think?
Fun and creative ways for students to make online video projects - 123 views
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It is interesting to work with students to make a film in our classroom. Eduhowto Over begun to transform the class into a project-based classroom. This constructivist approach incorporates technology into the classroom.
Netflix - Watch TV Shows Online, Watch Movies Online - 21 views
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personal and non-commercial use only
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not to use the service for public performances
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