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Templates, backgrounds, and music for PowerPoint. Teacher resources for presentations.

"As schools return to session in South Dakota, more than one-fourth of students in the state will only be in class from Monday through Thursday as budget constraints lead school districts to hack off a day from the school week. Larry Johnke, superintendant of the Irene-Wakonda school district, says the change will save his schools more than $50,000 per year. In order to make up for the missing day, schools will add 30 minutes to each of the other four days and shorten the daily lunch break."

Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around. Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html#ixzz1XxehtGtn

This site follows up the promo video - jump in and have a look.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday made the latest edition of its Office software suite available for testing and plans to make key applications such as Word and Excel available over the Web -- acknowledging burgeoning competition from Internet giant Google Inc. and others.

"In 2009 and beyond, being a learner means being connected, and that means understanding how to develop connections face to face, as well as through online networks. It is these connections form the basis of a personalized learning network that literally can make learning a 24/7 endeavor that involves co-learners and co-teachers from around the globe. Central to this ability to learn online, to participate online, is the ability to craft messages that have the potential to impact others. "

THE NSW Department of Education and Training has dished out the first contracts for the $386 million computers-in-schools program, with the spoils going to Lenovo, Microsoft and Adobe. The computers will be given to over 200,000 government secondary school students in years 9 - 12 and 25,000 teachers across NSW.

"Published on 4 Feb 2014 10 years after Mark Zuckerberg built "Thefacebook" in his Harvard dorm, Facebook has more users, more revenue, and arguably more impact than it ever has. How has the social network changed (and changed us) over the years? "

Creating beautiful maps with your personalized rich-content points of interest, is now easy as blogging. Include Sound Video Forms Links Text & Images. Use in education.

"A CYBER safety expert has slammed primary schools for letting students as young as eight use Twitter. Roxburgh Homestead Primary School is one of a number of schools to set up classroom Twitter accounts so students can share snippets of their work with the outside world. Parents have been encouraged to 'follow' the accounts for an insight into their children's school life."

"How far would you have to travel to reach the Earth's core? And what would you see along the way? Discover what lies beneath..."

Online tool to build slideshows with lots of interactive tools and embedded media. New beta.

Eiffel Tower goes dark in solidarity with victims of Manchester Arena attack. http://abcn.ws/2qTEoIT

"The missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization."

Suitable even for school students, this tool allows you to visualise your data in order to understand them better and tell their story.

Công ty nào cũng muốn quảng bá thông qua các món quà tặng gốm sứ doanh nghiệp độc đáo, giá rẻ. Thực vậy, cốc sứ in logo sẽ là một trong những sự lựa chọn phù hợp trong trường hợp này.