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Learn how to transform your class through the use of student produced video to increase motivation and learning. By producing videos students practice writing, speaking, and creativity skills at the upper end of Bloom's Taxonomy.

For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other shoe to drop. In April 2011, Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, received some startling news. Her score on the Teacher Data Report, the New York City Department of Education's effort to isolate a teacher's contribution to her students' performance on New York State's math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests in grades four through eight, said that 32 percent of seventh-grade math teachers and 0 percent of eighth-grade math teachers scored below her. She was, according to this report, the worst eighth-grade math teacher in New York City, where she has taught since 2007.

A brilliant site that has a huge amount of resources. This links directly to the resource kits section.

Use this site to create simple webpages in a graphical format. Might be interesting to embed on a blog etc.