EdL620LLC (This is not for EdL325IT)

Observations show a positive association between academic performance and physical activity

Data suggest that heavier children have greater risk for school absenteeism than their normal-weight peers

Available data suggest that the rate of academic learning per unit of class time is enhanced in physically active students

I have found many helpful resources on the web and decided that I should share some of my work with other teachers. Please feel free to use these materials with your students. If you find any errors, please email me.

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The Cloud Computing Movement Will Continue. Investing in purchase-and-install software is falling by the wayside as institutions catch onto the value of using "cloud" applications that are housed (and accessed) online. Not only are these options more affordable and easier to implement, but they also include vast storage capacity that can be used for, say, portfolio assessments. "Using cloud computing, schools can create large collections of loosely-sorted data (such as school records, written documents and even video recordings)," said Bob Spielvogel, CTO at EDC, a Newton, MA-based nonprofit that creates programs to address educational challenges, "and then utilize that information to track project activity and conduct portfolio assessments across the student's entire college career." With these and other uses gaining ground in the higher education space, expect cloud computing's popularity to grow in 2011.

As a parent, you have to love learning yourself. You have to read to your children. You have to let them see you reading. Just stay on them. Stay positive. You have to encourage them. --Fatimah Memfis

letterTrace iPad Education Application     Price: FREE     Creator: John Coddington LetterTrace is a program to help children learn to write who have coordination problems. You can change size of the trace such that just a touch will cause the letter to be drawn, or you need to actually trace the letter to complete it. It’s automatically detected when a character is complete, at which time the character name is heard, and the next character is drawn.