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wikiHow:Carbon Neutral - wikiHow - 0 views

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shared by Heather Sullivan on 19 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Learn more about carbon offsets and how they work at the wikiHow page on How to Buy a Carbon Offset or the Wikipedia page.
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Dr. Alice Christie's GPS and Geocaching Guide for Educators - 0 views

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shared by Heather Sullivan on 05 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Technology is an integral and growing part of daily living in the twenty-first century. The challenge, then, for teachers, is to use technology effectively in classrooms to help students take ownership for learning and develop the practical and critical thinking skills necessary to better understand the world around them.
  • To meet this challenge, teachers can use an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.
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NECC Highlights - ISTE unveils new tech standards for teachers - 0 views

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shared by Heather Sullivan on 01 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Revised framework focuses on what teachers should know to help students become productive digital learners, citizens
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About US - NACOL - 0 views

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shared by Heather Sullivan on 30 Jun 08 - Cached
  • About NACOL Mission The mission of the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) is to increase educational opportunities and enhance learning by providing collegial expertise and leadership in K-12 online teaching and learning.
  • Vision Online teaching and learning has the potential to transform education. The North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL) is dedicated to fostering a learning landscape that promotes student success and lifelong learning.
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Share More! Wiki » Anthology/Slide Thinkfinity into the Curriculum with Diigo... - 0 views

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shared by Heather Sullivan on 27 Jun 08 - Cached
  • How can you track all Thinkfinity resources?
  • Using Diigo.com—read a description of this here—you are able to easily create lists of bookmarked resources and activities you want your students to use, or that you want to share with other educators.
  • Bookmark, highlight key portions of the Thinkfinity resource pages, add comments to them sites and then share them via the Web. Instead of having to click your way—or having your students click—through multiple web pages, you can save instructional time by going directly using the Slides feature of Diigo.
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  • How can you use the List and Slide features of Diigo to present Thinkfinity resources to others?
  • “List” is a great way to organize, share and display specific collections of bookmarks. Once you add bookmarks to your list, you can easily drag and drop items to arrange the order in any sequence that you’d like to present.
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'Two Million Minutes' suggests it's time to improve U.S. education - Los Angeles Times - 1 views

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shared by Heather Sullivan on 16 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Two Million Minutes," a one-hour documentary comparing the educational experiences of six students: two Americans, two Indians and two Chinese.
  • one faculty member, Compton recalled, told him that "we have nothing to learn from Third World education."
  • The movie, in (very) limited release, begins with the premise that the high school years span roughly 2 million minutes.
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  • Another, renowned education theorist Howard Gardner, took him to task for comparing the U.S. with China.
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The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Home - 0 views

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    The leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education.
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Classroom 2.0 - 0 views

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shared by Heather Sullivan on 27 May 08 - Cached
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Small L.A. Unified campus showing large gains - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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shared by Heather Sullivan on 20 May 08 - Cached
  • Like many large districts throughout the nation, Los Angeles Unified has been trying to increase the number of smaller learning communities, hoping that personalized instruction would boost student achievement and offer an alternative to charter schools, including the five Green Dot campuses close to Jefferson.
  • the 266 academy students rarely have traditional homework. Instead, they are assigned group projects, often requiring a multimedia approach.
  • Guzman said the work was more interesting than listening to a lecture and doing his homework solo. "It really seems more like a job than school," he said.
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