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Jeremy Rice

Firehouse.com fire news - 1 views

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    The latest fire department news. From all around the world. 
Jeremy Rice

43762 Weather Forecast and Conditions - 0 views

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    this is the weather for the New Concord Area and this is helpful for that morning commute to school and walking to class.
Bethany Beckett

NDEP - National Deaf Education Project - 0 views

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      Important change in laws for deaf children
  • The law was in effect as of May 1996, and its rules for implementation were adopted in May of 1997. All IEPs being developed are required to
  • What will be the impact of the Deaf Child's Bill of Rights on my child's education? An outcome of the Deaf Child's Bill of Rights is that your child's IEP (Individual Education Plan) will be directly affected by this law in the form of a "Communication Plan". The Communication Plan is the document referred to in the rules that contains an action plan that the IEP team (especially parents) has created to address specific areas of a student's social and emotional development. All too often, IEPs do not thoroughly address, if at all, these critical areas of growth for a child who is deaf or hard of hearing. The Communication Plan creates a mechanism for having conversations and taking action where gaps are identified in these areas. And the Communication Plan will serve as a quality control monitor, making sure that a more comprehensive, qualitative view is taken of each child's experience in school.
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  • When will the law take effect and when will my child have his/her own "Communication Plan".
  • What is the Deaf Child's Bill of Rights? In May of 1996, the General Assembly approved Colorado State Law 96-1041, The Deaf Child's Bill of Rights. The Bill, sponsored by Representative Mo Keller, who is an educator of the deaf, was strongly supported by parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and members of the deaf community. With its passage, program options for deaf students in the state of Colorado have been strengthened and preserved. In light of numerous states nationwide that have eliminated program options in favor of full inclusion models, the passage of 1041 is considered a victory indeed for deaf and hard of hearing students who benefit from options.
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  • include a Communication Plan. Still, it's not happen
  • rtheless, we encourage parents to take the initiative and team with your IEP staff to create a Communication Plan for your child at your next
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    Deaf students/children reforms. the new bill of rights for the deaf.
Jason Holman

New Math-to-Speech Technologies to Help Blind and Visually Impaired Students Master Mat... - 0 views

  • This new math-to-speech technology will provide students who are blind or have other visual impairments, the tools they need to learn, practice, and take math and science tests on a more equal footing with their classroom peers.
  • replay voiced segments in mathematically meaningful ‘chunks.’ Our goal is to provide students and teachers with a better system for voicing mathematical notation that includes some truly useful functionality.”
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    Interesting
Jason Holman

US seeks to mine social media to predict future | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones N... - 0 views

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    Social media impact on future
Ellen Conkey

Cleveland Indians sign 5 of 7 players eligible for arbitration: Asdrubal Cabrera and Ra... - 0 views

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    Tribe trades/ who is staying for the 2012 season 
Maggie Barnes

Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics - 2 views

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  •   Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
  • Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development
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    Here is a website for Early Childhood Education..Teaching children how to read and learning their ABC'S
Eric Calvert

Connectivism « Connectivism - 1 views

  • A teacher/instructor/professor obviously plays numerous roles in a traditional classroom: role model, encourager, supporter, guide, synthesizer.
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      What other roles can you think of that teachers might play?
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      Coach, babysitter.
  • This model works well when we can centralize both the content (curriculum) and the teacher
  • Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change
Christian Daley

Journal of Chemical Education Online: About JCE : Features : Feature - 0 views

  • The aim of this feature column is to provide insight about the educational changes that can result from technological developments, especially the evolution of interactive education based on multimedia.In classrooms and laboratories throughout the world, rapidly advancing information technologies are changing the face of education in chemistry. This column deals with educational changes that can result from technological developments, including interactive on-line approaches and the integration of multimedia materials. Such education may involve the use of technology in a variety of settings, from the traditional lecture hall or laboratory to virtual or distributed classrooms. Instructional and information technologies have, in some cases, made entirely new educational environments and practices possible. Technology may be used to communicate interactively and in real-time with students who are off-campus, perhaps in other states or countries. Multimedia can be used on-line in homework or exam situations to probe conceptual understanding and aid in the visualization of microscopic chemical phenomena. As these changes occur in chemical education, it is critical to guide them by answering questions such as:
Trevor Tom

science classroom activities integrating technology | Teaching Science and Math - 0 views

  • Students learn how to use these tools for academic purposes and, at the same time, can transfer their use to their personal lives and future professional careers.
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      Here are some good suggestions for ways to use technology in the classroom. Some are ideas we have already discussed in class, and others are new suggestions.
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    Tools and Suggestions for Teaching Math and Science
Brittany Jackson

Official Livemocha Press Releases | Livemocha Press - 1 views

  • Livemocha, the world’s largest online language learning service, today announced the Livemocha Scholarship Program, which offers free and discounted foreign language services to high schools and community colleges across the nation. Livemocha aspires to create a world in which every person is fluent in multiple languages and to help support this mission will donate approximately five million dollars of language learning to U.S. schools in 2012. Schools can now apply for the needs-based Livemocha 2012 Scholarship Program offering discounts and free language learning solutions.
  • In the United States today, less than 40% of high school students and 8% of college students are enrolled in the study of a foreign language. According to a recent survey on multilingual talent in the workplace, 33% of Fortune 500 companies will require knowledge of a foreign language in order to qualify for employment.
  • Livemocha’s initiative is also dedicated to enhancing English as a second language (ESL) instruction for students in the process of learning English, or English Learners.
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  • “It’s clear that the English-only mentality is no longer acceptable in light of our increasingly globalized world,” said Michael Schutzler, CEO of Livemocha
  • Livemocha is a company committed to helping every person on earth achieve fluency in a new language. As the world’s largest online language learning community, Livemocha fuses traditional learning methods with online practice, and interaction with native language speakers from around the world.
  • http://www.livemocha.com.
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    This is an interesting article and the other link I tried to send didn't get done properly. My apologies. But, it's about foreign language programs in schools and how livemocha hopes to financially assist schools. 
Morgan Roberts

Why Technology Matters News | www.tpschool.org | city country classroom progressive pri... - 0 views

  • Over time, I realized that I had become a technology mediator of sorts, someone with a pedagogical background, who helped guide faculty and students as they faced decisions regarding technology use in the classroom.
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      This school is using technology to help the students but supporting the students is their main role at The Philadelphia School in Philadelphia, PA.
  • Last year I left the art classroom, devoting myself to helping other teachers and students mindfully navigate the use of digital technology in classrooms throughout the school.  I remain less a techie than an educator who keeps the students – not the technology – at the center of all we do at The Philadelphia School.
Bridgette Neighbors

Earlychildhood NEWS - Article Reading Center - 0 views

  • We are always looking for the magic bullet, something that will solve all our problems. And, today this magic bullet for education is technology. It will solve all our problems! It will increase academic skills, reduce dropout rates, eliminate the racial divide in academic performance, and increase SAT scores. And it will make the lives of teachers easier. Well, it may not accomplish all of these goals, but educational technology does have a place in early childhood. Right? It depends on an early childhood program’s overall program goals and objectives, and the program’s goals and objectives for each student. And it depends on how computers are incorporated into the early childhood curriculum (Haugland, 2000).
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