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We are an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun. SpellingCity.com has: - Over 35,000 spelling words and eight spelling games! - A REAL person who says each word and sentence - Thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own!

Course Description This course is designed to help you understand and apply advanced topics in the design, creation, and reuse of learning objects. The course is structured around a practical, hands-on project using learning objects, intermingled with readings and discussion on a variety of topics.

In education circles, the term learning community has become commonplace. It is being used to mean any number of things, such as extending classroom practice into the community; bringing community personnel into the school to enhance the curriculum and learning tasks for students; or engaging students, teachers, and administrators simultaneously in learning - to suggest just a few.

Subtitle: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice[-s] from Around the Globe

Activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world.

This really is a nice list of sites that is applicable to any subject you teach.

"We collected over 50 useful and practical tools and resources that will help you to improve your writing skills. You will find copywriting blogs, dictionaries, references, teaching classes, articles, tools as well as related articles from other blogs."

Welcome to the Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd)! CITEd identifies evidence-based practices for integrating instructional technology to support the achievement of all students.

"...a distillation of cognitive research on learning intended to make your e-learning more effective, and to create a better experience for the learner. These seven principles integrate cognitive and emotional components of learning, and the more that happens, the greater the outcomes."

I usually try to explain and emphasize, that these skills are precisely what are being taught. We are not podcasting in order to teach Audacity nor Garageband. We are not recording students for the fun of using microphone, we are not blogging, so we can practice typing, we are not skyping for the purpose of using a webcam.

In This Post: * Learn what simulations are and aren't. * Understanding where they fit in an organizations' flow of skills. * Learn best practices in designing and creating sims.

An excerpt from the new textbook (which is free to view), Practical Ope Source Software Exploration. The text is licensed under a CC BY-SA-3.0 license.

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This resource is intended to distil lessons learned from various JISC innovation programmes into a "Good Practice Guide for Sustaining and Embedding Innovations". It is intended to support project steering groups and management teams in further and higher education in decision-making in this area.

Free, fun online practice for homophones

A great post by Ian Jukes. The writing is certainly on the wall for the "bring in the expert and sit up straight" style of professional development. I've been wondering for years why schools don't pool their collective expertise to create a culture of learning in their schools. Some of the "experts" that are brought in don't even have the practical or even theoretical expertise of residing staff members. This year a visiting professional told me, "When it comes to schools, there are never any prophets in your own backyard." The zeitgeist is certainly suggesting we need a change.

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" ..[T]his ebook covers the practical questions that often arise when designing and developing an online course. Topics were collected and assembled from questions asked over my years of working closely with educators. It is designed to help educators create an online course that is usable, accessible, and engaging so students get the most out of an online course " (Ebook Short Description, para. 1).

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Thanksgiving is a wonderful occasion to give back something to the community. Learn practical ways to encourage gratefulness this Thanksgiving in First School's newest blog. http://goo.gl/QNK5Ar

This is a fantastic blog resource for educational technology tools and applications. The ideas posted on here are current and applicable to a realistic classroom. I like this resource because it gives you technology ideas that you can take and immediately put into practice in your own classroom.