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Alan Christy

Google For Educators - 0 views

  • Apply by 11:59 PDT on 9 February 2012.
  • The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies
  • t. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers wh
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  • 50 innovative educators are selected to attend each GTA based on the merits of their online application. Potential applicants include classroom teachers, curriculum specialists, technology specialists, librarians, administrators, professional trainers, and other education professionals who actively serve the worlds’ primary and secondary teachers and students. Participants are selected based on their professional experience, their passion for teaching and learning, and their successful use of technology in school settings. Since the program relies on a "train-the-trainers" model, we are particularly interested in educators who actively provide technology-related mentoring or training for classroom teachers.
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    Google is accepting applications for free professional development to a select few.
Shannon Wells

cooltoolsforschools - Home - 0 views

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    This is the actual webite from the blog that I previously bookmarked. It is very interesting and I love the categories.
Alan Christy

Blog on Free Technology for Teachers - 0 views

  • Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology Pages
  • gText is a new service offering free group text messaging. There are other services that do the same thing, but those services weren't developed by a high school student the way that gText was.
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    So, this is just a blog, but very cool for high school. Older posts may be worth exploring. On this page a high school student's app for group-texting, and is being used by teachers to text assignments and more to students!
Shawn Miller

Instructional Technology Tools for Teachers - 1 views

  • For Online Teaching & Learning. Used by both CPS students and teachers.
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      Testing of a Sticky Note.  P.S. I'm not a big fan of Black Board
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    A link to multiple websites for instructional tools for teachers
Candice McMath

Smarthistory, a multimedia web-book about art: discussing About Smarthistory - 0 views

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  • About Our Merger with Khan Academy (October 2011)We are excited to announce that Smarthistory is now part of the Khan Academy. For the past year, we’ve been so impressed by what Sal and his team have accomplished. Our missions are perfectly aligned—we are all working toward a “free world-class education to anyone anywhere.”
  • So, it finally occurred to us, why not use the personal voice that we use when we teach online, along with the multimedia we had already created for our blog and for our courses, to create a more engaging "web-book" that could be used in conjunction with art history survey courses.
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  • A Short History of SmarthistorySmarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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    Taking our assignment and splicing off into a slightly different area, Smarthistory combined with Khan Academy to expand the availability of OER regarding Art History.
Shannon Wells

OER Commons - 1 views

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    Open education resources, free to use, k through 12 and some college cources
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    Repository Critique
Alan Christy

Fun Embeddable Math Games - 0 views

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    Fun Embeddable Math Games from Visa. Families can play together to help learners cooperatively, playing together with their families, and later independently, through the use of technology as an educational tool.
Alan Christy

Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility - 1 views

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    There are many types of cognitive and learning disabilities and an even wider variety of interests and capabilities of users who have these disabilities.This population is larger than those with all other physical and sensory disabilities combined. Cognitive accessibility can be defined by the following principles: Simple, Consistent, Clear, Multi-modal, Error-tolerant, Attention-focusing. Improving web accessibility for this audience will improve access for everyone.
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