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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative. This multi-year project aims to help improve both college readiness and college completion in the U.S. through the use of technology. Administered through the nonprofit EDUCAUSE, the program will provide grants to organization that will help develop technology tools to more teachers, students, and schools.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative.

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This wiki was created to easily help educators find other educators on Twitter that have the same interests as them (that teach in the same content area). Check out the list of educators on the pages linked below and add your Twitter name to the appropriate list too.

This wiki was created to easily help educators find other educators on Twitter that have the same interests as them (that teach in the same content area). Check out the list of educators on the pages linked below and add your Twitter name to the appropriate list too.

This site could be used as an entry writing assignment to begin class, journal writing, or even a connection to today. Students have to read the paper and add their own "on this day" description.

Making your own SMART Board lessons is not as difficult as you might think. The following article will give you some tips on how to make them a structured interactive learning experience for your students. A SMART Notebook file, complete with example techniques, is also available to download. Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/86120.aspx#ixzz104cjWkK9

a guide to engineering careers for high school girls! Imagine what life would be like without pollution controls to preserve the environment, life-saving medical equipment, or low-cost building materials for fighting global poverty.

Sources of Copyright-Friendly Media These are greate places to look for images, music and sounds for your WebQuests, Powerpoint presentations and video productions. Most require only that attribution be given to the originator. Check each site for conditions of use.

John Q. Easton, the man that President Obama plans to nominate to head the Institute of Education Sciences

Welcome to CreateDebate! CreateDebate is a social tool that democratizes the decision-making process. Join Now! * Click on a debate that you care about. * Read arguments within that debate and vote them up or down. * Earn points and become a thought leader! To learn more, check out the FAQ or Tour.

Interesting list of reasons to use eTexts. States 90% of Core higher ed. texts available as eTexts. That seems high to me.

The Learning Registry project is an informal collaboration among several federal agencies that share the same goal: making federal learning resources and primary source materials easier to find, access and integrate into educational environments.

The Learning Registry project is an informal collaboration among several federal agencies that share the same goal: making federal learning resources and primary source materials easier to find, access and integrate into educational environments.

Living and Learning in a Cynical World-The "Conan Challenge." How do we help our students to learn to engage in serious discourse pertatining to complex issues in a world where winning the argument is everything?

This is an important report for us to consider when rolling out New Worlds. It provides support for using a service restricted to PAIUnet.

This is my burgeoning collection of videos and other resources envisioning the future of print. Know of any others I should add? If so, send me a link or add it to the comment area. Thanks! Scott McLeod

A collection of videos related to the future of print.

WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page.

First and foremost, LAL is a writing contest for young readers in grades 4 - 12. How has an author's work--novel, nonfiction, poetry--changed your view of the world or yourself? That's the LAL writing challenge. Don't write a book report, we tell our young readers. The author already wrote the book and knows what it is about. What the author does not know is how YOU responded to his or her work. Write about that--your personal reader's response!