Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?," puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. As Nat navigates the city and completes tasks, he encounters a spectrum of people living and working there when tensions mount before the Boston Massacre. Ultimately, the player determines Nat's fate by deciding where his loyalties lie.
This is a site that encourages problem solving. Students select "missions" to complete in the real world and then then post the solutions. It's a facinating way to get students to be real problem solvers.
Students post questions to their course page, which peers and educators can then respond to. Instructors moderate the discussion, endorse the best responses and track the popularity of questions in real time.
Piazza’s platform is specifically designed to speed response times. The site is supported by a system of notification alerts, and the average question on Piazza will receive an answer in 14 minutes.
At Stanford, the first to start using the service, more than half of the undergraduates are registered users.
a computer science professor at Princeton, started using Piazza for her programming systems class last semester.
Piazza gave the students a community, especially in the middle of the night, when the instructors were sleeping,” Professor Rexford said. “The students were more interactive in general, and it was a time saver all-around.”
a list of 20 skills that "every" educator should have and links to the sites and tutorials related to those skills. Great set of basic skills for 21st Century teachers and administrators