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This website offers Projects where a CAS student could help 3-6 younger students to work on. If interested see Mrs Garcia. The Thinkquesta are investigations covering topics such as ..... How can humans and animals live together harmoniously? How do you imagine the school of the future? How can we provide access to safe drinking water for everyone in our world? How can we take better care of our world and its resources? How can we end hunger in our world? What beliefs do people have in different parts of the world? What role does art or music play in our lives? What can we learn from the world of sports? What lessons have you learned from a favorite book or film? What lessons have you learned from history? What kind of business would you start to serve your local community? What can you do to lead a healthy life? What is life like for people in your local community? What makes a good world citizen? What leader do you most admire, and why? How would you introduce a tourist to your home town (or country)?

"This site is a resource for educators everywhere to learn how to use YouTube as an educational tool. There are lesson plan suggestions, highlights of great educational content on YouTube, and training on how to film your own educational videos. This site was written by teachers for teachers, and we want to continue that spirit of community-involvement. We're creating a new YouTube newsletter for teachers (sign up above!) and are asking teachers to submit their favorite YouTube playlists for us to highlight on YouTube EDU. "

"The Most Common Grammar Gaffes Writers Make (and How To Avoid Them)"

"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."

A Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators Every day, you see how cyberbullying hurts students, disrupts classrooms, and impacts your school's culture. So how should you handle it? What are the right things to do and say? What can you do today that will help your students avoid this pitfall of our digital world? We created this free toolkit to help you take on those questions and take an effective stand against cyberbullying. So start here. Use it now. Rely on it to start your year off right.

"Other TeachersFirst Special Topics Collections Modeling and helping students learn about Internet safety is the responsibility of every adult in our students' lives, including teachers in all subject areas and parents at home. As adults learn more about wise online behavior and build awareness of our own digital footprints, we must continue to share and openly discuss these issues with the young people in our classrooms and homes. Use these resources to stay up to date on the pros and cons of technology's capabilities. Build awareness instead of fear as you and your students discover how the power of the Internet can be harnessed for safe learning and communication. Be sure also to visit the TeachersFirst Edge for teacher-friendly tips on using today's web tools safely and within school policies. "

Welcome to the new DIGIZEN website The Digizen website provides information for educators, parents, carers, and young people. It is used to strengthen their awareness and understanding of what digital citizenship is and encourages users of technology to be and become responsible DIGItal citiZENS. It shares specific advice and resources on issues such as social networking and cyberbullying and how these relate to and affect their own and other people's online experiences and behaviours.

what it is, how it works and how to understand and deal with cyberbullies

tips for working with other people's material in blogs

A guide to blogging etiquette.

Whether you're a student facing final papers or a parent helping kids with research assignments, Google has just made the process a lot easier with a new tool that automates the research process.

This video is basically a free webinar presented by Google certified trainers Kevin Brookhouser and Tim Lee where they unveiled some of Google forms secrets and provided simple directions on how to create self-grading quiz forms within Google Docs. The transcript of this video is available HERE.

How do I use The Plagiarism Checker ? Just go to The Plagiarism Checker main page . You will find a box there where you can paste the suspected text or paragraph you have copied and click on " check the paper" button and that's it .