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Judy O'Connell - Today, 5:04 AM YouTube for Schools: Join the Global Classroom Today! YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. We've developed YouTube for Schools, a network setting that school administrators can turn on to grant access only to the educational content from YouTube EDU. Teachers can choose from the hundreds of thousands of videos on YouTube EDU created by more than 600 partners like the Smithsonian, TED, Steve Spangler Science, and Numberphile.

"Schools Build Community with Student News Programs Schools are using digital video production in their efforts to foster 21st century skills in their students. Administrators are finding that these programs can also reach out to disconnected students and strengthen school community, with kids as young as 5 years old contributing."

"Schools Global Footprint is a teaching resource that helps you to explore and to reduce the environmental effect your school has on the planet. The global footprint calculator is a great tool for helping you reduce your schools' ecological footprint by taking action on six topic areas including: energy, transport, food, waste, water and buildings."

"159 stories of 137 internationalized U.S. schools connecting with 98 countries."

""Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers.""

"Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of innovative and effective teaching practices in America's schools."

An interesting concept, uploading model lessons from schools and classrooms all over. They are starting with grades 3-8 and will soon have kindergarten to 12th.

Global Connections encourages school leaders worldwide to develop global consciousness and to promote international cooperation in their schools.

"The WWF and BT Green Ambassadors scheme aims to encourage a new generation of sustainability champions. It provides everything you'll need to set up and reinvigorate your schools' gream team. With free kits for every team member, team kit and online teacher's handbook, and a comprehensive website, you will have everything you need to make your team a success. You could also request the help of a BT volunteer to help you with your plans."

Rafi.ki is an online learning community using simple technology to build successful school partnerships, transforming pupils into global citizens. We can connect to other schools through this website safely. We are a member of this site - user: britanica password: abcdef

"Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). "

  Goalbook brings a student's team around their individual learning plan   Schools use our software to successfully implement IEPs, SSTs, and Intervention plans

free courses and documentaries

Assembly ideas and teachers' resources to bring Olympic and topical international stories into primary and secondary school assemblies

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)?

"Florida Virtual School's online library. offers plenty of great online resources"

"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. "

Online Homework Help for Research Kids are back to school. Now's the time to arm yourself with helpful places for them to go online if those research assignments prove to be too challenging -- even for you. Check out Common Sense Media's favorite online homework tools."

"Simmons presents a series of creative activities that have advanced her high school students' vocabularies and impressed on them the power of words."