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's to a "Massive Open Online Class". The topic is online learning today and tomorrow.  These things are a lot of fun and your level of participation is very much your own choice. Participation is free and they are a great place to bounce ideas around, or even find out what other educators are thinking.

How to attend Gifted Education Conferences in Second LifeRoya Klingner of The Bavarian Center for Gifted and Talented Children, among the many wonderful things that she does, runs monthly meetings on giftedness in Second Life. These are usually advertised in Mary's Gifted Contacts on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_156128687756927  and on Twitter but are also advertised on The Bavarian Center for Gifted and Talented Children website.

In a digital world, the question is not whether you will leave a mark. The question is, "What kind of mark are you leaving?"

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept.

Aspects of creative thinking that are not usually taught.

Want to know your learning style? Take the quiz. There are 24 questions, and it will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. At the end, you'll find out more about how you learn.

How long are YOU going to live, based on lifestyle and genetics?

Here are 12 great resources for teaching and learning about health, nutrition and exercise. If you know of other great ones, add them in the comment sections.

Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston. Here are the main features of the site: Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams, and Tunnels.

"In all there are 33 pages containing 21 ideas and how to instructions for creating Google Maps placemarks, directions creating and publishing a quiz with Google Docs forms, directions for embedding books into your blog, and visual aids for accessing other Google tools."

Sumanas develops animated tutorials in a variety of formats for many scientific disciplines. Click on the subject headings below to view samples of our animations. Also, don't forget to visit our Science in Focus section for animations that explain science topics that are in the news.

Now that my students are getting more comfortable making online slideshows (especially with Flowgram), they're also getting more interested in including music

Recently I've come to the idea that the question "how do you differentiate?" is the wrong question to ask (or at least coming in the wrong sequence). The essential question should be "what do you differentiate?" By differentiating instruction I am changing something for some group of students. To do this I have to ask myself "what can I change and what do I need to keep the same?" What follows are three cases of differentiation, all of which change a different facet of learning.

Top 5 Augmented Reality Apps for Android

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GoAnimate is a way to easily create animations and share with friends.