Gifted Education 2.0

what motivates people is primarily NOT money or rewards when it comes to cognitive tasks. Instead it's autonomy, challenge and mastery

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.

multitude of resources and tools for educational technology

"Welcome to EasyPrompter This web-based teleprompter application is free, doesn't require any plugins or flash and is fully configurable. It's so browser compatible, you can even use it on your iPhone! Take a look at some of the features: * Supports mirrored text via an exclusive font download! * Elapsed time display * Works in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome * Supports keyboard and mouse controls (start/pause, ff/rew, etc) so you can control the prompter remotely * Can run full screen (F11 in most browsers) with no distracting ads, banners or control graphics * Control pad can be undocked for 2 screen operation - this way there is nothing but the text on the second monitor"

Great to recommend books for your gifted readers based on what they already enjoy.

An online museum sharing some specific and unusual topics: poetry through the ages, Color vision and art, what is color, Van Gogh's letters and much more

"When children work on science projects, experiments, investigations, or other science activities their curiosity can be stimulated by asking questions. This helps children develop a better understanding of science concepts. Questioning is part of the attributes of inquiry-based science and central to critical 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 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."

Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Our MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. Or, post it to your website

Recognizing and nurturing giftedness in young children presents an important challenge to educators. Schools need to respond to their educational needs before their abilities diminish or become less recognizable to those who can do something about them.

Welcome to Admongo where advertising is all around you. Online. Outside. On television. Who makes ads? How do they work? What do they want you to do? Here, you will explore, discover, and learn. Can you make it to the top?

tutorial and resources for using Podcasts as writing assignments

Stage'D is definitely a work-in-progress, but already there's lots of fun to be had. You can pick characters and choose costumes for them. Then you can pick from a library of animations for them to perform, and don't forget to give'em some dialog! Pick some scenery and you officially have a comic, easy as that.

a collection of maps of past and future including climate history, Paleo-globes, earth history, and animations

video tutorial for Aviary's Myna

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.