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"A professional learning community or PLC is an opportunity for a group of colleagues within a specific field to participate in collaborative learning. Typically PLCs are used in schools as a way to organize teachers, students and/or community personnel into specific working groups where they can help enhance curriculum, share visions, contribute and encourage each other with the ultimate purpose of improving education."

DesignBlocks is a drag-and-drop programming language based on Scratch, TurtleArt and Processing. It is being developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. DesignBlocks is currently in beta and we are actively seeking feedback. The current system is based on ActionScript3, and we are currently experimenting with HTML5 as well.

"As you know, classroom management presents the most difficult - and most important - aspect of the teaching profession. Maintaining discipline and winning students' cooperation requires tremendous skill. Our book, "Classrooms That Work: A Teacher's Guide to Discipline Without Stress" and the resulting companion workshops for educators have been developed to provide teachers with the proven techniques and strategies they need to meet the challenges of today's teaching environment. These are based on theoretical and practical guidelines towards creating a democratic classroom based on mutual respect between teachers and students, as well as group problem solving. Thousands of teachers have already proven the worth of this book, using it every day in their classrooms."

"SEDS, the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, is a group dedicated to expanding the role of human exploration and development of space. We seek to educate the public in such a way as to attain this goal. We have many ways of doing this, including educational outreach, conferences, and chapter projects."

Connect with colleagues, create and share content in your own portfolio, join groups, engage in discussions, attend real-time online events using Elluminate's powerful web collaboration environment, and much more. LearnCentral is for anyone who is passionate about teaching and learning.

The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization. The Web site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy.

"Technology rocks in Virginia. Membership is complimentary at www.vste.org. Check out our professional learning community groups. "

Great tool for quickly dividing a class up into teams. Keep a text list of students in your class saved in notepad or word and just copy and paste them into Team Maker.