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When you are struggling with academic writing, your professors try to motivate you with completely useless advice: practice, research, improve your vocabulary and you'll do just fine. Their intentions are good, but that "strategy" never works in practice.

So you enrolled in college and your first term began successfully? Congratulations! You have a lot to celebrate since the following four years will probably be the most memorable ones in your life. However, college also brings many responsibilities.

Looots of links to lesson plans and activities (using online resources and not) for language lessons. Languages taught include: English, French, Spanish , German, Japanese, Latin, and many others.

Oxnevad suggests, "Students can develop transferrable knowledge and skills as they engage in learning experiences that require them to construct knowledge" (¶1). She argues for "seamless integration of technology" that will enable "students students to have access to the tools and information they need for success" (¶2), and proposes five instructional strategies for teachers to use to achieve those ends, namely: 1. Preparing "complex questions that require students to use higher level thinking skills" (Help students uncover knowledge, ¶2); 2. Facilitating learning from engaging and online resources, rather than delivering content (Eliminate the front of the classroom); 3. Creating opportunities for real world collaboration (Encourage collaboration); 4. Exploiting classroom and online opportunities for "frequent [and] informal assessment to gauge the effectiveness of your instruction and make adjustments to maximize the learning experience for each student" (Informally assess students [and instructional practices]); and 5. Preparing and publishing screencast tutorials for students to peruse whenever necessary, "...[i]Instead of spending valuable instructional time teaching the same tech skills over and over again to individual students" (Provide students with built in tech support). This October 30, 2012, post ends with an illustration comprising focus questions and a ThingLink product of fifth grade students' work. A list of links to related posts follows.

Photoshop is one of the most powerful and useful platform for graphics and creative, Photoshop was discovered earlier 90s by Adobe which is the largest software provider organization which provides technical software which makes softcopy work easy and easiest, Photoshop is use to create any graphics or edit or retouch

"The Web's Largest Resource for Definitions & Translations" (deck, ¶1, 2012.08.29) - Thanks to Nik Peachey for Scoop.it-ing this site.

Blog about Windows Live Hotmail.com tutorials, tips, Hotmail Support, available utilities or resources for better use of electronic mail Hotmail.com This unofficial site is ideal for those seeking help with the use of Hotmail and its available features to promote productivity and mobility even after office hours.

Cloud Computing allow companies of all sizes to scale, monitor, deploy and build applications using resources over the internet. With internet access we can easily design a presentation in the cloud which is nowadays known as Cloud Presentations.

Literally, producing a greater outcome through existing scarce resources is called Optimization. This thought can legitimately be associated with the digital environment. Although, a computer system has limited resources in terms of system memory...

This website is filled with different links to many different websites that are useful for lesson plans and curriculum resources.

If you are one of many Windows users who have just upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, you may be finding useful resources to tweak and tick your new OS to be optimized for best performance. Windows 8.1 is an update to Windows 8 which came up with some security enhancements, but also bugs too.

"... [T]hese packets, in compliance with copyright law, are excerpted from those distributed at our professional development trainings. ...The full packets can only be obtained by enrolling in our professional development workshops" (Professional Development Programs, ¶2, 2010.07.23).

The top five search tools for finding Flickr images are designed to help teachers and students locate just the right image for use in any subject area and project. Without these tools finding the right image on this image hosting site is often an impossible, or at least a tedious, task. The value of this site is its ability to provide digital pictures which are often impossible for a teacher to obtain any other way. Like everything else on the internet, trying to find something is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This where the top five search tools become valuable resources for teachers and students trying to find images comes into play. These search engines are specifically designed to search the more than three billion pictures on the Flickr hosting site.

Stimulating critical thinking using technology has the potential to create more in depth understanding of science and math content by students when engaged in learning activities which integrate in-class and on-line technology resources. Technology tools support stimulation of both inquiry-based and critical thinking skills by engaging students in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world outside their classroom. This is accomplished through learning content through the lens of video to multimedia to the internet (Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement, NCREL, 2005).

The use of web based technology is growing by leaps and bounds every day. These online tools are the new set of keys for opening your students' minds. The vast resources on the Internet are making the use traditional methods of teaching and learning obsolete in countless ways.

videos, reading, etc. about implementing the 5Cs in the classroom

a pbworks wiki with lots of resources for education