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"The SIFMA Foundations's Stock Market Game™ (SMG) gives students the chance to invest a hypothetical $100,000 in an on-line portfolio. They think they're playing a game. You know they're learning economic and financial concepts they'll use for the rest of their lives."

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From the National Constitution Museum, an all day webcast is available. This year's video is called "Constitution Hall Pass: Freedom of Expression". After viewing the video, your class can ask the museum education staff questions about the constitution. Last year Sandra Day O'Connor answered students questions and this year the Museum promises similar famous visitors to sit in on their broadcast.

"Spark curiosity in the classroom. Discovery Education and Intel have teamed up to create Curiosity in the Classroom, a website designed to bring teachers, students and families on a journey through life's biggest questions."

Campus Bird is a free site designed to help students locate a college that fits their needs and wants. The site offers all of the usual selection criterion like major, location, campus size that you find on most college search sites. The differentiating aspect of Campus Bird is that they have embedded a Google Maps view of all of the colleges in their index. Once you have selected your search criteria you can quickly view the location of each college and explore the surrounding area. In some cases you will be taken to a virtual tour of a college's campus. Campus Bird says that it is working on adding more virtual tours to their database.

Students will: ♦ acquire knowledge about the lives and works of seven major Spanish artists of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries through technological and other research and by means of a field trip/ or virtual museum tours ♦ learn art-related vocabulary to apply in describing works of art ♦ learn the cultural and historical context of the time period in which each artist lived ♦ prepare oral presentations on one artist using technology (partners) ♦ complete journal entries on at least one work from art all artists ♦ prepare synopses of the life and works of at least four artists for the class quarterly newsletter (small group) ♦ prepare a role-play video: "Interview the Artist"

Have students who need some music? Here is an amazing website that contains music scores of classic music to use. The International Music Score Library Project has an extensive collection of music that can be browsed by computer, timeline, genre, instrumentation or recordings. Written by Naomi Bates

Welcome to the Lane Community College Library This beginning tutorial is meant to familiarize students with basic library concepts. Upon completion, you will be able to: Select appropriate databases to find articles on your subject Find full text articles Determine the difference between scholarly and popular articles Find books Understand the difference between keyword and subject heading searches

"Reconsider the Use of the SAMR Model December 4, 2017 - Leave a comment The four-stage Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition (SAMR) model introduced by Rueben Puentedura back in mid-2000 has not only grown in popularity there are people building upon this its unsubstantiated foundation. The SAMR model was initially intended to help K-12 teachers move the up the ladder of technology use by using tech for the creation of new tasks, tech for a significant redesign, tech as a direct substitute with functional improvement, and tech as a direct substitute, with no functional change. SAMR not only looks like an innocuous model of using technology it also seems to appeal to the way many people tend to approach the use of technology. If we look closely at the fundamental presupposition of its use then we will see that there are serious issues in how the model can enhance learning. The first time I was introduced to the SAMR model was over a decade ago and I recall thinking that this model has a fundamental flaw that many people will tend to overlook. While using technology to simply make an activity or task more efficient or to explore ways to enhance or even redefine that activity or task may seem innocuous or even worthwhile the problem that we run into with this sort of thinking is that we are ignoring the validity of the original task that SAMR is being applied to. For example if you use SAMR to move your paper-based fill in the black worksheet to a digital model (substitution) and then add some branching questions in a google form (augmentation) and then add enabled voice responses (modification) and finally allow your class to create a video to answer the questions (redefinition) the problem is you are still asking your students to regurgitate content regardless how sophisticated the regurgitation becomes. I have also noticed in my time working with hundreds of teachers and faculty that there is a tendency for most people to NOT move beyond t

Was prepared by college and graduate students and last updated 2007. Good place to begin research.

"William Shakespeare is the most widely taught playwright in the English language. By 1588, Shakespeare had left his wife and children to live in London as an actor. During the next ten years, he became a successful playwright, performing for the royal court and building a new theater called the Globe. He retired to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616, where he died soon after. Since that time, few young students of English literature have not heard the line, "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" "