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He can load lessons enhanced with video clips, homework assignments, quizzes, videos, music, books on tape and more on the class iPods for use in all subjects he teaches, including English, math, social studies and reading.

Each document containsed a set of subject specific advice, guidance and examples to support more effective use of ICT in the teaching and learning of science. There is some great case studies in each one. I was pleased to have been able to have some input into the Science one - a colleague of mine wrote it and I provided some of the ideas.

Using Voicethread for Collaborative Thought. . .

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Skinheads Arrested In Plot to Kill Obama

Welcome. TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.

Spelling videos have been created for each of the 3000+ words in the National Spelling Bank, from which teachers can generate and assign a word list to their Key Stage 2 pupils. Memorable characters help to reinforce spelling concepts in an enjoyable way that will appeal to various learning styles.

Copyright & Fair Use in Teaching

During the 1990's, a former student of Bloom's, Lorin Anderson, led a new assembly which met for the purpose of updating the taxonomy, hoping to add relevance for 21st century students and teachers. This time "representatives of three groups [were present]: cognitive psychologists, curriculum theorists and instructional researchers, and testing and assessment specialists" (Anderson, & Krathwohl, 2001, p. xxviii). Like the original group, they were also arduous and diligent in their pursuit of learning, spending six years to finalize their work. Published in 2001, the revision includes several seemingly minor yet actually quite significant changes. Several excellent sources are available which detail the revisions and reasons for the changes. A more concise summary appears here. The changes occur in three broad categories: terminology, structure, and emphasis.

Live Audience Polling

The perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page.

Most challenging scene to write: "I had a court transcript of the autopsy report in which the medical examiner described the condition of Michael Donald's body. Just relaying that in prose form was difficult, because these were the details of a crime committed against an actual person."

Ravi Howard spent the last few years investigating a murder that happened in Mobile, Ala., where Howard is originally from. He had gone to school up North and made a home there, but found himself pulled back to the South to raise a family. The same thing is happening to many of his friends, too.

Online researchers will be pleased to note that Google’s Book Search Project has now expanded to include print magazines. Google has partnered with titles such as New York magazine, Men’s Health, Popular Science and others to digitize past issues and present full articles which can be found via keyword searching.

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High School SMART Lessons

'Last Lynching' Shows Racial Inequity, Advancement

What is the best way to give feedback on a piece of work produced in Google Docs? What formatting tools are most appropriate to use when leaving comments? How do you organise 30 to 60 pieces of work handed in to you? How do children hand in work? What new possibilities does this process uncover?