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A website talking about what works for youth in Australia

A website talking about what works for youth in Australia

The teacher work sample focuses on the assessment of student learning and adapting assessment and instructional strategies to meet student needs. Methods, data, and lessons learned will be shared.

The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) was today advised by an Expert Working Group that breakthroughs in the science of learning, including brain function, motivation and the practice of teaching, have the potential to transform how individual Australians acquire and retain knowledge throughout their lives.

The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) was today advised by an Expert Working Group that breakthroughs in the science of learning, including brain function, motivation and the practice of teaching, have the potential to transform how individual Australians acquire and retain knowledge throughout their lives.

An online writing scaffold that provides frameworks for young people to learn about different text types and examples of student works - helpful for supporting the learning of English

An online writing scaffold that provides frameworks for young people to learn about different text types and examples of student works - helpful for supporting the learning of English

Save Save pages from your computer or phone Read on or offline Read at home, work, on the plane, or during your commute; even without an internet connection Access Anywhere Read It Later is integrated into many popular applications and platforms you may already use.

Save Save pages from your computer or phone Read on or offline Read at home, work, on the plane, or during your commute; even without an internet connection Access Anywhere Read It Later is integrated into many popular applications and platforms you may already use.

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn. Dropbox works seamlessly with your operating system

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn. Dropbox works seamlessly with your operating system

Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email. * Stay up to date Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. * Share with your friends Use Google Reader's built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family. * Use it anywhere, for free Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.

Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email. * Stay up to date Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. * Share with your friends Use Google Reader's built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family. * Use it anywhere, for free Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.

getCITED is an online, member-controlled academic database, directory and discussion forum. Its contents are entered and edited by members of the academic community. By putting its content in the hands of its members, getCITED makes it possible to enter in and search for publications of all types. This means that, in addition to the books and articles accessible with other databases, book chapters, conference papers, working papers, reports, papers in conference proceedings, and other such research outlets can all be entered and then searched for within getCITED. In addition, getCITED makes it possible to link publications with all the publications in their bibliographies, thereby making possible a wide variety of publication and citation reports.

getCITED is an online, member-controlled academic database, directory and discussion forum. Its contents are entered and edited by members of the academic community. By putting its content in the hands of its members, getCITED makes it possible to enter in and search for publications of all types. This means that, in addition to the books and articles accessible with other databases, book chapters, conference papers, working papers, reports, papers in conference proceedings, and other such research outlets can all be entered and then searched for within getCITED. In addition, getCITED makes it possible to link publications with all the publications in their bibliographies, thereby making possible a wide variety of publication and citation reports.

Story Stage is an interactive and highly creative puppet-based literacy resource. It encourages and facilitates groups or pairs of children working together around the computer to devise and create their own imaginative retellings of Traditional Stories.

Story Stage is an interactive and highly creative puppet-based literacy resource. It encourages and facilitates groups or pairs of children working together around the computer to devise and create their own imaginative retellings of Traditional Stories.

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself.

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: * planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; * development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; * work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. * networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: * planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; * development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; * work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. * networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

Working with statistics, probability and data sets

"Microsoft Math gives students tools, tutorials and instructions, all in one place! Its large collection of tools, tutorials, and instructions helps students learn mathematical concepts, while quickly solving math and science problems. Students see how to solve problems step-by-step - instantly! Microsoft Math works for many grade levels, studying subjects from basic math to calculus."

Dr Julia Atkins work on Learning By Design. Looks good.

An approach for adapting instruction based on student outputs

" For over a decade, artists of all mediums - print, video, multimedia or the web - have known Bryce, the affordable 3D software for achieving breathtakingly realistic imagery. Top Reasons to Upgrade The latest incarnation, Bryce 6, will give those artists along with the new generation of creators the ability to work faster and create more realistic environments than ever before. Whether you are a professional designer, or a 3D graphics enthusiast, Bryce 6 provides you with the tools to literally create a world of your own."

"Moreofit is the first (and best) website similarity search engine. Give moreofit a website you're interested in, and it'll suggest to you alternative highly related and popular websites to explore. why? Sometimes it's hard to know what to search for, and sometimes search just doesn't cut through the clutter. If you've already found a site you love, just tell moreofit, and it will show you similar and alternative websites. how does it work? moreofit takes over 130,000,000 instances of people manually organizing and describing websites and combines this with sophisticated matching and clustering technology. In short, it's magic. "

Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.

Share, Remix, Reuse - Legally Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

Collaborative mind mapping in your browser Isn't 42 the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? Well, in this case it means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42. Manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world - collaborative, browser-based and for free.