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Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive - 0 views

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    A television news archive of 9/11 from various networks
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Children of Congo: From War to Witches | SnagLearning - 0 views

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    Impact the war has had on children. In the aftermath of the war, children have endured the brunt of the suffering.
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Inside My Global Classroom | Powerful Learning Practice - 0 views

  • When Hiram Cuevas from Virginia wanted his students to understand the Black Saturday bushfire tragedy that had befallen Victoria in 2009, our students arrived at school before the start of the school day, and his stayed late, so that we could establish a meaningful discussion around the events. Our students and staff were so touched that kids and teachers in a school as far away as Virginia were interested and concerned about events in our part of the world.
  • Probably most important: establish good connections with the teachers you will be working with. Remain in constant contact, double check your time zones (including quirks like daylight savings time policies in each community), and test your connections before starting time.
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    "Over the last two years, students from my school have been fundraising to support Daraja Academy, a school in Kenya that is providing free education for impoverished girls who would be lost to education without such support. I found out about Daraja through Jabiz Raisdana, a teacher I met at a conference in Shanghai and who is in my Twitter network. Jabiz put me onto Mark Lukach, a teacher from San Francisco who is an advocate for Daraja, and acts as a bridge helping people understand the cause. Mark and I remain in contact through email and Twitter, and he has Skyped into our school on several occasions, enthusiastically conveying to our students the need to support girl education in places like Africa where women are so vital to the functioning of society."
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Visual.ly | Infographics & Visualizations. Create, Share, Explore - 0 views

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    Repository of infographics
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Image * After - currently 27512 free textures and images available - 0 views

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    Free data base of images
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Nieman Reports | Summer 2010 - 0 views

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    "Explore the emerging realms of digital territory where news and information reside-or will soon. It's a place where game playing thrives and augmented reality tugs at possibilities. It's where video excels, while the appetite for long-form text and the experience of "deep reading" is diminished, and it's where the allure of multitasking greets the crush of information. Learn how young people negotiate their journey, and travel inside the brain to discover its capacities in the digital realm. Dig deeper into topics covered in the magazine by clicking on the books in our digital library to reveal selected videos, articles, blogs and Web sites"
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2 EDUCATE. . .2 INSPIRE. . . 4 ACTION! - 0 views

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    "The 4 Action Initiative has created a comprehensive curriculum and resource guide that will include seven thematic units for grades K-12. Each unit draws on new and existing curricula covering multiple subject areas ranging from human behavior to the history of terrorism to recovery and building a better future. "
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BBC - Podcasts - Witness - 0 views

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    Witness - history as told by the people who were there. Five days a week we will be talking to people who lived through moments of history to bring you a personal perspective on world events
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A discovery engine for narrative nonfiction: Byliner.com launches with high h... - 0 views

  • Byliner.com, which launches today, wants to be the Pandora of narrative nonfiction. It offers users a recommendation service that suggests new authors they might like, as well as automatic Facebook updates whenever a favorite writer publishes a new story. It also offers writer profile pages that gather their long-form stories from across the web together with links to the Amazon pages of their published books.
  • But the sheer scale of Byliner.com — a rigorously curated 29,760 feature articles, as of yesterday, and growing — seems out of proportion to this simple goal. Tayman is a long-form true believer. Like other journalists in the industry, he’s seen the evidence that there is a strong web readership for new long-form stories
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    "It's a nonfiction nerd's fantasy: a database of nearly 30,000 feature stories, meticulously organized, sleekly presented, and fully searchable - by author, by publication, by topic."
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United Nations Statistics Division - 0 views

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    "The Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. We compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries' efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems. We facilitate the coordination of international statistical activities and support the functioning of the UN Statistical Commission as the apex entity of the global statistical system."
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Landmarks for Schools - 0 views

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    "This Web site is dedicated to the idea that the very nature of information is changing, practically before our eyes. It is changing in what it looks like, where we find it, what we look at to view it, what we can do with it, and how we communicate it. Here you will find information and tools designed to help us redefine literacy for the 21st Century."
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TeachPaperless: Exam Day: Demonstrating Understanding through Collaboration and Connection - 0 views

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    Copy of final exam
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Social Studies Chat - 0 views

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    Social Studies Ning
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Six Reasons Why Textbooks Should Stop Being Textbooks : 2¢ Worth - 0 views

  • This makes a lot of sense to me — textbook as platform to be populated by the very teachers who will use them.
  • Can’t teachers respectfully and with regard for the law select, shape, mash and mix existing digital content into modules or learning objects for their learners. Might we even see commercial modules, produced by what use to be the textbook industry, t
  • ollowing the same model, communities of teachers can contributed well researched and carefully designed modules for portions of their curriculum (or standards if you insist) that they know well and about which they are especially passionate.
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  • Might content curation become a 21st century skill that learners should be developing as part of their formal education? Should students be guided in growing their own digital textbooks into personal digital libraries?
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    "Yesterday, Mashable author, Sarah Kessler, wrote "The Case for Making Online Textbooks Open Source," where she drew attention to programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon that post lectures and other course materials online for free. "
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Civic Mirror | turns classrooms into countries, students into citizens, and teachers in... - 0 views

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    Teacher showing The Civic Mirror http://bit.ly/hwZ8Vg Kids can create their own nations. Cool. #plpnetwork
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Egypt: After The Revolution on Vimeo - 0 views

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    Documentary on Egypt after the revolution. Interviews and commentary
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The Food Price Rollercoaster | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hun... - 0 views

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    "Want to understand how high food prices really are? And how they're affecting the world's poor? Take a look at this infographic, which also underlines how hikes in food prices mean the poorest families have to make painful savings in areas such as health and schooling for their children"
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Apps in Education: Killer Presentation Tool for iPad - 0 views

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    Blog reviewing use of iPads in the classroom
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