Now that you and/or your students are using wikis and blogs, are you curious what could be added to them? From animated slideshows to collaborative documents to interactive review games, many great (and free) tools are available. As a follow up to my previous post "What Teachers Should and Should Not Be Posting on their Classroom Webpages", I've pulled a master list of embedding options that will hopefully spark your imagination.
Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.
The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.
On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.
This document is a compilation of available worldwide ICT4E policies and plans, at both a national and Ministry of Education level (where available).To enhance the reach and quality of teaching and learning through the effective use of ICTs, policy makers need to be aware of how to best utilize ICTs to create value-add for their country's education system. A supportive policy environment and framework, developed at the national level is key to the successful integration of ICTs into any education system.
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The revised and final version of the Literacy Learning Progressions: Meeting the Reading and Writing Demands of the Curriculum was launched on 9 February 2010 and the documents are being sent to all schools during the weeks 15 - 26 February 2010.
There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.
The idea of the Teachers Animation Toolkit is to provide templates for a few generic types of flash animation. The links below take you to the animations together with some notes on adapting and using them, Flash document files (.fla) and any other associated files such as xml and text variable files.