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"IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration."

Great tool to let students see comparisons between world events and their home.

It is not enough to teach students how to understand information and communications technology. At some point you are going to have to assess their knowledge and understanding. And therin lies the rub!!

Nice use of Movie making to show understanding

Also for the ipad! Exploriments are simulation-based interactive learning units for enhancing conceptual understanding in Science and Math in an experiential manner. Useful for students and teachers alike, Exploriments provide a highly interactive, exploratory, and engaging experience.

Don't know how to work Microsoft Excel? This is the page for you! Students in ISB middle school have been making tutorials of widely used programs. They have worked a lot to help people around them have a better understanding of technology. On this page you will find how to make bar graphs, math equations, pie charts... This page will come in handy, because Excel, when you learn to use it, is a quick and speedy way to do homework, projects, and lessons.

S.O.L.O. Stands For: S tructure of O bserved L earning O utcomes It is a taxonomy - a collection of controlled vocabulary terms organized into a hierarchical structure. Each term in a taxonomy is in one or more parent/child (broader/narrower) relationships to other terms in the taxonomy. et.afsnet.org/glossary.html It was developed by Biggs J and COLLIS K,1982. It describes 5 levels of increasing complexity in a student's understanding of a subject, through five stages, and it is claimed to be applicable to any subject area.

How cool is this! For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive.

Concept: Creating a small, paper blogging community gives students a chance to understand "blogging" and safely practice having an "online persona."

Looking for some Geometry Help? Our materials here review the basic terms and concepts in geometry and provide further lessons to help you develop your understanding of geometry and its applications to solving problems in real life.

Mathtrain.TV is a free educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.

Kids teaching kids with video, could be great teaching or to recreate to have kids show understanding

A very easy to understand guide to Podcasting in the classroom. Anyone keen to try it let me know.

The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program was developed to create awareness of intellectual property rights and foster a better understanding of the rights connected with creative content. Four units comprise the curriculum resources. Each unit consists of standalone yet complementary lesson plans that play off a creative rights scenario presented through a case study.

What is the Comprehension Task Maker? The Comprehension Task Maker is a program that can be downloaded and installed on your computer. Once installed, you can use the Comprehension Task Maker to create your own customised interactive multimedia comprehension tasks. When creating a comprehension task there are two main componants: * The information for comprehension * The questions the player must complete to show they understand the information provided. Questions can be either multiple choice or True - False. Because you decide on the information and questions, you can create tasks for any level and for any topic. Tasks can be made in any language using any script. Finished tasks are saved as webpages and can be used for any non commercial purposes. They can be copied onto the school network, a memory stick to share with others. Tasks can be linked to the schools intranet or ineternet site, or included in a blog.