The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.
"Created by the Discovery Channel, and the energy that revolutionized media over twenty-five years ago, Discovery Education empowers educators to engage students and transform classrooms by providing dynamic curricular resources, comprehensive assessment services, and customized professional development plans with ongoing support that improve student achievement.
Discovery Education is the #1 provider of digital services to U.S. schools reaching 1 million educators, 35,000,000 students, and is in 60,000 schools"
ArcExplorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) is a downloadable, lightweight GIS tool for exploring geographic data. AEJEE can save and open projects, so work can be shared between users, or between school and home. AEJEE can classify and symbolize shapefiles, integrate a wide array of image data, project on-the-fly shapefiles stored in decimal degree, and use data distributed over the Internet from ArcIMS services from the Geography Network, or other hosted ArcIMS sites.
Student Technology Showcase
As a joint effort of CDE, CTAP and CUE, the Student Technology Showcase serves to inform parents, teachers, administrators, legislators and higher education representatives about curriculum-based student technology projects being undertaken in Kindergarten through grade 12. Click here for more information.
Point Counter Point: How to Use (and Avoid Misusing) PowerPoint
Great for classes at OCDE. How to use powerpoint correctly. Can be taken back to the classroom.
"Looking Beyond Creativity to Cultivate Imagination
"The real question is how do we get kids to see learning as an adventure rather than a task? Play becomes the cornerstone of coping with change and turning fear into adventure." - John Seely Brown"