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The Global Digital Citizen Foundation works to teach and facilitate good technology uses to students.

WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Free online textbooks and other instructional materials!!!

CK-12 Foundation provides a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications for over 5000 concepts from arithmetic to history

Effective communication is essential for building school-family partnerships. It constitutes the foundation for all other forms of family involvement in education.

This article explains some benefits of good parent-teacher relationships and gives some examples of ways to build this type of relationship. This would be good to look at when creating my own classroom.

Children's Poetry includes several featurues that make it ideally suited for teaching phonemic awareness, word recognition, and reading fluency. -children's poems are short and easy to learn -Poems Play with the Sounds of Language -Poems Make Phonics more engaging Poems can range from simple to complex.

The dozens of excellent assets presented here are organized into seven well structured categories, as follows: What is Blended Learning? Site visits and Case Studies Digital Systems and Digital Content Staffing Cost Hardware and Infrastructure Blended Learning Blogs

Project-Based Learning

I feel that this is a great resource for Project Based Learning because Edutopia does a wonderful job of explaining what PBL is, how it came about, and how successful PBL can be in the classroom.

Edutopia is a great site in general and provides an abundance of valid sources the teacher can use to educate themselves on PBL.

This source gives a guide and video on how people all over the world are one big community online, and how everyone can and should act responsible online.

This is a good video to introduce the idea and foundation of the ISTE Standards.

We, a young, dynamic and public-spirited team of activists at Happiness Ville, are constantly brainstorming ideas and ways to bring about the change we always talk about and hardly put into action. Our aim is to eradicate the 'mal' out of malnutrition, 'ill' out of the illiteracy, 'in' out of the injustice and the 'issues' out of the environment.