Praxis Commons

This educator's resource is designed to provide support for Junior, Intermediate, and Secondary Teachers who wish to integrate work on challenging socio-economic class bias into their teaching. Most of the activities and resources within this document hav

Use the set of tools below to help you construct exciting, engaging, meaningful, and memorable lessons for your students.

If you're new to Second Life or simply want to refresh yourself on the essentials, we've freshly published a Quickstart Guide PDF! Perfect for perusing and printing (to paper), this elegant, stylish doc will prime you on basic Second Life skills while making you smile in 7 pages.

"Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations"

As Ontario's learning object repository, the Ontario Educational Resource Bank (OERB) currently offers a growing number of online resources to teachers and students, from Kindergarten to Grade 12, at no cost. There are thousands of teacher-shared resources, including lesson plans, activities, maps, and interactive multimedia objects

Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

list is compiled from the contributions of 155 learning professionals (from both education and workplace learning) who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own personal learning/ productivity

Mix It Up at Lunch Day - to be held on November 13, 2008 - is a simple call to action: take a new seat in the cafeteria. By making the move, students can cross the lines of division, meet new people and make new friends.

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This is where I found a really fantastic track for an educational presentation. Check out "Phoenix" by the group "Ambient Teknology." click the album title (phoenix) and tracks appear on the right side. I chose "Goa life"

CultureSource.ca is the pre-eminent online cultural resource library for Canadian teachers. Conveniently located online, CultureSource.ca is a collection of approved arts, history and literature resources, ideal for including in lesson plans and in the classroom.

(via Rheingold) "Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It's hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we've chose

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Who is this document for? This educator's resource is designed to provide support for Junior, Intermediate, and Secondary Teachers who wish to integrate work on challenging socio-economic class bias into their teaching. Most of the activities and resource

teachers are the most important group driving adoption of these technologies in K-12 education.

The key point here is that we're talking not about a generation but about a level of understanding, and that understanding can be achieved, in my opinion, by anyone with an open mind, some imagination and access to the web, regardless of age or background.

An excellent selection of videos about classroom management.

I actually think these attitudes apply way beyond teaching and teachers. these are the attitudes I'd like to see the business world adopt.

Lots of other things to use for presenting these days beyond powerpoint. A good collection for students or teachers.