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Through same day loans, you will never have any trouble sorting out monetary issues that come up all of a sudden. The loans are made available to almost all the applicants and the best possible way to derive the loans would be to apply online.

Often we search for meaningful ways to integrate digital technology in project based learning activities given to our students. We also would like our students to develop a thorough understanding of the concepts underlying the work - after all this is the purpose of the project. Giving students the opportunity to complete and present their project through a digital lens has one great advantage - student engagement. This in turn causes students to develop a more in depth understanding of concepts.

The Flip camera is great for all types of projects in science and math - at any grade level. Flip cameras are small handheld video cameras that can record 30 or 60 minutes worth of video. They connect to a computer with a USB plug that "flips" out from the side of the camera. The benefits of these cameras include another means for assessing students understanding of concepts beyond worksheets and tests. Besides a teacher's record, the videos provide a digital record for parents and administrators to show a student's successes or areas which need improvement.

Bottom line the assessments need to be a tool to measure learning and growth and not as a way that set students up for failure. Assessments need to be used by the teacher as well as the student to guide student learning. Assessments are a tool and   not an end to themselves

Looking for a way to get your students more engaged? Mixbook is proud to present Mixbook for Educators, a program that allows educators even easier access to the most powerful suite of digital storytelling tools on the web. Check out the stories below to hear how Mixbook can help YOU.

"Yet, at the very moment that the bond is breaking between the young and the natural world, a growing body of research links our mental, physical, and spiritual health directly to our association with nature-in positive ways."

Spacehack a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interact + connect with the space community.

The perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page.

The school's approach to reengaging students in learning has an important twist: Downtown's curriculum is entirely project based. Its alternative format allows students to choose a thematic, integrated pathway of subjects each semester, find connections among these subjects in real-world settings, and, hopefully, discover their passions along the way.

This looks like an interesting way to measure 21st century and PBL skills.

K-4 eBoard - a great example of using a cognative message board for school ICT - a great simple way of delivering engaging content.

DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories. - cool visual search tool in the Wordle school of fun.

Great site to show students multiple sites to use and why. Great for organizing multiple websites that students should use as a resource.

A tool to help show people multiple websites and way these websites are useful.

FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES Financial Intermediaries, The informal arrangements that were the mainstay of the financial system centuries ago have since given way to the formal financial instruments of the modern world Today, the international financial system exists to facilitate the design, sale, and exchange of a broad set of contracts with a very

Earth Day is around the corner - April 22nd - and every year teachers and students try to come up with new and innovative activities. Recycling is a popular activity to keep the idea recycling going strong. Classrooms often come up with ideas to recycle paper, ink cartridges, plastic bottles, metal cans, and newspapers. However, there are other recycling activities that students can get involved in to support Earth Day.

Critical Literacy. Information Literacy. Digital Literacy. 21st Century Skills. Technology Literacy. Media Literacy. Computer Literacy.This is just a small sampling of different, but often overlapping, "literacies" that have shown up in the educational literature in the last few decades. Massive and relatively sudden changes in the way people communicate with each other and share information have been one of the main drivers of this parallel explosion in "literacies."

Wikispaces adds a new feature called Projects. Intended to help teachers and student teams manage project work.

The state guides developed by authors from the Federal Writers' Project - a WPA group that came to be during the depression - are fascinating snapshots of the country as it was in the early part of the 20th century. They contain quite a lot of history and local stories and can be a wonderful way to compare the regions with how they currently are.

Strategy Tutor is a web-based tool designed to support students (esp. middle school level) and teachers doing reading and research on the internet. Strategy Tutor helps students read, research, collect and understand information better and more efficiently. For teachers, Strategy Tutor provides a way to easily create web-based lessons embedded with research-based, highly effective learning strategy and vocabulary supports