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By recognizing that the Golden Rule is fundamental to all world religions, the Charter for Compassion can inspire people to think differently about religion. This Charter is being created in a collaborative project by people from all over the world. It will be completed in 2009. Use this site to offer language you'd like to see included. Or inspire others by sharing your own story of compassion.

The growing 'place to be' in Second Life for Educators. Community of Jokaydia facilitates all sorts of learning interests and attracts may of the "A" list innovators and EduBloggers. Jokaydia is also assisting with the development of my "Second Classroom" project. Go visit! Like ISTE but different.

This handbook for PBL looks like a great resource

PBL best practices

Troubles in the Flatlands! Cautionary tale re: global, collaborative, hugely popular project and potential for copyright issues.

Brewing legal battle over a popular, collaborative online project

Interviews with teachers in US about PBL (including digital storytelling) and student engagement.

Judy's uber library literacy project

Questions abound about the inquiry-based teaching approach. Here are answers, from how to meet standards to how to keep control of the classroom.

from Free Technology for Teacehrs Digital storytelling guru Kevin Hodgson has recently launched a new website all about stopmotion movie creation. Kevin developed Making Stopmotion Movies as a how-to resource for teachers who are interested in having students create stopmotion movies. On Making Stopmotion Movies teachers will find downloadable storyboard and character development guides. Kevin provides an excellent outline of the whole movie making process. Visitors to Making Stopmotion Movies will also find video examples of real student productions. Below you will find one of the videos from Making Stopmotion Movies. Applications for EducationIf you've wanted to try a stopmotion or claymation movie project in your classroom, but you weren't sure how to get started, Making Stopmotion Movies should get you off on the right foot.

Structure of Financial Markets Primary vs. Secondary Markets, a primary market a borrower obtains funds from a lender by selling newly issued securities. Most companies use an investment bank, which will determine a price and then purchase th

When word of a natural disaster is spreading from somewhere in the world or announced on the news, students can use Google Earth to conduct an investigation of the disaster's effect.

Edutopia post includes highlights from recent webinar series featuring some outstanding PBL teachers