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Thoughts and ideas shared on how to build and strengthen a PLN.

Digital library of theses and dissertations.

The interactive reading games below are ideal for developing the reading skills of your pupils. Use the reading games on your interactive whiteboard, or computer, at school or at home. Please register if you intend to use these games. The games below are listed by word level and sentence level activities. To find a game quickly please use the 'quick game finder'.

These comments are from an educator survey asking what is the most challenging part of integrating technology into the classroom.

These 16 apps work well with iPad and provides method to display via projector. Each app has a cost.

Listed below are a variety of graphic organizers that can be used with students in accelerating, acquiring or extending/refining learning. These tools should be used to help students engage in rigorous thinking, organize complex ideas, and scaffold their interactions with texts.

Flash games and tools for teachers. The random name-picker alone makes this site a winner. Graphic organizers and custom quizzes put it over the top. [via Vicki Davis] NOTE: These activities alone will not encourage higher order thinking

Online publishing resources recommended and used by educators. These are just another way to publish/share documents online.

Create timelines with one of these 10 options.

Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change: The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. Our understanding of what constitutes "a new culture of learning" is based on several basic assumptions about the world and how learning occurs:

Kids can learn about English, Current Events, American History and more by listening to these video raps. 

"From government to non-profit organizations, teachers to textbook publishers, we all have a role to play in leveraging 21st century technology to expand learning and better serve California's students, parents, teachers and schools. This initiative will ensure our schools know which digital textbooks stand up to California's academic content standards - so these cost-effective resources can be used in our schools to help ensure each and every student has access to a world-class education." - Governor Schwarzenegger

It is a free service that allows you to visually capture any part of a web page. As you collect items that you captured, you organize them in boxes. You can then share these items or boxes with friends, colleagues, ... the world. The result is: efficient and visual collaboration around content. We call it: "Content Networking".

Now you can view inspirational movie clips from many of your favorite films. These WingClips™ can also be downloaded to use in your church, school or other non-profit organization for FREE.

The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative. Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared. As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.

" Welcome to the e-gadget factory Welcome to the e-gadget factory shop. We sell interactive whiteboard activities called e-gadgets in topic packs that keep the cost at a very low level. These are available as downloads in Smart Notebook format, in Promethean Flipcharts or through an online subscription that will work with any whiteboard."

These 5 provided a wealth of excellent resources for educators to use in assisting with getting organized. 

Learning and using words to build vocabulary can be accomplished using 1 of these 50 online sites.

6 Tips to making the perfect screencast.

Several of these 15 free collaboration websites are rather interesting and new to me.