taccle2project

The Project GREAT aims to provide a methodology and a way to use Game-Based Learning in education and training. GREAT "Game-based Research in Education and Action Training" is an EU Leonardo da Vinci funded project (contract number 2011-1-PT1-LEO05-08600) that provides a methodology and a way to use game-based Learning (GBL) in teaching-learning processes by transferring innovative methodologies. It started in October 2011 and will last two years.

One of the major challenges facing ESA is to meet the very diverse educational needs of all our Member States. Supporting European teachers is a complex task, given the different national educational systems and languages. The European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) project is ESA's primary way to support the educational community.

Issuu is an online service that allows for realistic and customizable viewing of digitally uploaded material, such as portfolios, books, magazine issues, newspapers, and other print media. It integrates with social networking sites to promote uploaded material. While most of the documents are meant to be viewed online, some can be downloaded and saved as well. Uploaded print material is viewed through a web browser and is made to look like a printed publication with an animated page flip option.

nice idea here for creative and performing arts, I'm sure we can come up with a home-made version too!

AMSTERDAM - 17th April, 2012 - Parents are keeping tabs on their teens by accessing their Facebook accounts without their consent, AVG Technologies latest Digital Diaries study reveals. Digital Coming of Age, the fifth instalment of AVG's Digital Diaries study, features responses to AVG's questions to 4,400 parents with 14-17 year olds in 11 countries.

Space for Kids! ESA Kids features space news, information, games, animations and downloads for kids aged between 6 and 12. Kids will find colouring books, puzzles, quizzes, art galleries and downloads, as well as the latest space news.

Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard. Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. You can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. To get started, request an invite.

Photo tools, free images, etc.

Maths Experiencing is a Unesco resource for Maths learning

Vocaroo | Online voice recorder

Ultrasurf is a product of Ultrareach Internet Corporation. Originally created to help internet users in China find security and freedom online, Ultrasurf has now become one of the world's most popular anti-censorship, pro-privacy software, with millions of people using it to bypass internet censorship and protect their online privacy.

Koster, Sandra de (2009) Eerst onderwijsvisie dan techniek. Ict integreren in het basisonderwijs: beschrijving van het Cumulusproject. (Kennisnet Onderzoeksreeks Ict in het onderwijs, nr. 20). Zoetermeer: Kennisnet.

Teachers would be foolhardy to label parents as either good or bad.

Not all parents are created equal and cannot be categorized on a single spectrum.  To do so would jeopardize a teacher's ability to survive. Literally.  I mean, I'm talking life or death here.

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Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt's dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple interned in a World War II relocation camp to a discussion of a mass extinction that occurred on Earth 200 million years ago - all in seconds. Based on an idea from a University of California, Berkeley, student, ChronoZoom - essentially a zoomable timeline of timelines augmented with multimedia features -- is coming to life.

lots of ways to use web 2.0 in the classroom

biology ecology app for mobile

April 08, 2009 By Jennifer Williamson , Distance-Education.org Columnist | Home-schooling your kids? Check out these free online resources for parents and kids of all ages-including lesson plans, activities, educational online games, test prep, online high schools, forums and support groups.

In today's college classrooms the sound of furious note-scribbling has been replaced by clacking on keyboards and tapping on tablets. Thanks to the ubiquity of WiFi on campuses, it's not just note-taking that's been given a 21st-century update. Professors and students alike are constantly online

I've been following the work on Digital Literacy by Doug Belshaw for just over 2 years and I'm still getting my head round what it means to be digitally literate. Two years ago Doug published a post which really grabbed my interest in which he outlined his 8 elements of Digital Literacy as part of his thesis.

PDFVue is a new online application for annotating and editing PDF files online. It can open PDF files right in your browser without the need of special software. Using PDFVue you can fill PDF forms, add text, highlight text, add sticky notes, draw lines, add shapes, images, links and stamps. Edited PDF files can be saved to your computer or shared with others by forwarding a link. There is also browser add-on which can automatically open any PDF link you come across on PDFVue.