How can you communicate this big message to your students and help them take risks in their learning? What does this mean in a concrete sense? There are at least three areas where teachers can help students learn to feel comfortable taking risks in their thinking: 1) The environment must support risk-taking in learning; 2) The curriculum needs to allow for some uncertainty and ambiguity about exactly what children will learn; and 3) Students need opportunities to learn forms of thinking that embody risk-taking and openness
"Free PDF of the Web-Based Portfolio series I've been working on for the past couple of months. I've taken the four blog posts and put them into this PDF that you can download and use if you would like."
cpanel add-in that improves on Fantastico - Here's a list of the apps it can install and update: Wordpress & Wordpress MU, Moodle, elgg (sometimes), Webcalendar, drupal, joomla, etc.
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"Based on the open source social networking script Elgg, we have added a whole host of plugins and enhancements that will hopefully make it the most feature packed and customisable place to start your own social network."
"Internet giant Google is out to expand its kingdom to the living room with an ambitious new service that lets people mesh television viewing with surfing the web."
"Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. "