Westport Public Schools - ITL

"Project-Based Learning Professional Development Guide An overview of the Edutopia professional development guide for teaching how to use project-based learning in the classroom. By Edutopia Staff This guide is organized into six sections: Introduction Why Is PBL Important? What Is PBL About? How Does PBL Work? Workshop Activities Resources for PBL"

"The 12th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held on the National Mall between 9th and 14th Streets on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept. 23 from noon to 5:30 p.m., rain or shine. The event is free and open to the public. "

"Chip Kidd doesn't judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book -- and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.) Chip Kidd's book jacket designs spawned a revolution in the art of American book packaging. Full bio »"

"The following pages include tables that help school librarians learn how the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner and the Common Core Standards align. Lessons submitted as part of the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Lesson Plan Database contain an automatic crosswalk between AASL learning standards and the Common Core Standards."

"This issue explores how teachers can use primary sources to teach about the Civil War across disciplines."

"When you recognize a word's prefix, you can make a better guess at the meaning of a new word. Or as our new prefix video says, "Prefixes…It's like a remix, it changes things." By the end of this prefix lesson plan, students will be able to recognize the meanings of common prefixes, use the prefixes to determine meanings of words, and then play a prefixes game where they invent new words using prefixes. Prefix Lesson Plan"

" Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life. "

"Invisible Children, the organization behind the Kony 2012 campaign, spends less than 40 percent of its money on aid programs. Here are better ways for concerned students to help child soldiers in Africa."

getting permissions for video, music and media

"90% of users are the "audience", or lurkers. The people tend to read or observe, but don't actively contribute. 9% of users are "editors", sometimes modifying content or adding to an existing thread, but rarely create content from scratch. 1% of users are "creators", driving large amounts of the social group's activity. More often than not, these people are driving a vast percentage of the site's new content, threads, and activity."

"Teaching kids to be 'digital citizens' (not just 'digital natives')"

"On March 21, 1965, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators began a march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to protest discriminatory voting laws. The march came to weeks after "Bloody Sunday," when peaceful marchers in Selma were attacked by state and local police."

scan of voter registration form

"The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to World War I, including photographs, documents, newspapers, films, sheet music, and sound recordings. This guide compiles links to World War I resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, this guide provides links to external Web sites focusing on World War I and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers."

"Open. Connect. Share. Introducing media:scape - furniture and technology merged to help teams access and share information, to be more creative, innovative and effective when meeting with others. It's simple; just open, connect and share"

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