eLECTIONS is a powerful online learning experience that demonstrates how broadband technology - with its capacity to deliver video, audio, excellent inter-activity, design and content - can support active, meaningful and memorable learning.
Tikatok™ is where kids channel their imagination into stories - and publish those stories into
books for you to share and treasure with friends and family.
Friends, colleagues, and groups can simultaneously create and collaborate on fun, interactive websites. First, quickly and easily pull in text, movies, photos, maps, and more from across the web. Then, mix and edit and see friends' changes in real time. You can create group scrapbooks, travelogues, club websites, party invitations, and interactive, multimedia personal blogs, or even chat with a full plate of multimedia tools.
This is more of a look and see what you can do with Google Earth and Screen capture software. Click the video to see how the museum uses this technology. Appropriate for Middle and High School.
Here is a great interactive site that walks students though what it would be like to be a C.S.I. lab technician. It is based on the CSI tv show. Students learn about the science behind different lab tests and then use virtual tools to evaluate evidence.
Illuminations is designed to:
* Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.
* Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
Illuminations is part of the prestigious Verizon Thinkfinity program.
The future. Not a time or a place. Simply put, the future stands for innovation in mathematics teaching. Problem-solving, communication, reasoning, connections.
The Web 2.0 Projects book contains nearly 60 projects using Web 2.0 tools, organised in age groups.
If you downloaded your copy of this booklet before 6 July 2008, please download it again, as it has now been revised. Thanks to Peggy George, who kindly pointed out some typos and formatting errors which had escaped my attention.
Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web (1st Ed) is a great introduction to Web 2.0 in education. This first edition was downloaded 60,000 times before I lost count!
Writers in today's market, whether they write fiction, news stories, blogs, or just for fun, are online during much of the day in search of ideas and gigs. Organizing job posts, favorite reference sites and new searches for various pieces can get overwhelming, even with the efficiency of the Internet. To help you stay more focused, organized and productive, we've compiled a list of 50 must-have Firefox extensions that all writers need to check out.
Welcome to Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement. This curriculum is designed to help you discover the power of social media for teaching media and information literacy, critical thinking, communication, collaboration and technology skills while developing students' understanding of the political, social and economic issues facing our country at election time.