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Great teachers help create great students, agreed? In fact, research shows that an inspiring and informed teacher is the single most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. So, what helps teachers become great? What equips them in helping students reach their highest potential?

CoFFEE is complemented by pedagogical scenarii - customisable lesson plans that are written by the projects researchers. These scenarii offer a good starting point for teachers who want to start using CoFFEE. They include both files that teachers can plug into CoFFEE to run a lesson plan, as well as a written step-by-step lesson plan instructing the teacher on all the relevant aspects of running a CoFFEE supported classroom activity.

Clickable, visual search engine for kids. Great for elementary research!

Watch, Learn, Research, Teach. That's pretty much the gist. This is our "View Only" Beta. You can't add nibs yet, but you can watch nibbed videos. (below) We launched Nibipedia to promote OLPC's Give One Get One Campaign. (www.laptop.org). Be sure to tell your friends that they can get the XO now and give one to a kid who needs it. We're working on more features and content in the background.

While learning at home offers great opportunities for working on your own time and schedule, it can also offer drawbacks when it comes to working with others or getting immediate help on a problem. Whether you need help, collaboration, or just want a little extra knowledge when completing your assignments, these web tools will help you find what you need. From note taking to researching to staying organized, the following resources will have you making top grades in your classes.

Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links.

Lifelong learners are constantly on the search for new information, and the Internet has made it even easier to track down authoritative journals, libraries and museums around the world, research centers, niche search engines, language tools, and other learners poking around online. This mega list of 100 free web tools and sites will grant you access to courses at Harvard Medical School and MIT, social media sites that connect you to bookworms, videos and podcasts about everything from medical news to politics, government resources, and a lot more. The best part? Everything is free, and there's no grading involved.

The purpose of this wiki is to explore the potential of Diigo in our classroom. Diigo is a social bookmarking web 2.0 tool that allows users to highlight, annotate, and share online articles. It's a great collaboration tool for research.

Stop copying and pasting... Start making your notes online. * Annotate the web With WebNotes you can highlight text and stick notes to web pages. Click for live annotation demo *Organize your notes - All highlights and notes are stored in folders within your WebNotes account. Click for screencast * Share your comments - Pages you annotate can be shared through email or online links. Click to view shared annotated page

If I were forced to choose an aspect of the internet that made it simply indispensable, it would definitely be its availability as a huge learning resource. 20 years ago, who would have thought that one would have easy access to already completed business documents, research papers of world class universities, free encyclopedias and some great books, no matter where he or she is located in the world.

Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

Virsonas are "Virtual Personas," created to Reason, Remember and React in the same way that a living, fictional or historical person would. You can create the "Virtual You" as a Personal Virsona™ or you can create and / or interact with one of our Community Virsonas. Interacting with our Community Virsonas opens up a world of possibility - you can actually talk directly to one of your heroes, conduct research or simply have FUN! You can also create Virsonas of departed loved ones, your pet(s), as well as for commonly shared experiences, for example; "The First Kiss."

ePEARL is a free, bilingual, web-based electronic portfolio software. Based on sound research evidence, coupled with feedback from the field, ePEARL has been designed to encourage self-regulation in learners within student-centred curricula.

The online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.

SMART Technologies' education site complete with Classroom solutions, Educator resources, Programs, News and Research, and Community.

Shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results. Clicking links in the article will trigger new Google searches, making it a very useful research tool.

Nice starter video for Diigo!

Video about Diigo- "Diigo is a research tool that rocks! Easy-to-use and so powerful... Check it out!

A teacher asked me to recommend a comic strip program that will allow the students to add a few sentences of text and have a number of panes. I hadn't looked at comic strip programs since last year, so I decided to see what I could find. Here is a summary of my research.

Diigo ~ more than a research tool - a knowledge sharing community. Easy-to-use and so powerful... Check it out!

Diigo intro video