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" For the past three years, Digital Wish has been studying the process of implementing one-computer-per-child programs in 28 schools. Digital Wish is an educational non-profit on a mission to bring technology to American classrooms in order to prepare students to thrive in the global economy. The team just completed a $1.125M Federal ARRA stimulus grant, delivering computers, weekly educator trainings, a complete IT curriculum, and support to the 28 schools.  Their trainers modeled the entire process of technology adoption and progressively reduced the initiative planning time from 18 months to just 6 weeks, saving schools tremendous amounts of time and money. Both teachers and students are reporting a wide range of gains including increased engagement in learning, technological proficiency, and dramatic improvements in the understanding of internet safety issues.  The 2011-2012 data report is attached. "

The notetaking member in Microsoft's suite is a cross-platform productivity application. There are many unique ways to use OneNote, and using it to change the way you teach or study could be the best one. Come aboard. OneNote has loads of tips for the teacher and the student. And before you forget - OneNote is free!

A great wiki chocked full of resources for literacy in education including:  Brain based learning, comprehension strategies & lessons, independent reading, lesson design, videos, word study, writing lessons, written response lessons, vocabulary and more!

" * Search the Berrien RESA VC Content Providers Database * TWICE Video Field Trip Streaming Samples * Berrien County Collaborative Curriculum and Videoconferences Grade Level Guides for Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts. * Favorite Field Trips by Berrien RESA * Quality Indicators of a Field Trip by TWICE Members. * Getting Started with Videoconferencing * Michigan Content Providers, International Content Providers, Speaker's Bureaus and more details."

The results of the report suggest that public school districts need to start training their teachers to teach digital media skills to K12 students, according to Hargittai and Don Knezek, chief executive officer of the International Society for Technology in Education. "In a case that an administrator says it's [knowing digital media skills] not important, that administrator is not looking at the world today and how youths [do research]", says Knezek, who calls the skills "new century literacies." The study is "an excellent indicator for pre-K12 education and a reality check for higher ed and postsecondary training.

This is an alphabetical list of websites for learning about all aspects of business - strategy, management, leadership, marketing, finance, accounting, economics, as well as business skills. It includes a range of sites suitable for both business studies education, workplace learning, and for educators, learners and managers alike. The sites include both formal and informal learning resources - games, podcasts, blogs, videos, books, PDFs, as well as online courses, communities and other general resources

An awesome list of Power Points for HS Social studies courses.

Anki is a program designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that information to optimally schedule review times. With a minimal amount of effort, you can greatly increase the amount of material you remember, making study more productive, and more fun.

This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections. Teaching with primary documents encourages a varied learning environment for teachers and students alike. Lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work become a gateway for research with historical records in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities.

Games in Education - a great list complete with resources for General, Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Business and Health (so far)

Whether you're into art theory, studying ancient art or making art yourself, you can find a range of online courses and lectures that can help educate you on your field of interest. Check out these open courseware resources to learn more, get fresh perspectives and expand your artistic horizons.

Expand the universe of your students' math knowledge with this collection of lessons and activities. Math texts don't usually dedicate very much coverage for fractals and graph theory, yet these topics are some of the most timely. Students need to see that mathematical study goes beyond Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry. Mathematics includes a wide range of investigations into topics that are utilized in the real world. These lessons should give students a basic understanding of these advanced concepts that they can carry with them to college.

If you are a teacher who cares about your students and would like to see them do better at math then the following information can help you. By combining your teaching skills with the latest e-learning technology you can give your students unprecedented learning and study support in math.

In L2Exchange, you can # SEEK help and DISCUSS problems with other language learners # BUILD and STUDY vocabularies using wordlists and pictures # CREATE your own blog and share your learning experience # STRENGHTEN your listening skills with video or audio subtitles

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.

Welcome to The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses.

Join us online regularly for a variety of educational programming through our Digital Learning Events. A virtual field trip can quickly transport your students to a national museum or even a dinosaur dig. Bring content experts into your classroom to enrich special units of study. Many of our events have opportunities for students to have live interaction with scientists and content experts.

Picturing Modern America (PMA) contains interactive exercises designed to: * Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920 * Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources, especially visual sources * Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory and other sources. Above all, we hope that you use PMA to encourage your students to actively read, question and discuss the photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century.

"Langalot is a collection of tools to help you learn a foreign language. Right now, you are using the dictionary. Langalot also contains tools to learn vocabulary, study sentences and phrases, and learn from the community. Langalot also provides the same audio programs used by the Foreign Service Institute (the U.S. State Department) for language learning. All of the audio programs are available in the language lab. "

Use the study of photography to explore with your students the power of images and their impact on history. In this lesson students learn about the history of American photography by selecting and  critiquing  photographs in an interactive and collaborative activity. The lesson also incorporates geographic literacy into the fine arts experience by challenging students to focus on the significance of the place, captured in time, that influenced events.