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Encyclopedia Virginia - 0 views

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Kate C on 28 Sep 11

AMAZING resource about Virginia history

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What Was There - 1 views

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Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - 0 views

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history photographs images library

shared by Rob Schupbach on 07 Sep 11 - Cached

Rob Schupbach on 07 Sep 11

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog in the Public Domain

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Rob Schupbach on 07 Sep 11

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog in the Public Domain. Great resource for putting together PowerPoints or other presentations!!

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Quality Homework - A Smart Idea - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Eighth-grade history students who relied on a spaced approach to learning had nearly double the retention rate of students who studied the same material in a consolidated unit, reported researchers from the University of California-San Diego in 2007.
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  So are learning and retention the same thing?
  
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Schools, the Internet, and Privacy | FunnyMonkey - 1 views

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- Caity D on 21 Sep 11
  
  This is such a great point, we have these strict safety guidelines in the schools, yet some students may be sharing every detail about their life on Facebook, Twitter or another social media.
  
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But the outcry against intrusions on privacy takes place against a backdrop where it's normal to share a steady stream of details about your life. My concern is that, if we make our schools into places where "normal" means having your browsing history tracked daily, people will take that level of supervision for granted.
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try to make some sense about what learning can be within a context where there is a growing tension between constructive guidance and overbearing observation
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Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - 0 views

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The internets library!

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The Historical Marker Database - 0 views

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Role Playing Game: Historical Jamestown! - 0 views

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Katie Danner on 26 Oct 11

In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. They settled in what is now the state of Virginia and called their colony first James Fort, and then James Towne, in honor of James I, the King of England.

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Personal Digital Learning Is Changing the World - 0 views

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Kelly Peterson-Chapman on 02 Nov 11

About a decade ago, the launch of Wikipedia was symbolic of an important threshold in human history -- anyone with a broadband connection could learn almost anything for free or cheap. This year inexpensive tablet computers and free resources like Khan Academy are extending the learning revolution.

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