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"Neverwinter Nights" in the classroom: UMNnews: U of M.: "NWN has another, very important feature: it is sold along with a game-building toolset that allows users to modify the game, and BioWare encourages players to design their own versions of NWN using 'tilesets'-groups of images-which are available legally and online in databases set up by NWN fans around the world. This element of the game

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That may soon change if Amy Baylor can perfect the virtual professors she's working on. "Up until now, the personal computer's potential to be a valuable teaching and learning tool has been stymied by its 'soulless' nature," says Baylor, a professor of instructional systems at Florida State University's Research of Innovative Technologies for Learning (RITL). "We're using computers to simulate

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An Educational Voyage!: Sir, it is time for a real hard reality check for you and your administrators. Please show NYC teachers a floor plan of an honestly functional 'typical size' NYC classroom that has: 30-35 desks and chairs - arranged in cooperative groups (remember- larger children have larger furniture) A teacher's desk and chair A work space for an Educational Assistant. All adults

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The Education Arcade :: The Future of Videogames in Education: "The Education Arcade's 2005 Games in Education Conference was organized by MIT Comparative Media Studies, the MIT Teacher Education Program, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison with support from the Entertainment Software Association and E3Expo and sponsorship from LeapFrog Enterprises and BellSouth Corporation. Video archives

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Tall, Dark, and Mysterious » Dispatches from the library i don’t quite know what to do about the calculator problem: the strong students know when to use it to amplify their understanding, while the weaker students use it as a substitute for their lack of understanding. yet it’s exactly the weaker students who might need calculator skills later in life if they run across a real-world problem (oh,

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Slashdot | GLS Conference In Retrospect: Posted by Zonk on 01:49 PM -- Sunday July 03 2005 from the learning-is-fun dept. Late last month the Games Learning Society conference came to town in Madison, WI. The assembled big thinkers discussed many different aspects of gaming as it interacts with education, socialization, and main-stream culture. Terra Nova has a great big breakdown thread with

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Chalkboards With Brains: "Been using one for most of the last year... (Score:2, Insightful) by Kemanorel (127835) on 12:01 PM -- Saturday June 11 2005 (#12789108) I teach algebra in Orange County, CA, and have been using one of these for most of the last school year. My school has probably 85% of the classrooms equipped with these, with the remaining 15% due to get them early next year. I use

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What to do if your computer won't recognize a FireWire device: "In rare cases, a computer's built-in FireWire ports and third-party FireWire devices no longer work correctly. The computer may no longer recognize the device(s). Try these tips and tricks: Make sure the FireWire connector is aligned with the port before you insert it. Insert the FireWire connector straight and completely into

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Wired News: Boards Get Brains, Chalk Vanishes: "Third graders at Columbia University's elementary school may never know the painful sound of fingernails scratching on a chalkboard. That's because the dust-covered board that normally would be the focus of their classroom has been replaced by a giant, touch-sensitive computer screen. All across the country, chalkboards are being ditched in favor

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Software That Makes Learning Fun! Our policy is that registered versions of our software are completely free to teachers and schools. For students' home use, you are welcome to hand out the shareware versions of our programs or to have them download shareware versions at their homes. The shareware versions are the same as the registered versions, but have nag screens asking for purchase. To

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News from The Associated Press: "Residents in 72 counties were asked whether free-roaming cats - including any domestic cat that isn't under the owner's direct control or any cat without a collar - should be listed as an unprotected species. If listed as so, the cats could be hunted. La Crosse firefighter Mark Smith, 48, helped spearhead the cat-hunting proposal. He wants Wisconsin to declare

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Hacker Highschool - www.hackerhighschool.org: "The Hacker Highschool project is the development of license-free, security and privacy awareness teaching materials and back-end support for teachers of elementary, junior high, and high school students. Today's kids and teens are in a world with major communication and productivity channels open to them and they don't have the knowledge to

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Math help for U.S. kids may come from India : "The failure of some American students to master math is adding up to big bucks for tutoring companies in India. A little-known provision in the federal No Child Left Behind law allows federal taxpayer dollars to flow to online tutoring services thousands of miles and several times zones away in places like New Delhi and Calcutta. Those services

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EDUCAUSE REVIEW | September/October 2004, Volume 39, Number 5: "This last group of students, eight or so at a time, fire up their browsers and log into their cyberportfolios, a publication space that Principal Mario Asselin calls a “virtual extension of the classroom.”1 This virtual space is composed of three sets of weblogs, or blogs: a classroom Web space, where announcements are displayed and

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NationMaster.com, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease. We currently

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Number2.com is designed to provide students with a forum for following a self-directed program of study in all areas of the SAT (and GRE). The site offers a vocabulary builder, practice sessions complete with interactive feedback, and tutorial sessions in which the student is taught about basic techniques for answering various types of questions. Each student's course will be individualized, so

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The Rap Dictionary is the oldest and ultimate resource for looking up hip-hop slang. Wow... The Rap Dictionary went wik-wik-Wiki! This means that you can now edit virtually anything! Feel that itch to educate the masses? Feel that responsability of keeping the Rap Dictionary real? Welcome to the world of edutainment! Currently the Rap Dictionary consists of 1865 content pages. Learn about the

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[Free Educational Software GCompris]: "GCompris is an educational software which propose different activities to kids from 2 to 10. Some activities are game oriented, but always educational. You will find some activities in the following topics:   computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...   algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...   

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southerndave: Dogged: "One of my co-workers wandered into the office after lunch yesterday, just about laughing her head off. It took her about half an hour to explain what was so funny, but by the time she managed to tell the story the rest of us were cracking up as well. It's a corker. Seems she was driving back to work when she queued up at the give-way at one of the roundabouts in town

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MacCentral: Florida school district talks to Sting on iChat AV: "Music students of the Manatee School District in Bradenton, Florida talked to music legend Sting on Friday using Apple's iChat AV, an iSight camera and a PowerBook G4. Sting spoke to students from the Telewest Arena in Newcastle, England an hour before he was to perform a concert for his latest tour. Manatee School District

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September 2004 Archives: "If you have to give a poor grade to a student you know is going to object, put a lesser grade beside it on the paper and then scribble it out (but not so much that the student can't make it out). It will make them think that you originally gave them the lesser grade but then raised it after some thought. 99.9% percent of the time this will prevent them harassing you. "

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opensourceCMS.com: "This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to 'try out' some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs. The administrator username and password is given for every system and each system is

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Wired News: "It's not unusual for teachers and students to use an online environment like a chat room to meet. But Delwiche and a few other college professors are taking advantage of Second Life's fully three-dimensional virtual world and are the first to teach classes in a world where the students can fly, change body types at will and build fantastical structures that can float in the sky.

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Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy. Moodle is Open Source software, which

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About AIT: "The Agency for Instructional Technology has been a leader in educational technology since 1962. A nonprofit organization, AIT is one of the largest providers of instructional TV programs in North America. AIT is also a leading developer of other educational media, including online instruction CDs videodiscs instructional software AIT learning resources are used on six continents and

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Design By Numbers was created for visual designers and artists as an introduction to computational design. It is the result of a continuing endeavor by Professor John Maeda to teach the “idea” of computation to designers and artists. It is his belief that the quality of media art and design can only improve through establishing educational infrastructure in arts and technology schools that create

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Courseware: Hernando Barragán / Mauricio Giraldo. A multi-purpose courseware web engine based on php/html/mysql. It is based on previous courseware experiences done for classes at the MIT Media Lab, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and Processing workshops. Installation instructions This installation assumes you have a linux server with apache web server, php, and mysql database installed.

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Processing 1.0 _ALPHA_: "Processing is a programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities. It was created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook. The software is currently in a prerelease stage, but bug fixes are being made as we head toward a more complete '1.0' release.

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Techdirt:What Are Kids Using Wireless PDAs For?: "What Are Kids Using Wireless PDAs For? Contributed by Mike on Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 @ 01:37PM from the whooops dept. Ok, there really wasn't all that much to comment on concerning yet another article about kids in schools being given handheld computers and set up on a wireless network. Obviously, it's nice to hear that the program is going

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Apple Remote Desktop 2 'well worth the money' - Computerworld: "ARD 2 also offers a screen sharing option. This feature was present in version 1.2, but is worthy of mention again. This is not your standard screen share, where a sysadmin can show his screen to an end user. That existed before. What the ARD 2 screen share option allows is for the administrator to share someone else's screen with

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Slashdot : "Always Use Protection Posted by timothy on 03:30 PM -- Tuesday August 24 2004 Raymond Lodato writes 'Where do I begin? Oh yes! If you are a teenager who uses computers, or the parent or guardian of a teenager who does, buy Always Use Protection, by Dan Appleman! Let me take a little time to explain why.' Read on for the rest of Lodato's review. ISBN159059326X summary An excellent and

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Web Search Garage: "Principles of Internet Searching Onions. Salt Grains. Reinvented Wheels. What do they have to do with searching the Internet? The principles of Internet search will give you strategies to do your searching efficiently, no matter what search engine or other search resources you're using. Web Search Garage will teach you to: -- Narrow your searches to get a managable number of

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Searching The Internet Resources by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. SearchingTheInternet.info has been developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for Searching the Internet. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing

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Robotic Nation Evidence: "5.23.2004 Robots grading essay questions You would think that 'grading essay questions' is something that computers would not be doing anytime soon. Yet they are already doing it now. And students prefer robotic graders to human graders. Indiana Essays Being Graded by Computers From the article: Craig was one of 48,500 Indiana juniors gathering in high schools

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Animation Training: "Classic animation training would maximize the value of our investment in technology as it provides a cross-disciplinary curriculum that involves elements of writing, art, math, and science in a team-building environment. Solid animation training would provide the kids with a way to express themselves that they could have only imagined. Training in classic animation theory

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Italy school foils cheats by blocking phone signals Fri 18 June, 2004 16:47 ROME (Reuters) - Mobile phone-savvy teenagers tempted to cheat their way through exams by sending text messages or scanning pictures of tests could be thwarted by a device that jams signals inside the school walls. The Enrico Tosi Technical Institute school in

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Classroom Resources - free PowerPoint presentations and handouts from Patrick Crispen: "Since 1995, Patrick Crispen has been an invited speaker at numerous technology conferences around the country. The following are just a few of Patrick's most recent PowerPoint presentations which you are free to download and use provided that 1. You not make any money from these presentations, and 2.

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PalmInfocenter.com: Rio Grande School District Outfits Students With Handhelds: "The Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School District in Texas has more than 2,700 handheld computers in use in second through fifth grades. School administrators have found that the handhelds both motivate students and help them prepare for the state assessment exam. Now, with the addition of 1,000 Zire 71

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Slashdot | Fix a Troubled Mac: "Fix a Troubled Mac Posted by timothy on 03:00 PM -- Friday May 28 2004 rossetti writes with this review of Fix a Troubled Mac, v1.3. 'If you run a busy creative design business, you've encountered your fair share of Mac problems like failed tape backups, incorrect network settings, missing CD installers, flashing start-up disks. Macs are not as trouble free as one

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Slashdot | Teaching History In Schools With Video Games: "Teaching History In Schools With Video Games Posted by michael on Thursday May 27, @12:27PM from the history-written-by-the-winners dept. Joe writes 'There's a story about a Massachusetts company, Muzzy Lane Software, creating a Civ-style simulation computer game to teach history to high school and college students. 'Our view isn't that

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Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning: "Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding

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HotAIR - Unauthorized Teaching MaterialsWe believe that many teaching materials are good at killing students' curiosity. Here are some alternatives. We invite you to contribute others. These materials can, perhaps, seduce students (lots of other people) into being curious about science (and about everything else). The materials are grouped into the following sections: * The AIR Teachers

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Slashdot | Making Science and Math Kid Friendly?: "Posted by Cliff on 02:42 PM -- Saturday April 17 2004 from the improving-education dept. mtspim asks: 'I work for a non-profit organization that creates interactive math and science curriculum materials for kids and their instructors. Even though we have seen kids learn difficult topic more easily by using a computational approach to learning,

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Educational Simulations Products: "Educational Simulations presents Real Lives 2004, the life simulation that gives you the opportunity to learn how people really live in other countries. Real Lives 2004 is a truly unique, content rich and empathy-building real world, real life simulation that challenges your life skills (not your hand-eye coordination) as you make difficult, high-stakes choices

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Current Chaos Manor mail: "Hi. It's not clear from the site but Lucas Learning was shut down a about a year or so ago. My wife was an instructional designer there. She was really excited by the mission of the company. But it turned out to be a little too much like a lot of dot coms here in northern CA. Visionary leader, dedicated staff, and horrendous middle management. Still, there is a lot of

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Commentary, March 5, 2004 :Back in April, we heard from Susan Kawa and featured her here on the page. She now informs us of the developments in a project she's involved in, one that the JREF applauds: I mentioned to you at TAM2 that while all-out activism is important to some, that I'd taken a gentler tack with skepticism — by volunteering to write grants for my kids' (public) elementary school

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International Space Settlement Design Competition: "WELCOME to the Eleventh Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition! This event is an industry simulation set in the future. Teams of High School students prepare designs for cities in space where over 10,000 people will live. The Competition is an exercise of creativity, technical competence, management skills, environmental

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Readability.info: Readability Scores, Grades, Sentences, Paragraphs, Word Usage, English Usage and Grammar Analysis for Web pages and Microsoft Word documents in a flash!: "Curious about how complex your documents or Web pages are to read? You don't have to get a team of experts to generate your readability score: you can just use readability.info to analyze the characteristics of your writing

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Slashdot | Bugscopes In The Classroom: "Bugscopes In The Classroom Education Technology/IT Science News Posted by timothy on 01:36 PM -- Saturday March 20 2004 from the skynet-was-remote-controlled dept. jnagro writes 'A group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have a number of interesting projects which allow K-12

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The ProScope - Order Online: "The ProScope USB 50X Imaging Kit Light weight yet tough and easy enough to use by a first grader or an FBI agent, The ProScope comes with the 50X lens and is perfect for a wide variety of uses from science education, crime scene investigation, industrial inspection and more. $229.00 "

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Slashdot | DIY Computer Video Microscopy For Under $50: "DIY Computer Video Microscopy For Under $50 Hardware Posted by timothy on 12:35 PM -- Sunday April 21 2002 from the find-out-what-infests-your-house dept. cybrpnk writes: 'The QX3 Video Microscope may have been an obscure commercial failure as an educational toy, but it is widely available (for now, at least) as a fantastic tool/toy for any

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Slashdot | Advanced DIY Science for Students?: "Advanced DIY Science for Students? Education Posted by Cliff on 06:20 AM -- Monday October 21 2002 from the keeping-them-fascinated dept. Adam Wise asks: 'I'm a high school senior planning a career in science, and I don't have any plans for the summer. I'd like to put these two facts together to entertaining and educational results of the

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Mike's List: ISSUE 72 * OCTOBER 9, 2003: "As a teacher I wholeheartedly agree that more technology is not necessarily better. The problem seems to be large number of computers in rooms with teachers who do not know how to utilize the technology. If teachers were trained in the integration of the technology into the learning environment students would be much more prepared. Many computers are

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Wizard of the New Wordsmiths: "George Miller is still not sure what he was thinking when he set out to write his own dictionary. By his own definition he was mad (meaning 'brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged - affected with madness or insanity'). Nearly two decades ago, the Princeton University psychology professor needed a decent computerized dictionary

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WordNet: "WordNet� is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. WordNet was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University

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Current Chaos Manor mail: Subject: The rediscovery of phonics Jerry The reference to scientists proposing a cure for dyslexia http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1000267,00.html By rediscovering old methods got me to thinking. For one thing, this is what Roberta did for years, and she was able to teach almost every one of her dyslexic criminal children to read. The alphabet is a

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Ed-X: Online Education and Distance Learning Search Engine: "Ed-X.Com is a search engine and web resource for distance learning and online education with comprehensive information on over 20,000 online courses and degree programs from 700 online colleges worldwide. Use the Ed-X online education index below to locate online college courses or distance learning certificate and degree programs"

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Times Online - Health: " Health news February 13, 2004 American Association for the Advancement of Science conference Scientists propose cure for dyslexia CHILDREN with dyslexia need not be doomed to a life of reading difficulties, even though there is generally a genetic component to the disorder, scientists said yesterday. New research in the United States has suggested that the brains of

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Bush Space Policy Responses: "Some would argue that the money would be better spent on education. That by adding the $11 billion planned for this new initiative to the $600 billion US department of Education budget over the same time would solve all the problems with the educational system. How about the story of Homer H. Hickam, Jr, a boy growing up in Coalwood West Virginia in the late 1950's.

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Google Guide: Interactive Tutorial Making Search Even Easier: "What Google Guide Teaches You In this tutorial, you'll learn * How to select terms and search (more) effectively * How Google interprets your query * How Google works * What information and links may be included with your results * How to search using Google's special tools and shortcuts * What's new in

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Mike S. Adams: Welcome to Civility 101 January 5, 2004 Dear Students: Welcome back! I hope you had a good Christmas break (or Kwanzaa break, or whatever you celebrate). Mine was great but now it’s time to get back to work as we kick off a new semester. Those of you who have had my classes before need to pay close attention to this memo because I am changing some of my class policies this

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Stagecast Product Overview: Stagecast's products allow children and adults to build their own simulations and games and to publish their creations in a Web page. The basics of creating an application are quite simple: kids create objects, animate them and make them interact. The objects can be made to do different things depending on what objects are around them, as well as depending on

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: "Alice address both the mechanical and sociological barriers that currently prevent many students from successfully learning to program a computer. Alice addresses the mechanical barriers to programming by making it much easier for students to create programs. Rather than having to correctly type commands according to obscure rules of syntax, students drag-and-drop words in a direct

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Arm from a cadaver too 'gross' for some: Thursday, January 08, 2004 By Jane Elizabeth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette It's fair to say that both doctors showcased at a Fox Chapel elementary school on Tuesday made an impression. In one case, it was just a little more lasting. The oil painting "The Gross Clinic" by Thomas Eakins, depicting a 19th-century medical school lesson. . Dr. Seuss was the

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USATODAY.com - Webcams keep suspended students on track: "Cameras record every minute of Beverly Pearson's day as a high school English teacher. When she strides to the blackboard, a lens swivels to track her movements. A microphone captures each word. It's all piped electronically to a nearby building at Coffeeville High School where students stuck in suspension can follow Pearson's lesson on

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Which advantages do balloon molecules have? - visually impressive molecule models - they can be used in various ways and situations - low price - easy to learn - available any time due to your own work - learning with fun - easy, flexible, big models The origin of balloon molecules Modelling balloons are known first of all as a toy or in form of balloon sculptures. But there are other

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Partnership for 21st Century Skills - About Us: "The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a unique public-private organization formed to define and incorporate into learning the skills that are necessary for every student's success in the 21st Century. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills brings together educators, administrators, parents, businesses, and community leaders to determine how

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TimesDispatch.com | Laptop study in Henrico raises concerns: "Laptop study in Henrico raises concerns Some parents say they fear reprisals if they criticize the plan; others allege conflict BY NICOLE JOHNSON TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Dec 20, 2003 Concerns about confidentiality and a potential conflict of interest are among the issues surrounding a study of Henrico's iBook program. SRI

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The Globe and Mail: "Magnatune, a small record label in Berkeley, Calif., thinks it has found the answer. It's letting everyone steal its music. The label, which offers a variety of genres from chamber music to techno, lets Internet users preview every song from every album from every artist it offers, on its website (http://www.magatune.com). Many of the acts are relatively obscure, but some,

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Center for Children & Technology At EDC's Center for Children and Technology, we investigate the roles that technology can play in improving teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom. We also design and develop technology applications that support engaged, active learning in formal and informal settings. Our investigations cover a broad range of activities. We evaluate educational

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Dell K-12 Professional Development Courses: "Make the most of your technology investment, and continually improve the educational experience. Professional development offerings enhance existing skills and develop new skills in teachers and administrators. Dell Offers K-12 Professional Development Programs for Educators, Administrators, and Academic Executives to support nationwide efforts to

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Futurekids Home Page FUTUREKIDS was founded in 1983 with the express purpose of equipping children with the basic computer skills needed to excel in school and in the workplace. In 1989, after testing and refining our Computer Mastery Program, FUTUREKIDS began the process of creating a worldwide network of computer Learning Centers. To date, FUTUREKIDS has operations in over 70 countries and

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Welcome to Froguts! - Virtual Dissection Software

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techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning - The Resource for Education Technology Leaders: "techLEARNING.com is produced by Technology & Learning Magazine, with contributions from hundreds of K-12 teachers, administrators & other experts in the field." This is a very good resource

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The Vinny Awards : "Combine skills in research and writing with teamwork and creativity to win prizes and recognition. Named after Leonardo da Vinci, the VinnyTM is an award for the best one-minute videos explaining how Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics can help solve common global problems. The VinnyTM Awards is a contest to produce a one minute video that explains how Science,

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About Us: "The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit operating foundation that documents and disseminates models of the most innovative practices in our nation's K-12 schools. We serve this mission through the creation of media -- from films, books, and newsletters, to CD-ROMs and DVDs. Our Web site contains all of our multimedia content published since 1997. What is '

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