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Study Guides and Literature Essays by ClassicNotes™

Study guides are offered for free by GradeSaver on novels, plays, poems and films ranging from Animal Farm to Yonnondio: From the Thirties. Each study guide includes essays, an in-depth chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quiz. Study guides are available in PDF format. We have literature essays associated with our study guides that are unique and only available through GradeSaver. Each academic essay has been edited and approved by our editors. Many essays are "A" papers that have been written by students from Ivy League colleges.

Pop Tech Conferences

Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People


Pop!Tech is a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology and the future of ideas.

Teacher Vision

Creative Writing Teacher Resources (Grades K-12) - TeacherVision.com

Creative Writing Teacher Resources
Build solid creative writing skills with our extensive collection of printables, graphic organizers, and lessons plans. Encourage your students to demonstrate their creativity – and their writing skills – with our resources. You'll find poetry activities, short-story writing exercises, journal topics, printable worksheets, art projects, and more!

Flat Stanley

The Official Flat Stanley Project

In 1995, Dale Hubert, a Grade 3 teacher in London, Ontario, Canada, began the Flat Stanley Project. He invited other teachers to take part by hosting flat visitors and to encourage their students to write their own Flat Stanley journals.

One of the many advantages of sending flat visitors is that they can visit friends by travelling in an envelope. Students' written work goes to other places by conventional mail and e-mail. You can check out the Flat Stanley List of Participants to see where you can send a Flat Stanley or who might be sending a Flat Stanley to you, but the best way to arrange exchanges is through the Bulletin Board. After completing the Teacher Application form you'll receive a username and password that will allow you to login to the Bulletin Board.

PBS for Teachers

PBS Teachers — Resources For The Classroom

What’s an Activity Pack?
A growing library of theme-based widgets – each containing links to high-quality PBS resources and activities for multiple grade levels!

Learning Courses Free

Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Resources by Annenberg Media

Advancing
Excellent Teaching in American Schools

Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications
to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate
is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of
educational video programs with coordinated Web and print
materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.

Teacher Tube Video

TeacherTube - Teach the World | Teacher Videos | Lesson Plan Videos | Student Video Lessons | Online Teacher Made Videos | TeacherTube.com

After beta testing for almost two months,
TeacherTube officially launched on March 6, 2007. Our goal is to
provide an online community for sharing instructional videos.

Meet the new quizmaster

Apple - iTunes - What’s on iTunes? - iPod Games - iQuiz

Sure, you can play iQuiz for hours of fun. But you can also become the quizmaster by creating your own custom trivia packs, syncing them from iTunes to your iPod, then sharing them with others.

How the iPod can be used in the classroom

TeacherTube - iPods in the Classroom

iPods in the Classroom

College Lectures from the World's Top Scholars

Academic Earth

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education

WebQuest Home page

WebQuest.Org: Home

You've arrived at the most complete and current source of information about the WebQuest Model. Whether you're an education student new to the topic or an experienced teacher educator looking for materials, you'll find something here to meet your needs

Adobe - elearning

Adobe Rolls Out eLearning Suite : January 2009 : THE Journal

Adobe has debuted its new eLearning Suite, a system designed to facilitate courseware authoring, media editing, and the creation of other learning materials. The company has also launched Captivate 4, an upgrade to its eLearning content authoring tool.

Project Based Learning

Welcome | Edutopia

Edutopia's Project-Based Learning teaching module is designed for either a two- to three-hour class or session or a one- to two-day workshop, and is divided into two parts.

Studiyo Create quizes, etc - Excellent Learning tool FREE

Create Great-Looking Interactive Quizzes (in minutes) - embed in any website / blog!

MyStudiyo offers a rich solution for creating online quizzes. Make quizzes in just minutes and embed them in any website or invite players to your MyStudiyo Channel Page!
Got a large website?

Want to increase engagement and retention? MyStudiyo Premium allows you to add layers of new interactive quiz content, with customized skins, scoreboards and integrated recommendations. Contact us to find out more.

Create Educational Games and Activities

ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education

Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Free Online Learning - 700 Videos -Math

Khan Academy

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

We have 700+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan. He has also developed a free, adaptive math program available here.

To keep abreast of new videos as we add them, subscribe to the Khan Academy channel on YouTube.

The entire video library is shown below. Just click on a category or video title to start learning from the Khan Academy!

Write your own poem - Have it converted automatically to music

P22 Music Text Composition Generator ( A free online music utility)

The P22 Music Text Composition Generator allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file.

Magnetic White Board

PolyVision Debuts Bluetooth Interactive Whiteboard : January 2009 : THE Journal

PolyVision Debuts Bluetooth Interactive Whiteboard

by Dave Nagel

PolyVision has launched its new "eno," a new classroom technology designed to combine a traditional whiteboard and magnetic surface with Bluetooth-enabled interactive capabilities.

White Board update

Promethean To Launch Platform-Neutral Interactive Whiteboard Software : January 2009 : THE Journal

Ed tech developer Promethean said it will release a new interactive whiteboard software suite that's designed to work with any whiteboard brand and on multiple platforms, including Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. The software, called Activsoftware Inspire Edition, will debut next week at the 2009 FETC convention in Orlando, FL.

Activsoftware Inspire Edition combines Promethean's Activprimary and Activstudio suites and is designed to integrate with Activclassroom technologies, including Activote and Activexpression Learner Response Systems, according to the company. Some of the other features include:

* Option to upgrade for dual-input mode;
* Support for UI customization;
* Pre-packages media, including flipcharts, backgrounds, images, shapes and activities, available via Promethean Planet; and
* Support for integration with external media and software, including PowerPoint.

Promethean said Activsoftware Inspire Edition will be available in March. It will come in Personal and Professional editions. The professional edition will run $99 for new users but will be a free upgrade for existing customers or for new customers purchasing Activboards or Promethean Learner Response Systems.

SMART Boards for smart Teachers

Teachers Love SMART Boards

The goal of Teacher Online Training is to provide teachers with the best SMART Board training and resources available so they can utilize the SMART Board in the classroom more effectively.


Tons of resources, information, training and lessons for the SMART Board.  This is an excellent Blog.

Lectures Going the Way of the Blackboard

At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - NYTimes.com

The physics department has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning. Last fall, after years of experimentation and debate and resistance from students, who initially petitioned against it, the department made the change permanent. Already, attendance is up and the failure rate has dropped by more than 50 percent.

Scitable - the learning site

Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal combining high
quality educational articles authored by editors at NPG with
technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of
scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable
currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended
for college undergraduate faculty and students. Future plans involve
extension of Scitable to other fields within the life sciences, as well
as to other audiences.


Learn At Scitable

What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart

High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of
homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no
valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is
little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids
don't start school until age 7.

Yet by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the
smartest in the world. They earned some of the top scores by
15-year-old students who were tested in 57 countries. American teens
finished among the world's C students even as U.S. educators piled on
more homework, standards and rules. Finnish youth, like their U.S.
counterparts, also waste hours online. They dye their hair, love
sarcasm and listen to rap and heavy metal. But by ninth grade they're
way ahead in math, science and reading -- on track to keeping Finns
among the world's most productive workers.

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Going to School Online

When Janet Webber’s three youngest children head to school, they don’t meet up with the yellow buses rolling through their Cumming subdivision.

Instead Roni, the seventh-grader, spreads books across the kitchen table and logs onto the computer. Webber leads her other two children —- a first- and third-grader —- upstairs, to a sunny room with two desks, a laptop computer and bookcases filled with textbooks.

The three kids spend the next five hours or so completing lessons designed by the Georgia Virtual Academy. The online charter school started in 2007 and has quietly become one of the largest public schools in the state. It teaches about 4,400 elementary and middle school students from 163 of the state’s 180 school districts.

Internet-based: Georgia Virtual Academy

idea: Docs for Teachers

Google Docs uses Gears, an open source browser extension that enables web applications to run offline. When you aren't connected to the Internet, Google Docs uses information stored on your computer's hard drive rather than relying on information sent across the network. When you're offline, your edits are stored on your own computer until you re-connect, at which point your changes are synced with Google Docs' servers and made available to collaborators.

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