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A listing of all web sites we have recommended from all our Issues
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http://www.tatyanasfromrussiawithlove.wikispaces.com
Tatyana Sukhotinskaya is a recent immigrant to Elkhart County,
Indiana. In this wiki she is relating many stories about her
life back in Russia and now here in the United States. It’s a
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http://www.stephaniepacemarshall.com/books.html The Website of author Stephanie Pace Marshall
This is the first time we have featured an author's web site rather than
highlighting his or her book. There's a very valid reason in this case.
Stephanie Pace Marshall exudes a vision, a spirit, and the power in her
writing that is unexcelled in stating the critical need for educational
transformation. Her biography is audacious, but even more her writing
will compel any reader to take up the flag and march, not for better
schools as presently constituted, but for dramatic change, change that
can lead our children into a better world. I urge every reader of this
eZine to read Dr. Marshall's message. You will be changed forever! -- ED |
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http://www.standup.org/ From the STANDUP COALITION |
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http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html |
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http://www.podcastercentral.com/ |
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http://www.terry-freedman.org.uk/db/web2/ A cooperative group led by Terry Freedman authored booklet Coming of Age for teachers wanting to use some of the new Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. Download it as .pdf from the site. |
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http://www.daggett.com/ |
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http://www.learningpt.org/page.php?pageID=138 |
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http://www.educationrevolution.org/ |
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Research Channel offers continuing reports on the latest research on many societal areas. The site features thousands of streamed video presentations. Stanford University is the sponsor. |
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www.wested.org/online_pubs/rd-05-03.pdf An online report from
WestEd about Early Childhood opportunities for advancing education.
(From the Early Childhood Foundation for Lifelong Learning.) For a
multitude of free online publications, use the following link:
http://www.wested.org/cs/we/query/q/1379 |
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http://www.thinkquest.org/ Sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation, the competition offers a unique project-based learning experience to students and teachers around the world. Globally relevant subjects and diverse teams are encouraged |
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Start your search for education resources here!LEARN NC gives you what you need for K–12 teaching and learning, when and where you need it — from lesson plans and teaching strategies to student research to online courses for teachers and students. What can you do with LEARN NC? |
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http://www.nathanbrickartist.com/ The Art of the Brick Nathan Sawaya is a fantastic artist who works entirely with Legos. Check out his products on his web site! |
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www.enchantedlearning.com/Spanish/ Enchanted Learning is a great site especially to help children learn a new language. We have emphasized Spanish because of the exploding numbers of Hispanic children entering our schools, but other languages are featured as well. There is a small fee for membership. |
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http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html This one should be a real help for homework that requires some digging into literature resources and global perspectives. |
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November Learning,
http://novemberlearning.com and
http://nlcommunities.com/communities/alannovember/default.aspx |
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http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/ The Blogspot |
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The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational
Innovation, North Carolina State University:
http://www.ncsu.edu/friday/about/index.html
http://main.edc.org/theme/schools.asp
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Take a break! Check this out, particularly if you have broadband: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html The Molecular Expressions web site from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University. Aside from the dramatic zooms into and out from our visible dimensions world, this site features sensational photomicrographs of all sorts of things! |
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News story on games as education/training tools, Washington POST, Odt. 31, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000578_pf.html |
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Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 22, 2005 |
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A Force More Powerful http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/game/ is a game of nonviolent strategy to overthrow corrupt regimes. |
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America's Army has lots of games to play. http://www.3dgamers.com/games/americasarmy/ |
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Incident Commander http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/ics/inci.html is used to help train emergency response personnel. |
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LearningWiki with other digital resources for
learning at:
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Internet 2 (www.internet2.edu/)
is a high performance operation established for college and university
research but now available for K-12 schools as well. For example, the
Library of Congress has become a member and is connecting to Internet2's
Abilene Network. LOB is
The Masie Center, (www.masie.com/) headed by training guru Elliott Masie, is one of the nation's major corporate training operations, holding several large conferences a year. For those not able to attend, however, Masie furnishes an e mailed newsletter TechLearn Trends filled with new perspectives related to distance learning and ideas for the future of education Placeware is now a division of Microsoft. Its program is called Live Meeting. (http://livemeeting.viewcentral.com/) Placeware transmits regular Webcasts featuring nationally renowned specialists dealing with such problems as leadership and globalization. More than 100 sessions are archived and can be reached through its web site. To quote from its Web site, -Tom Peters Company (www.tompeters.com) is dedicated to Tom's vision of the new world in which we live and based on his latest book, Re-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age. Organizations that are committed to make a difference understand they must continually re-imagine and re-invent what's possible - and to quickly and powerfully deliver on that possibility.- The ideas Tom promotes are valuable for every human being to consider as they reflect upon their own lives. |
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www.takingitglobal.org
TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with
inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues,
opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally,
nationally and globally. This Canadian site offers a tremendous opportunity to link students to others around the world! Think of going from pen pals to web pals with purpose!-- ED www.tiged.org TIGed is a new tool from TakingITGlobal (TIG) that allows students to learn about social issues and express themselves in a setting controlled by teachers and focused on the effective use of technology in the classroom. Using TIGed, teachers can create virtual classrooms in which they can post assignments (or choose from assignments designed by TIG staff or other teachers,) start and track student discussions, and even maintain an online art gallery. Teachers can also discuss and collaborate within their schools, or with other teachers from around the world on through TIGed. TIGed takes TIG to the next step, providing teachers with resources to organize their classes and to motivate their students with units involving communities world wide. -- ED www.icdlbooks.org The mission of the International Children's Digital Library is to select, collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old.
One World Journeys,
www.oneworldjourneys.com This is a
fantastic site filled with extraordinary photos and stories of locations
around the world. Many are located within the U. S. and give evidence to
the great diversity found within our own country. -- ED |
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www.nationalgeographic.com/education/ For more than a hundred years, the National Geographic Society has pursued its mission to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge. The Society has made a special effort to support this goal by establishing the Education & Children's Programs department, which works to motivate and enable each new generation to become geographically literate. The National Geographical Society is the world's preeminent organization pursuing the goal of providing information and conducting research related to the world's geographic conditions. Here we have a sub site devoted to education, a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about our world. -- ED Cultures On The Edge is an online magazine published quarterly by a team of experienced web entrepreneurs, along with world-renown author Wade Davis and professional photographer Chris Rainier. Together we have molded our skills to present a dynamic online magazine that hopes to support cultural diversity through education. www.culturesontheedge.com Cultures on the Edge offers beautiful examples about the diversity of the human condition in places many would consider the remotest parts of the earth. Yet, as we see how different various cultures are, we can also see the oneness of humanity shine through. - ED |
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United Streaming,
www.unitedstreaming.com , a division of Discovery Education, has the
largest data base of video clips and photos in the country. Check out
whether it or a similar system is available in your children's school. Love Free Games http://lovefreegames.com includes many educationally oriented games. Check 'em out, have fun, and strengthen your mental processes, all at the same time! Many predict that game theory will be come the next big wave for educating youth in higher level thinking skills.
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Achieve! ezine: http://www.polishyourwriting.com is a ezine for writers and communicators. Their current issue (September) has a good article, not on learning to write, but writing to learn!
The Pew Hispanic Center,
http://pewhispanic.org chronicles the experiences of the growing Hispanic
presence in America. Excellent
statistical reports and survey results (look for "Hispanics: A People
in Motion" ) may be downloaded from their
site. The Pew Hispanic Center is a project of the Pew Research Center, a
nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes
and trends shaping America and the world. It is supported by The Pew
Charitable Trusts. Ode Magazine,
http://odemagazine.com :
-You're a genius- How do I
become a genius?
Hispanic Education Action Plan,
http://hinojosa.house.gov : |
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The Center for Innovation in Engineering
and Science Education Mission: To catalyze and support excellence in teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and other core subjects through innovative, research-based instructional strategies and use of novel technologies. CIESE collaborates with K-12 and university educators, researchers, policymakers and educational organizations to develop curriculum materials, conduct professional development programs, and research new methodologies to strengthen STEM education. The following link is a directory listing of many experts that you may access. http://www.k12science.org/askanexpert.html http://www.digonsite.com/drdig/index.html (ask Dr. Dig) Our Dr. Dig is Dr. Joyce Tyldesley, a well-known Egyptologist and author of numerous books, including Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh, Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen, Hatchepsut: the Female Pharaoh, Judgement of the Pharaoh: Crime and Punishment in Ancient Egypt, and The Private Lives of the Pharaohs. Dr. Dig's latest book is Tales from Ancient Egypt, in which she retells some of the most important myths, folk-tales, and autobiographies preserved on papyrus and carved in stone. She holds a Ph.D. from Oxford and is an honorary research associate at Liverpool.
http://www.fliegler.com/mathman.htm
The Online Math Tutor will
try to get your answer back within 24 hours! |
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One Laptop Per Child: Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder of the Media
Lab at MIT has a vision of developing a hand-powered (by crank) laptop for
$100 and having it available for every child in the world! Crazy? Perhaps,
but possible. So much so that the state of Massachusetts has budgeted for
just such a scenario. Check this out. These folks may be dreamers, but
their dreams are not out of the realm of reality. Sorry folks. They're not
going to be sold commercially.
http://laptop.media.mit.edu International Consortium for Brain Mapping: The October 24, 2005, issue of Time includes a story with the headline "Getting Inside Your Head". It describes a new development in neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). It displays- not only the structure of the brain but also how it actually functions, by measuring blood flow. The article goes on "In the scans, specific areas of the brain light up as various mental processes occur." Think of the potential for finding out how we learn, how various functions can assist learning and remembering, and how individuals both differ and are similar in learning characteristics. http://www.loni.ucla.edu/ICBM/ Apple iPod with video:
Talk about hype! Steve Jobs did a terrific job (no
pun intended) promoting the introduction of the
iPod with video. Of course, most of it centered
around its entertainment capabilities. Ok,
that will sell the gadget. But let's not forget the possibilities for
education. More and more we're becoming a mobile society as far as
communications is concerned. Video will be as much a part of that as
audio. The iPod will be one more tool added
to our inventory. Think of the dimensions we're quite literally going to
have at our fingertips! Podcasting: Developed from a variation of iPOD, podcasting is becoming a major communications phenom. The flexibility of this radio-like programming can go anywhere, do anything audio, and at any time. The best feature is not in the reception ability. That's been around since audio taping. It's the tremendous interest that has sprung up in using the technology for simple productions, needing no major studio facilities, that places audio recording and storage in the hands of just about anyone. Record a class report, send it to your instructor or classmates. Receive instructor information any time. Why, even parents can receive reports from school so their kids won't have to be asked, "What did you do in school today?" Breakthrough! http://www.podcasting-tools.com/ |
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The Louvre: Recognized by many as the world's most renowned museum of art, This web site is truly remarkable. http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en
The Smithsonian Institute in Washington is a collection of some 16 museums dealing with hosts of subjects. This Web site is a remarkable review of what is available both in the museums and for uses around the world. http://www.smithsonian.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York houses some of the greatest works of art created over the past 10,000 years. http://www.metmuseum.org/
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles is one of our nation's most recently constructed museums. Its construction was funded entirely by the J. Paul Getty Foundation. http://www.getty.edu/ |
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http://www.elob.org/
Expeditionary Learning offers an exemplary on-going program for
professional development on a school-by-school basis. It takes a major
commitment by school and district administrators as well as teachers. But
the results can be well worth the effort. The following is quoted from its
Web site:
Watching America:
http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml "O wad some Power the
giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us!" That may be 18th century
Scottish language (Robert Burns in his poem "To a Louse"), but the meaning
still strikes clear. Watching America publishes articles from media
sources the world over and gives a clear perception of how many nations
around the world view The United States and its policies. It's well worth
a few minutes to dig into these at any time, as we become more and more
globalized and need to understand more about the perceptions of each
other, whether here or anywhere in the world.
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