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Crosswell looks at how resilient teachers keep themselves energised and switched on.

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Notes from Judith Baenen’s Keynote MYSA09 HELP-Living with a pre-adolescent

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Judith Baenen. Notes from MYSA09 on involving families in schools: Crucial Connection

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GoogleLitTrips is a different way to read great literature!
The site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place

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Kids’ Skills is a cooperative method for helping children overcome bahavioral and emotional problems based on solution-focused psychology.

I particularly like the ‘Sorry Letter’.

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Voki are avatars. Get your own speaking avatar from http://www.voki.com/


Try it, you’ll be hooked!

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Wordle creates word clouds. Great for identifying most used words, and a novel survey method. This is a wordle of my del.icio.us favourites. Cool:


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CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in January 2007, aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Using a collaborative and web-based compilation model that can be manifested as an adaptive textbook – termed the “FlexBook” – CK-12 intends to pioneer the creation and distribution of high quality educational web texts both as traditional print and online medium. At the same time, CK-12 hopes to use the leverage that open source models, like Linux software and Wikipedia encyclopedia, have used to continually improve regionally and temporally relevant content. 

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If you’ve experienced SMART Notebook software, you’ve probably noticed the impact it can have on everyday lessons – transforming them into interactive learning opportunities.

Now, that powerful and intuitive software is available for students – SMART Notebook Student Edition. Created for the way today’s students interact with information, this beta version enables them to organize their projects and complete assignments in a personalized and nonlinear format. An intuitive interface enables students to find and categorize their notes, and manage their due dates with ease.

http://smarttech.com/notebookse/index.asp?WT.mc_id=nbse_email_download

I cannot wait to try this with my classes.

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Mixed ideas from a freenology presentation at NECC 08:

www.Polleverywhere.com

www.gcast.com

www.tripforteachers.org

www.freerice.com

www.ikeepbookmarks.com

www.twitter.com

www.jott.com

www.4teachers.org

www.op97.org

www.loc.gov/teachers

www.wolfram.com/edu

www.professorgarfield.org

www.vocabulary.com

www.tigerlogic.com/chunkit

www.teachertube.com

www.myhaikuclass.com

www.virtualspacecommunity.org

www.netsmartz.org

www.hippocampus.org

www.wetheteachers.com

 

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