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Teacher's Resources. Teacher Resources. Technology Resources for Teachers. Create Ebooks - PapyrusEditor. Where Learning Happens. The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have. By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below.

The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have

The 21st century teacher should be able to : How to Repair Small Engines: Tips and Guidelines" Small gas engines serve us in many ways.

How to Repair Small Engines: Tips and Guidelines"

They power lawn mowers, tillers, cultivators, trimmers, edgers, snowblowers, chain saws, pumps, generators, air compressors, and other useful home tools. They also power our fun: outboard boats, snowmobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, ultralight aircraft, and other toys. To keep them operating efficiently, an owner of these tools and toys should know about small engines: how they work and what to do when they don't. Small gas engines are made up of individual systems that work together to produce power. Each system has many components. Fuel and Exhaust The fuel and exhaust systems are critical to operation. Learning Technical Illustration. AutoCAD For Mac & Windows. Trial Product Privacy Notice This Trial Privacy Notice describes a data collection and use program.

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It applies in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia. If you are from another country, you will still need to click to agree to the notice, but the program will not apply to you. This notice explains the information we may collect through this product trial, and how we use it to send you useful, personalized communications (including content about new products and special promotions) by email, phone, in-product and/or on the www.autodesk.com website. We set a cookie to help us understand your activity on www.autodesk.com (and subdomains like store.autodesk.com). Free AutoCAD Tutorials : Introduction to 3D in AutoCAD 2010. You may have already figured out why CAD has many advantages over manual drafting.

Free AutoCAD Tutorials : Introduction to 3D in AutoCAD 2010

One big advantage is that once you've drawn something, you shouldn't have to draw it again. If you manually drew a house plan, you would have to draw a front elevation, side elevations, and possibly a perspective view. With one 3-D CAD model, you can generate views from any angle either inside or outside the house and animations. Afterwards, if your client needs something changed, you can then make the changes once. If you're drawing mechanical parts, you can generate virtual prototypes or even create rapid prototypes. You will have a chance to draw the same object different ways to see the differences between the various methods. The Architectural Student. Automotive Training and Resource Site. • PE. PE - Games Teaching Ideas. Catching Balloons - Help younger children with their co-ordination by using balloons in your PE lessons.

PE - Games Teaching Ideas

Hoop Activity - A very enjoyable activity which encourages children to co-operate in order to complete the task. Through the Hoop - A fun team-building game which involves trying to climb through hoops! Free Online Yoga Videos - Classes and Poses. Beginner to Advanced Yoga Classes, Yoga Teacher Training & Yoga Online. Nick's Quality Physical Education Resources. P.E. Science. Physics for Kids - Free Games, Fun Experiments, Activities, Science Online. The Amazing Physics of Everyday Objects. New Sims. Virtual Chemistry Experiments. Online Experimentation. Chemistry for Kids - Fun Experiments, Free Games, Cool Projects, Science Online.

iPhysics - Interactive Simulations of Physics and Physical Science Experiments, Math. Virtual Manipulatives. Core Math Tools Home. Use by Teachers and Students Core Math Tools can be saved on a computer or USB drive, making it possible to use without Internet access.

Core Math Tools Home

Files can be saved and reloaded by students and teachers. Its portability allows easy access for students, teachers and parents outside the classroom. Core Math Tools will automatically check for updates when launched and Internet access is available. Core Math Tools Conference Sessions 2013 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at the AMTE Conference. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. Online tools - maths online. One of many scientific calculators on the web.

Online tools - maths online

It accepts brackets, functions like sin, cos, tan, exp, log, sqrt, pow, asin, acos, atan, gamma, the constants E und PI. On the calculator's web page you find a detailed description. In a cooperation between the author and maths online in the beginning of 2000, the calculator's functionality has been extended. (The above version is loaded from the maths online website. Its original location is there). By the way: the plot is a gif-file and can be saved on your PC by a right mouse click. This page is a bit difficult to survey: The result is a web document looking exactly like the input page. Numerical tools on linear algebra: MATH TOOL CHEST - ONLINE. Calculators and Tools. MATCHING GRAPHS TO QUADRATIC EQUATIONS ACTIVITY (FREE VERSION) You have several options with this sort. Students can graph the equation then look for the matching graph, or they can take a graph find the matching equation.

Equations are in both standard and vertex form. You can also have student match the equations together to work on changing equations from one form to the other. This sort can be used if you have the students graph using transformations or if they find the vertex and 4 more points. Social Studies. Teacher Resources. The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Teacher Resources

Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations. Discover and discuss ways to bring the power of Library of Congress primary sources into the classroom. Go to the blog Subscribe to the blog via e-mail or RSS. Using Primary Sources. Great Free Tools and Resources for Teaching and Learning Social Studies. Fandor - Films, glorious films. DocsTeach. Timelines.tv - History, documentary and video online.

Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines. How to Teach with Technology: Social Studies. Check out these tips from students and educators for high tech teaching: Blogging the Textbook "As a teacher, to make social studies more fun, I use the CoveritLive blogging tool.

How to Teach with Technology: Social Studies

While I talk and read from the textbook, some of the kids have a blog conversation about what I am presenting. I can be sure they are staying on topic because another teacher approves their comments. (Every comment must be approved by a teacher.) CoveritLive is a publishing tool that allows users to instantly publish their blog posts, which allows it to serve somewhat like a chat room. Battle It Out "In history, instead of just reading about battles from World War II, have students recreate them on film. For online tutorials about filmmaking—from the planning stage to shooting to editing—the American Film Institute's ScreenNation offers a wealth of free resources. "Friending" Thomas Paine "We could use MySpace to create profiles about important people in history.

13 Good Resources for Social Studies Teachers. I recently met an old colleague of mine for breakfast.

13 Good Resources for Social Studies Teachers

Steve and I team taught a course together for a couple of years before he retired a few years ago. During our conversation he said to me, "Richard, what I knew you were good at was finding things our students liked. " Coming from Steve, whose opinions I hold in high regards, took that as a compliment and as a reminder that I haven't published a good list for fellow social studies teachers in quite a while. Therefore, this evening I sat down and combed through my archives to pick what I think are some off the better free resources for social studies teachers and students.

Museum Box is a great tool for creating virtual displays of artifacts that you find online. Mission U.S. offers two interactive journeys through two important eras in U.S. Hip Hughes History is a fantastic YouTube channel that I promoted a few times in 2012. Meograph is a digital storytelling tool that I featured a couple of times in 2012. English. Apprendre l'Anglais Rapidement. English Language (ESL) Learning Online - UsingEnglish.com. Learn English Online.

Useful Tools for the Learning and Teaching of English. The 100 Best (And Free) Online Learning Tools. We’re always excited to find the next best thing. But how does one actually find this supposed next best thing? Let Edudemic do the work for you! For example, ever wanted to spend zero dollars but have some of the most bleeding edge technologies at your disposal?

Fear not! In the vain of C4LPT, we bring you many other resources that are not as well-known as those featured on their site. Sharing and Collaborating These sites offer a place for educators to find open educational resources as well as provide a place for those who want to share their ideas or work collaboratively on projects. Apple Learning Interchange. Open Courseware Search Engines. Free Online Resources and Tools to Learn English. By Laurianne Sumerset Believe it or not, you don't have to shed out a fortune on English learning software to improve your English skills. There are a number of free online resources you can utilize to improve the quality of your English knowledge and rapidly advance your proficiency. In this article we explore four five resources capable of taking your English writing and speaking from average to great in an effective, efficient manner.

Free English Language Online Tools - Learn, Teach or Research English.