BrainPOP UK customer buzz Don’t just read the buzz – watch it too in our Video Testimonials! “We’ve seen a real difference in terms of how children engage with their learning and particularly in them wanting to explore and learn more. Since using BrainPOP the quality and quantity of home learning has vastly improved. Sarah Wright, Longton Lane Primary (read the full article) “I would like to thank you for the unbelievably excellent response to my email query. Mary McDonach, parent, home educator, and writer on WonderBaby.org “I want to thank you for the personal touch in the help we have received from the BrainPOP team since joining. Mrs I Durrant, Evelina Hospital School “Often, on the educational front, parents can feel a little bit exposed; they’re not confident on the topics that the children are learning in school. Jonathan Farr, ICT Coordinator at Aldborough Free School “I just wanted to thank you for a fast and exceptional customer response. Gary Wilson, Home Educator — Tracey McKay (@mckaytracey)
How Children Learn: Portraits of Classrooms Around the World by Maria Popova A revealing lens on a system-phenomenon both global in reach and strikingly local in degree of diversity. Since 2004, Julian Germain has been capturing the inner lives of schools around the world, from England to Nigeria to Qatar, in his large-scale photographs of schoolchildren in class. Classroom Portraits (public library) is part Where Children Sleep, part Bureaucratics, part What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, part something else entirely — a poignant lens on a system-phenomenon that is both global in reach and strikingly local in degree of peculiarity, revealed through more than 450 portraits of schoolchildren from 20 countries. Jessore, Bangladesh. Year 10, English. Image courtesy Julian Germain Brazil, Belo Horizonte, Series 6, Mathematics USA, St Louis, Grade 4 & 5, Geography Nigeria, Kano, Ooron Dutse, Senior Islamic Secondary Level 2, Social Studies Taiwan, Ruei Fang Township, Kindergarten, Art St. England, Seaham, Reception and Year 1, Structured Play
Little Bird Tales - Home The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. In order to put together a list of the best Web 2.0 classroom tools, I polled my Twitter followers, Facebook fans (are they still called fans? Likes?) and ran a contest to try and get as many submissions as possible. There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates.
Volunteer Abroad with the International Volunteering Organization Projects Abroad Where it All Started In the early 1990s, some students wanted a break from study - a "gap year," although the term wasn't yet in common use. They approached their geography professor about traveling and working in Eastern Europe. The professor, Dr. Peter Slowe, had difficulty finding any opportunities for this kind of travel combined with work experience, so he set about arranging for his students to go and teach English in Romania where he knew some fellow academics. Until 1997, Projects Abroad was a small organization with just two part time staff sending university students to teach English in Eastern Europe. Projects Abroad Today Now after over 20 years, we have offices around the world, including two North American offices located in New York City and Toronto. Projects Abroad volunteers are aged from 16 to 75! Projects Abroad in the Global Economy We help to create local employment wherever we send volunteers. Cultural Exchange and Freedom of Choice
iBooks Author Technology "How To" Guidelines | Social Media Productivity | Scoop.it "How to" Guideline series is coordinated by Helen Mongan-Rallis of the Education Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions to improve these guidelines please me at e-mail hrallis@d.umn.edu. This site contains various guidelines developed to assist people in using a variety of computer applications and tools. All work created by Helen Mongan-Rallis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Guidelines related to web page development: Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts & audio/video conferencing Course Management Systems iDevice guides (iPad, iPod, iPod Touch) Online Research Tools Presentation media: Inspiration: Virtual Field Trips (by Helen Mongan-Rallis. Microsoft Office Excel: Creating a simple gradebook using an Excel spreadsheet: download Excel document which displays the guidelines along with an actual example (by Helen Mongan Rallis) PowerPoint: Graphics: Video University of MN Duluth Guides: Other:
The Tobacco land cycling - Viaja por Cuba.com Duration: 8 days/7 nights Passenger minimun: 6 guests Next Departures: January 07 and February 25, 2013 Itinerary Day 1. Havana Arrival to Jose Marti International Airport in Havana Transfer to a 3 Star hotel. Lodging. Day 2. Breakfast and check out. Day 3. Breakfast and check out. Day 4. Breakfast and check out. Day 5. Breakfast and check out. Day 6. Breakfast. Day 7. Breakfast and check out. Day 8. Breakfast and check out. Included * Welcome in the Havana Airport * Transfers airport-hotel-airport * Accommodations * Breakfast buffet * Lunch and Diner mentioned in the program * Visit to all tourist places mentioned * Bus Asistence during all the program * Travel guide Not Included: International flight to Cuba Bicycles Tips Services not mentioned Importante Notes: