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Teaching With Documents Skip Navigation. Teachers Home > Teachers' Resources > Teaching With Documents Bloom's interactive taxonomy Last week I had a wonderful opportunity to attend a Master Teachers Course organized in Prague by Intel Teacher Engage and led by the one and only Ollie Bray. Ollie had 18 of us from Eastern Europe + Spain glued to every word he said and made us do all the activities eagerly and enthusiastically for almost ten hours every day. He's an exceptional presenter, a skilful teacher trainer and a great person. Everything was meticulously organized by the wonderful Ruth Merrett from Intel who made it all run smoothly and who took care of all of us with a smile on her face. It was an absolute honour for me to be there with teachers from different countries, some of them Glogster ambassadors like myself, and to learn together with them and from them. One of the teachers in the course was my dear friend Rose, who I had the pleasure of meeting virtually almost three years ago when she joined my Greetings from the world project.

Historical Movies in Chronological Order (UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- I'm watching and writing about these movies as fast as I can, but it is going to take awhile.) Used a lot of Wikipedia, IMDb and amazon.com email: plc47@optonline.net Patrick Louis Cooney, Ph. D., sociologist, historian, botanist Copyright © 2006 by Patrick Louis Cooney. Homeschool Geography & Maps Activities and Games Free Downloads Geography & Maps The following downloads are provided for those of you who purchased a hard copy of this curriculum. These are color copies that you can print out on your own computer or take to a copy center. (Downloads provide color patterns only, no instructions.) Watch Free Movies and Documentaries Online Your Queue Settings Log Out Snag Selects super tag loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert

NSDL.org - National Science Digital Library NSDL provides access to high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Enter one or more keywords in the text box above. To refine your search further, select critieria for educational level, resource type, or subject. When you are finished, click on the Search button. CBA Support / FrontPage Whatcom County Library System Social Studies Uniting to Support Success: Promoting School/Library Teamwork to Engage Learning for Life Are you an educator? You can participate in adding content to this wiki! All About Explorers Henry Hudson According to detailed records recently discovered in the archives of the Cork County Records Office in Ireland, Henry Hudson was born in room 441 of the Blarney Medical Center at 3:17 PM on Monday, August 13, 1593. He was a very well-educated man who attended the famous Harvard University.

SAP - integrate Twitter in PPT Contents If you don’t find what you’re looking for, please add a comment below! PowerPoint Twitter Feedback Slide Instructions Put the slide in presentation mode to view the feedback tool. If it does not appear, you may have to enable active content — see the troubleshooting page VocalNationalAnthems Jana Gana Mana (Bengali: জন গণ মন, Jôno Gôno Mono) is the national anthem of India. Written in highly Sanskritized Bengali, it is the first of five stanzas of a Brahmo hymn composed and scored by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. It was first sung at the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December 1911. Jana Gana Mana was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian national anthem on January 24, 1950. An earlier poem by Tagore (Amar Shonar Bangla) was later selected as the national anthem of Bangladesh.

The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People Reducing statistics to “if _________ were 100 people, then __________” can make them very accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking. For example, there’s the well-known “If Twitter Was 100 People” infographic. There are also several sites that use “gimmick” to illustrate much more important data about the world around us. I thought they might make a useful “The Best…” list for English Language Learners and others. Here are my choices for The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People:

Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today and Ellis Island World War II and the Postwar Period The United States entered World War II in 1942. During the war, immigration decreased. There was fighting in Europe, transportation was interrupted, and the American consulates weren't open. Fewer than 10 percent of the immigration quotas from Europe were used from 1942 to 1945.In many ways, the country was still fearful of the influence of foreign-born people. All Sites - Stack Exchange Stack Overflow Stack Overflow Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers Server Fault Server Fault

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