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Who’s Best Suited to Teach and Learn in Virtual Schools? Teaching Strategies Flickr:UTC Library Online learning is not easy, says Maureen Cottrell, a science teacher at iHigh Virtual Academy, a fully-accredited virtual public high school in San Diego, California. “Many students fully expect it to be easy and then bomb out.” Digital posters: Composing with an online canvas “Are we Glogging today?” It’s a typical New England morning and our sixth grade students are all dutifully lined up in the fading autumn sunshine beneath the trees. Most schools typically have a series of fire drills toward the start of the year, and my school is no exception. Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War: The History of World War 2 This collection of more than 140,000 clippings, arranged by subject and date, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war. The English-language clippings are from the archive of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper, while the French-language materials are from a collection of the newspaper Le Devoir. You are invited to explore the online database using either the Basic search or the detailed search, which includes a date searching feature. Short historical articles on key topics from the time period, along with sample clippings from the collection, supplement this impressive resource of news information "as it happened".

Pinched Head Blog » Articulate Engage 09 – Do the Monkeys Love it? If you want a simple way to interject interactivity into your eLearning courses, check out Articulate Engage. The folks at Articulate describe Engage as ”a quick and easy tool that lets you create lean-forward experiences that learners love”. I’m not exactly sure what lean-forward means Project-Based Learning Made Easy "Project-based learning is great but it is too hard for teachers to do well." I have heard this belief stated more times than I can count. Is PBL really so difficult that only a select number of masterful teachers, innovative schools, and dynamic school leaders can pull off high quality projects? I don't think so. In the service of inspiring educators to embrace a performance-based approach to teaching, learning and assessment by highlighting great projects, I am worried that we actually dissuade teachers and leaders from using this approach. As learners we need to be presented with challenging yet attainable tasks in order to gain our full engagement.

The Children's Dental Centre » Blog Archive » Meet the Paediatric Dentist Dr. Shonna Masse Dr. Shonna Masse is a certified specialist in paediatric dentistry. She treats children from teething to teens, and children with special needs. TV eLearning Exclusive shows to explore creative possibilities in authoring and publishing eLearning content To view this content, you need the latest version of the Flash Player. Adobe TV uses the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) to deliver a superior video experience. Please upgrade your Flash Player to version 10.2 to benefit from this technology. 360 Degrees of Reflection Teacher Effectiveness | Feature 360 Degrees of Reflection Some cutting-edge technologies are trying to take teacher evaluation to the next level. But their real power may be as self-evaluation tools. By John K. Waters05/02/11

A Roadmap for Building an E-Learning Course When we’re new and just getting started with elearning, we need templates and project plans to guide us. On the other hand, experienced developers rely less on those resources because they have more experience and a deeper understanding of what it takes to create an elearning course. Think of it like driving around town. When I first moved to town, I needed a map.

Introduction to the field of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Please read the below, as well as the different "Tasks" (left sidebar towards the bottom), and then if you are interested in being a core member, click on apply to "sign up", if you want to follow along, you can "Follow" (button on left sidebar) the course. Course will start on April 25th, 2011. organized by Stian Haklev and Monica Resendes at P2PU Target group Graduate students in educational technology interested in the field of CSCL - many of whom do not have access to appropriate courses at their own institutions People active in the open education movement, involved with MOOCs etc, who are interested in how this academic field can benefit their projects Anyone else - teachers? (Unlikely that many will find out about it). We expect a minimum level of educational theory, etc.

Teachers and Transformational Learning /ICT An International Look Teachers and Transformational Learning /ICT International Reflections Some say, in thinking about teaching and learning “A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.”lately, it seems that most people want to blame the teacher for the problems in our countries and burn out those currenly in the profession.

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