Flip teaching Flip teaching or a flipped classroom is a form of blended learning in which students learn new content online by watching video lectures, usually at home, and what used to be homework (assigned problems) is now done in class with teachers offering more personalized guidance and interaction with students, instead of lecturing. This is also known as backwards classroom, flipped classroom, reverse teaching, and the Thayer Method."[1][2][3] Research: MapMaker Interactive - National Geographic Welcome to the MapMaker Interactive This tutorial explains how to explore National Geographic Education's interactive GIS mapping tool and tools for customizing outline maps for print. Use the zoom bar to go from a world view to a local view (or in cartographic terms, from a large scale to a small scale).
Apps for Teachers / Special Needs Pages This Blog Linked From Here Apps for Teachers / Special Needs Curio - Mind Mapping, Brainstorming, and Project Management Software for Mac OS X Curio is an amazingly flexible digital notebook for storing and managing everything. The Real World You have work projects and home projects, school classes to manage and book reports to research, vacations to plan and novels to write, web sites to design and lab results to organize. Perhaps you currently use a collection of notebooks, your office whiteboard, scraps of sticky notes, oodles of browser bookmarks, and multiple documents scattered around your hard disk.
Ever Wonder Why Mario is Willing to Risk Fiery Death for Princess Peach? (PIC)(Probably NSFW) From what I can remember from Super Mario 64 and Super Smash Bros., Princess Peach isn’t really much of a conversationalist. She’s actually a little bit annoying. And then there was the super-sexist Super Princess Peach on the Nintendo DS, which showed that Peach was absolutely crazy, as she relied on her insane and overblown lady emotions to make her into a Hulk-like killing machine*. So given Peach’s lack of real personality and possible penchant for stabbing Mario in his sleep, I always kind of wondered what he saw in her. Then Reddit explained it:
Designing a New Learning Environment What constitutes learning in the 21st century? Should reading, watching, memorizing facts, and then taking exams be the only way to learn? Or could technology (used effectively) make learning more interactive, collaborative, and constructive? Could learning be more engaging and fun? Research: Islands - National Geographic An island is a land area completely surrounded by water. Familiar islands include Madagascar and the Hawaiian Islands. But Greenland is also an island, as is Cuba, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Manhattan. The Bahamas, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, and New Zealand are nations made up of islands. A group of related islands, such as the Philippines, is called an archipelago. There are two types of islands: continental and oceanic.
5 iPad Apps Every Teacher Should Have Just to wrap up our week of apps for teachers here are some favourites that will make your iPad a little more productive in the classroom. Enjoy iWork Until Microsoft release office for the iPad iWork offers the MS Works equivalent of a productivity suite for the iPad. The Five Best Tools for Creating Videos Without Installing Software Over the years I've published some lists and reviews of free tools for creating videos online. Quite a few of those tools have been for creating simple videos that are really just automated, audio slideshows. See Animoto for an example of this. There's nothing inherently wrong with having your students use those tools, but at some point you will want to take your video projects to the next level. These are the five tools that I recommend for creating and editing videos without installing any special software. Pixorial is the online video creation tool that I hear teachers talking about a lot lately.
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Pearltrees Visualizes How You Organize the Web This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Pearltrees Quick Pitch: Pearltrees is a new visual way to organize content on the Web and connecting people's interests.
Deciduous Forest Biome Deciduous forests can be found in the eastern half of North America, and the middle of Europe. There are many deciduous forests in Asia. Some of the major areas that they are in are southwest Russia, Japan, and eastern China. South America has two big areas of deciduous forests in southern Chile and Middle East coast of Paraguay.