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iTunes U - Learn anything, anywhere, anytime.

iTunes U - Learn anything, anywhere, anytime.
Your students will experience the courses you build using the free iTunes U app for iPad. It’s a powerful app that lets students have all the materials for the course right at their fingertips. From the iTunes U app, students can play video or audio lectures and take notes that are synchronized with the lecture. They can read books and view presentations. See a list of all the assignments for the course and check them off as they’re completed. And when you send a message or create a new assignment, students receive a push notification with the new information.1 Learn more about the iTunes U app for students

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KIPP LA Schools: Knowledge Is Power Program in Los Angeles How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education - TNW Industry As connection speeds increase and the ubiquity of the Internet pervades, digital content reigns. And in this era, free education has never been so accessible. The Web gives lifelong learners the tools to become autodidacts, eschewing exorbitant tuition and joining the ranks of other self-taught great thinkers in history such as Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul Allen and Ernest Hemingway. “Learning is not a product of schooling but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” -Albert Einstein

ESL Song Lessons - tefltunes.com - Songs For Teaching Grammar ESL and EFL teachers looking for inspiration for lesson planning will find this list of songs to teach English grammar we’ve compiled a useful resource. Highlighted are songs available as complete ESL song lesson plans here on tefltunes.com. Songs for teaching present simple Eric Clapton / Wonderful Tonight (lyrics) The Beatles / She Loves You (lyrics) Bette Middler / From A Distance (lyrics) Songs for teaching present continuous Rod Stewart / Sailing (lyrics) Fool’s Garden / Lemon Tree (lyrics) Suzanne Vega / Tom’s Diner (lyrics)

Journée d’étude : ‘Innovations didactiques dans l’enseignement-apprentissage de l’espagnol de spécialité grâce aux ressources technologiques’ Ce podcast présente les communications des « IXe rencontre international du GERES » (Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche en Espagnol de Spécialité). Les communications présentées dans ce podcast s’adressent aux enseignants d’espagnol et à tous les enseignants de langue intéressés par l’intégration des technologies. Ces rencontres ont offert un large panel de thèmes de réflexion et d’échanges d’expériences : de la question de la « survie » du manuel traditionnel à l’utilisation de plateformes de formation en ligne, à l’accompagnement des apprenants en présentiel et à distance, à la création d’un environnement dédié à la mobilité internationale, à la réflexion sur l’apport de l’intégration du web 2.0, à la présentation de séquences réalisées en classe, à l’aide apportée par un parcours de soutien en ligne, à la gestion de l’information véhiculée par les technologies, bon nombre de questions auxquelles les enseignants de langue sont souvent confrontés ont été ainsi abordées.

Neuroscience For Kids The smell of a flower - The memory of a walk in the park - The pain of stepping on a nail. These experiences are made possible by the 3 pounds of tissue in our heads...the BRAIN!! Neuroscience for Kids has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn about the nervous system. Discover the exciting world of the brain, spinal cord, neurons and the senses. Use the experiments, activities and games to help you learn about the nervous system. There are plenty of links to other web sites for you to explore. Khan Academy Sitting pretty Take one industrial designer renowned for his innovative approach and one manufacturer heralded for its environmental policy and the result is something rather ground breaking - the SAYL office chair. During its design process Yves Behar, founder of San Francisco-based design firm fuseproject, together with the development team at Herman Miller, scrutinised every part of the chair to ensure that it would be the lightest, strongest and most sustainable possible. Certainly its most innovative feature is the full suspension back, which is literally frameless. Although Herman Miller has been environmentally aware since it was first founded in Michigan in 1905, it was in 2000 that it publicly stated its intention to become a sustainable business. Soon after, the Design for the Environment (DfE) team was established to develop environmentally sensitive design standards for new and existing products. “If you want to truly innovate this cannot be done on a computer.

English Language Centre Study Zone: Welcome! About the Study Zone The Study Zone is for students of the English Language Centre (ELC) at the University of Victoria. ELC teachers create the English language lessons and practice exercises. The site is designed for our adult English language learners, but all are welcome to read the lessons and use the exercises. News and Feedback

If you have an iTunes account log in and find lots for totally free lectures from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Iowa State. by sdeprosse Feb 19

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