All Blog Posts Tagged 'online' (6)

http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2012/

This annual survey facilitated by Project Tomorrow gives individuals, classes, and entire school districts the opportunity to share their viewpoints about key educational issues — and to influence local, state and federal policies and programs.

Since the inaugural survey in 2004, when it went by the name NetDay, millions…

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Here are a few new resources. Happy exploring!

The Picture Post Network

Picture Post involves ordinary people (and school groups) in studying their environment through digital photography.  Participants establish a post (a designated observation site) and then take an eight-shot panorama of the surrounding landscape and a photo of the sky overhead.  Afterward, they upload the photographs to the Picture Post website.…

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Here are a few new resources I've recently learned about:

Nature Works Everywhere

http://www.natureworkseverywhere.org/

Introducing a new online portal providing teachers and students with tools to explore and understand nature's fantastic factory.  The Nature Conservancy and its scientists have partnered with Discovery Education to create Nature Works Everywhere to help…

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Seems appropriate to add this post on Earth Day.

 

Last Sunday night, 10 April, PBS aired a one-hour special on climate change and sustainable energy, called Earth: The Operators' Manual (ETOM). ETOM has a website with segments that are available for download - visit  the Earth: The Operators' Manual website and download. Here teachers will find ways to use the…

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From T.H.E. journal: Assistant Principal in the St. Johns County school district in Florida, Patrick McGee, explains that whatever the other advantages of adopting iPads and iPods in the classroom, the key is student engagement.  The article also includes a list of apps for the iPod and iPad that address a range of instructional and curricular areas (such as Splice, Animoto, eClicker, etc).

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Google has partnered with NASA, CERN, National Geographic, Scientific American, and the LEGO Group to create a global STEM competition. Students aged 13 - 18 can enter as individuals or as teams of up to three. The Google Science Fair will culminate in a celebratory event at Google headquarters in California in July 2011, where finalists will compete for internships, scholarships, and prizes in front of a panel of celebrity scientist judges including Nobel Laureates and household names. The… Continue