Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age!
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Once more, it is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations and parades are put on just prior to the observance of Lent. Over the past few weeks parades and celebrations have taken place throughout Europe, the Caribbean and South America. An estimated 730,000 foreign tourists, many fleeing snowy winter conditions in Europe and the United States, traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for this year's celebrations. Collected here are a handful of images from some of the elaborate celebrations of this Carnival season. (39 photos total)
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RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration.
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If you aren't using VoiceThread, check it out. There are lots of possibilities to using this tool with your students, no matter what the grade level. I am leading an after school session on VoiceThread in the classroom today and wanted to share some great links I have found and others have shared with me for you to access
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The National Writing Project (NWP) is a nationwide network of educators working together to improve the teaching of writing in the nation's schools.
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George Mason University professor Donald R. Gallehr remembers the dark ages of writing instruction. In the 1960s, when he started teaching at the school, most of the writing teachers he encountered considered themselves topic-assigners and graders -- not writers. Usually, the most they wrote were...
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FileSocial is the easiest way to share files on Twitter. You can upload any kind of file, from pictures to videos, PDFs or Power point... Whatever you want!
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To increase the degree to which students collaborate with one another to promote learning course content. Benefits of Addressing Considerable research indicates that when students collaborate with one another they... Engage in more discussion, problem solving, and critical thinking. Learn the subject matter more completely. Have a more positive classroom experience. Develop higher levels of interest in the subject matter being studied. Retain information longer than students working individually. Become more competent and confident public speakers.
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Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar...
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