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ASCD session: Preparing Global Thinkers, Workers and Leaders: A 21st C Ed Plan


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ASCD – Motion Leadership with Michael Fullan


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ASCD – General Session – Sat, 10 AM – Saving the World One Child at a Time with Jeoffrey Canada


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Cover It Live — ASCD General Session, Sat 8:00 AM — Yong Zhao, Catching Up or Leading the Way


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0069 TCT – By the Numbers

 
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  • Doodle 4 Google (1:15)
    “Doodle 4 Google is a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we’re inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, “If I Could Do Anything, I Would …”"
  • Science of the Olympic Winter Games (4:07)
    NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce Science of the Olympic Winter Games, a 16-part video series that explores the science behind individual Olympic events, including Downhill and Aerial Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Curling and Hockey, and Ski Jumping, Bobsledding and Snowboarding.
  • Draw, Animate, and Collaborate | DoInk.com (6:22)
    DoInk is a place to enjoy art and animation, and make your own. DoInk brings two things to the table: a community of talented people, and all the tools they need to share their ideas. Once, you’ve signed up you can begin animating, drawing, and sharing. And to speed things up, you can re-use the work of thousands of other users.
  • JOG THE WEB (8:54)
    “JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.”
  • 16 Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom (11:49)
    Google slideshow with examples for using Wall Wisher in the classroom
  • Unlucky Arithmetic: Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader – Practically Paradise – Blog on School Library Journal (13:25)
    “Unlucky Arithmetic: Thirteen Ways to Raise a Nonreader” – SLJ blog post with a link to a poster using tongue-in-cheek strategies illustrating the importance of helping kids to become readers (really!!)
  • The seven secrets behind great teaching – Features – TES Connect (15:15)
    “The TES magazine teamed up with business psychologists Crelos to analyse the personalities, motivations and behaviour of 15 award-winning teachers to uncover the seven habits that make them successful in the classroom.”
  • 5 Questions for Planning Successful Web-Based Activities (17:14)
    “Web-based instructional activities have an enormous potential to enhance and entice learning. Unfortunately integrating the internet into your curriculum in a way that has a positive impact on students’ learning is often a difficult process. 5 questions to ask yourself to help you get started. “
  • TCEA 2010 – iPhone/Touch Apps Member Suggestions (18:40)
    Google SS of apps that were compiled at TCEA 2010


Posted on : Feb 18 2010
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