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SimpleK12 » Blog Archive » I blog, you blog, let’s ALL blog! – Reasons YOU should have a classroom blog!
"I see a huge value in incorporating them in your classrooms. I would bet that if you mentioned the idea of a blog in your classroom to your students, they would be HYPED. Why? It’s quite [...]

Google Apps Marketplace – Appointy – Appointment Scheduler
Did you ever feel like accepting appointments from your clients on Google Calendar
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Growing up Global home
'Growing up Global' offers fascinating ideas
for giving young people opportunities to become truly global citizens. Learning about the customs and culture [...]

VoiceThread – Digital Library
We used VoiceThread as digital portfolios for our student-led conferences. This is a student’s digital portfolio (permission to share it received). As an educator, I was looking for a more interactive record of learning for my students to show their parents. I was also looking for a way that parents could communicate [...]

Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious
This site provides a simple bookmarking service. We follow your twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you. We'll even add a delicious tag identifying the sender if you like.
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DesignShare Home
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Facing the Future | Sustainability & Global Issues Resources
Climate change. Population growth. Poverty. Environmental degradation. Conflict. Global health crises. Intractable global problems? We don’t think so. At Facing the Future we believe in the transformative power of widespread, systemic education to improve lives and communities, both locally and globally. [...]

Tech Transformation: A Window to the World – Grade 2s connect worldwide (part 2)
what was really exciting about this blog post, was seeing our school and the view from our classroom, projected up onto the wall in the classroom in Florida – we had lifted the laptop onto the windowsill to show the students our [...]

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Flixtime – Video Slideshows made easy!
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Flixtime turns your photos and videos into stunning and unique videos in just [...]

Tech Transformation: Whatever the Weather – Grade 2s connect worldwide
I started with the Around the World with 80 Schools project set up by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (Langwitches blog), and then set about connecting with schools in very different parts of the world. We wanted some southern hemisphere schools – so that the students would see [...]

Columbia News Service » Blog Archive » Skype Gives Students Window On The World
When Silvia Tolisano, an elementary school teacher in Jacksonville, Fla., traveled on a global studies trip to Peru a few years ago she took her students with her. Virtually.
(tags: langwitches skype_in_classroom articles)

Teach with a Touch
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