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Like playing hide and seek? What if you could teach your core content at the same time? This site was created by PA Educators to show how to use geotagging with Google Maps and Geocaching using GPS units to transform your classroom into an empowering, exploratory environment and get your kids moving around and having fun.
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Educaching, A GPS Based Curriculum for Teachers
In the spirit of Geocaching, Educaching is a curriculum that uses GPS technology to create an innovative learning atmosphere.
Exciting lesson plans, unique ideas, and helpful strategies that incorporate the national teaching standards provide a
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Dr. Alice Christie’s GPS and Geocaching Guide for Educators
Technology is an integral and growing part of daily living in the twenty-first century. The challenge, then, for teachers, is to use technology effectively in classrooms to help students take ownership for learning and develop the practical and critical thinking skills necessary to better understand the world around them.
To meet this challenge, teachers can use an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.
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Top Ten Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started Teaching
The following tips are from the series Empowering the Beginning Teacher in Mathematics, by Cynthia Thomas.
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Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick
Wallwisher is an online notice board maker. It is ideal for making announcements, wishing people, keepingn otes, and things you can do with Post-its, and more… No user registration needed, use images, music, video, pages. Drag, drop, re-arrange easily.
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This is a viral wiki created as part of the Birds of a Feather, Using iTouch and iPhones for Teaching and Learning, at NECC 2009 held on Monday, June 29, 2009.
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Photojojo » Glow Doodle: Paint with Light in Real Time!
“Photograph” literally means “light drawing”, and that’s never been clearer than with our new favorite boredom-buster, Glow Doodle.
It lets you take long exposures so you can paint with light in real time using your webcam.
Try different lights for different effects: write your name with with a mini-flashlight, fire your camera’s flash, or play with the metamorphic effect of moving while the webcam is exposing.
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