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“Challenge Based Learning is an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. Challenge Based Learning is collaborative and hands-on, asking students to work with other students, their teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to develop deeper knowledge of the subjects students are studying, accept and solve challenges, take action, share their experience, and enter into a global discussion about important issues.”
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Fun Games for Kids: Educational Online Games For Kids | PBS Parents
“Explore dozens of fun games and activities for kids designed to foster early learning and child development. Search by program, activity type and skill to find toddler activities, preschool games and more!”
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Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies
“Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs.”
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“TitanPad
TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneouslyWe are rescuing EtherPad for your use.”
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Blogs: Webs of Connected Learning, Miguel Guhlin
“This idea of building your own professional development network – where you find the people from whom you can learn, ask questions of them, comment on their thoughts and links, and have them do the same for you – is one of the major benefits of blogging and podcasting. It is the art of conversation captured in digital format. This article shares how blogs enable both adult learners and students to create their own Personal Learning Networks, sometimes with unintended consequences – both positive and negative. It also examines possible solutions to address unintended consequences among student blog use”
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WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here
Blogging platform
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Google’s Blog platform
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“This wiki was created to easily help educators find other educators on Twitter that have the same interests as them (that teach in the same content area). Check out the list of educators on the pages linked below and add your Twitter name to the appropriate list too.
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Edmodo Documentation Wiki / FrontPage
How to use Edmodo
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Support Blogging! – Links to School Bloggers
A GREAT list of educational bloggers
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Jessica Gross: Embracing the Twitter Classroom
“Teaching students to learn from and with each other is a wise acknowledgment that more and more, students are relying on their peers for information. Sixty-five percent of Americans aged 12-17 and 67 percent of those aged 18-32 use social networking sites, according to the Pew Research Center. Students’ lives are infused with each other’s viewpoints.
Teachers and professors like Parry and Camplese are taking group work to the next logical step: incorporating social media into their classrooms. In lieu of fighting teens’ use of networking sites, they are communicating with students in a language that they understand. “
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The Prose of Blogging (and a Few Cons, Too) — THE Journal
“Can the technology often derided as the favored tool of lowbrow cyber rogues actually be used to improve student writing? Educators are beginning to demonstrate it can.”
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To Blog or Not to Blog? You Decide
On pages 28-33 of this magazine, Wesley Fryer outlines the pros and cons of blogging and provides some examples for how to get started.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.