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Scootle – Home Scootle is a website which is a way of locating any of the 8000 items/learning objects in the Learning Federation for K-12. It just makes it easier to locate, download and manage required items, and a means to access this bank of resources. You can manage the resources into folders of your own, and can give instructions and/or comments for each item. It provides a URL for students or other staff to access your bank of resources webpage.
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The Drama Teacher The Drama Teacher is a blog created and maintained by Melbourne drama taechers Justin Cash. It has a lot of links, ideas and tips for Drama and Theatre teachers at all levels of education.
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Homework and Student Achievement — March 19, 2010 — Reference Desk — REL Northeast & Islands What Is the Impact of Homework on Student Achievement?” From “The Reference Desk, using available evidence and research, provides quick-turnaround responses to questions submitted by education stakeholders around the Northeast and Islands Region.”
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SoundJay.com – Free Sound Effects Free sound effects for your website or Flash.
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Vaughan Memorial Library : Tutorials : Plagiarism The site shows students what plagiarism is and how to avoid accidentally plagiarizing someone’s work.
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Vaughan Memorial Library : Tutorials : Searching with Success! This tool shows students how search engines function. The tutorial gives clear examples and directions for altering search terms.
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Vaughan Memorial Library : Tutorials : Credible Sources Count! Students learn how to recognize the validity of information on the Internet. It’s a good tutorial except for a strong emphasis on using domain names for determining validity.
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Vaughan Memorial Library: Tutorials : Research It Right! This walks students through the process of forming a research question through the actual research steps.
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Introduction to Creative Thinking Much of the thinking done in formal education emphasizes the skills of analysis–teaching students how to understand claims, follow or create a logical argument, figure out the answer, eliminate the incorrect paths and focus on the correct one. However, there is another kind of thinking, one that focuses on exploring ideas, generating possibilities, looking for many right answers rather than just one. Both of these kinds of thinking are vital to a successful working life, yet the latter one tends to be ignored until after college.
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How many words did Shakespeare know? Statistical techniques can give us a good estimate of how many words Shakespeare knew based on how many he used.
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Macbeth: Will the curse of the Scottish play strike again? – Times Online Discussion of Macbeth and theater superstitions.
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Mapped historical photos, film, and audio | SepiaTown Sepia Town lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe. tag
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Brass Goggles: The lighter side of Steampunk A blog that celebrates the lighter side of steampunk
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CeLT / LRT Learning Technologies Review Fabulous review of edtech (ncluding LMS) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Proposals were developed by the Learning Technologies Review project group, steered by the DVC Student Experience. The group presented its findings through a set of scenarios, which set threshold aspirations for staff and students. The scenarios were endorsed by MMU’s ICT Strategy Group and used to review learning technology options.
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PLN « Journey with Technology Links and ideas about building your Personal Learning Network
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Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Free Event : SharePoint in Education
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APA Style Blog: How Do I Cite a Kindle? APA Style Blog: How Do I Cite a Kindle? A new conundrum for researchers. This APA blog has some suggestions for APA style users.
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The Antipodean League of Temporal Voyagers – Australian Steampunk Australian steampunk blog
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Antipodean Steampunk Adventures Australian steampunk blog.
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The Steampunk Home Sara Brumfield’s blog about steampunk design. Many ideas of steampunk furniture to decorate your home
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SteamPod For readers who enjoy podcasts. They will appreciate Steampod [http://steampod.org] where you can listen to audio stories and interviews.
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theclockworkcentury.com This blog includes extensive archived information about the steampunk movement which can be accessed using the ‘steampunk info’ link listed under Categories.
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News from Green Man Press » Blog Archive » Instructive Instructions The blog for Charles Vess, an illustrator and artist. Has illustrated Neil Gaiman’s book “Instructions”
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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