Diigo bookmarks for today 06/07/2010

• Interactive Weather for Kids - The Weather Channel Kids

  Tags: educational, weather, kids

• McGraw-Hill's AccessScience Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online

  
  Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th editionResearch Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citationsContent contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winnersBiographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®The latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videosContinuously updated, fully-searchable, media-rich content, terms, images and videosadded illustrations, animations, and image galleriesquestions answered in our weekly Q&AAccessScience puts the most useful and up-to-date technology to work for you: in addition to fast, sophisticated search capability, you'll find RSS feeds, Flash® animations, image galleries, podcasts, videos, and more, with our enhanced search engine making discovery of this wide range of information easier than ever. 
  Whatever you need, AccessScience is designed to help: 
  For StudentsData, tables and tools linked directly from topic home pages, so you're never more than a few clicks from the answers you needEssay topics to guide research and reportsFor EducatorsHigh quality images and illustrations, downloadable to use in PowerPoint presentationsStudy Center offers curriculum-oriented tools, Flash tutorials, and study guidesFor LibrariansLibrarian resource center highlights news and features, research tips and tools, easy-to-access online user statistics reports, and much moreSearch by content type, collection, topic or sub-topic, with semantic search, corrective spelling, results filtering and saved search criteria

  Tags: encyclopedia, science, dictionary, educational

• Explorations Through Time

  A series of interactive modules that explore the history of life on Earth, while focusing on the processes of science. Each module contains suggested lesson plans and an extensive teacher’s guide.

  Tags: geologic_time_scale, timeline, interactive, online, education, tool, site:edu

• The Field Museum's On-line Exhibits

  As an educational institution the Field Museum offers multiple opportunities for both informal and more structured public learning.

  Tags: geologic_time_scale, timeline, interactive, online, education, tool, history

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Diigo bookmarks for today 06/06/2010

• Op-Ed Columnist - Race to Sanity - NYTimes.com

  The Obama administration’s education policy is a model of balanced governance.

  Tags: washington, education, standards, school, students, academics, government, programs

• How to do Well in an Online Class in Distance Education Courses

  Enrolling in a distance education course can raise many concerns, with how to do well in an online class being a leading cause of for this anxiety. Avoiding this apprehension requires a good understanding of the process of using the computers during online classes. This also leads to the need for preparation, planning, and developing an understanding one’s ability to learn and study.
  
  

  Tags: distance, education, online, course, computer, and, software, learning, studying, how, to, do, adult, learners, style

• Debbie Meier and the Dawn of Central Park East by Seymour Fliegel, City Journal Winter 1994

  Tags: progressive, education, school, design

• Examples of Student Innovation - home

  Tags: student, examples, learning, Education, all_teachers, bestpractices

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Diigo bookmarks for today 06/05/2010

• home — The Gateway to 21st Century Skills

  Tags: education, teaching, reference, technology, tools, resource

• Symphony of Science

  a site designed to deliver science knowledge by music. Nice Mash-up

  Tags: music, education, learning, all_teachers, techintegrator, elementary, middleschool, science, language

• How the Finns got it so right - Best education system in the world

  Tags: education, finland

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Diigo bookmarks for today 06/04/2010

• Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition

  Guidance Counselor Alert:
  
  "The YES Competition was established in 2003 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the College Board to inspire talented high school students to apply epidemiological methods to the investigation of public health issues and, ultimately, encourage the brightest young minds to enter the field of public health.
  
  The Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Competition, the nation’s leading public health competition for high school students, has opened the application process for its 2010-11 Competition. The online registration, guidelines and a new YES project guide are now available online at www.collegeboard.com/yes. The deadline for entries is 9 AM EST, February 1, 2011."
  
  
  I do wish that they would have multimedia as a part of this competition as some of the best competitions out there engage this medium. However, this is something that those going into health should look into.

  Tags: education, scholarship

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Diigo bookmarks for today 06/03/2010

• Life Science Reference - Biology Online

  Tags: biology, dictionary, resource, lang:en, meta, science, education

• History of Flight, Aviation, Space Exploration | AirSpaceMag.com

  Smtihsonion's air and space museum online. videos and other resources

  Tags: education, science, air&space, museum, resources, space, flight

• Science NetLinks: Resources for Teaching Science

  Science NetLinks is part of Thinkfinity, a partnership between the Verizon Foundation and 11 premier educational organizations. The Thinkfinity partners include the AAAS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Council on Economic Education, the National Geographic Society, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the Literacy Network.

  Tags: sceince, education, activites, tools, resources, k-12

• Social Learning Academy

  The Social Learning Academy is intended for learning professionals  - in Workplace Learning and Education - who are new to social media and would like to find out more about the different social technologies and their application to learning.

  Tags: education, educators, social media

• Brainology

  This is an outstanding article about motivation and learning and proof that intelligence can be developed and grown.

  Tags: education, learning, brainology, motivation

• Fuel the Brain | Educational Resources and Games

  It is our dream that teachers won’t have to hunt and search for activities for hours or spend a fortune on materials. We hope to continue to build this site until it is a comprehensive collection of teaching materials across several grades. The site currently focuses on kindergarten-third grade objectives. We have begun with mathematics but will continue to create across subjects.

  Tags: education, activities, elementary, k-6, interactive, games

• Free Science Books and Journals | Sciyo.com

  Sciyo.com is a fast-growing open access scientific publisher, enabling barrier-free access to the latest research developments, knowledge and ideas within the field of Science and Technology.

  Tags: education, research, primary source, science, documents

• WordSteps

  WordSteps is a place for people to learn foreign words and keep their vocabularies in fit condition. Here you can not only enrich your vocabulary, but you can also track your progress and recall the words you could forget.

  Tags: education, lote, verbs

• How Much Has TV Changed Since 1926? A Lot. | SterlingSatellite Blog

  Did you know it took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users? TV has evolved from the time it started with just a few programs airing each day into 24/7 news and hundreds of stations to choose from.
  People didn’t immediately embrace the new technology though. 10 years after its debut in 1936, the head of 20th Century Fox Darryl F. Zanuck (seeing TV as a competitor to movies) famous last words were predicting it would not catch on.  He said he thought “People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”

  Tags: education, television, history, timeline

• Gaga for Librarians - Funny Video for Educators

  Tags: education, video, school, technology, resources, tools, librarian, research

• TechConnect

  TechConnect is a peer networking community for Education Information Technology (IT) Professionals. Members log on to exchange knowledge, ask questions, and share experiences with other Education Information Technology peers. Connect to colleagues, create interest groups, and access member-only resources. The TechConnect community is developed and focused specifically for Education Information Technology Professionals (private school as well as public school) and is only offered to those users.

  Tags: education, techconnect, technology, IT

• How to Create Screencasts for Teaching and Learning Using Jing

  Have you ever wanted to create short “how to” video for your students to use for homework, remembering facts, and solving math problems.
  
  How often have your students stated, “I could not complete the homework assignment, because I could not remember the steps and no one could help me.”
  
  Well the answer is to create a screencast or video for posting on your class wiki or blog for students to view at home or anywhere else they have web access.

  Tags: educational, technology, how, to, create, jing, Math, online, tools, Science, screencasts, videocasts, web, 20

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A Story About a Hat

Part of my life in the spring is track and field. I ran in high school, coached for a few years and now officiate. Officiating is fun, and is a good break from life, generally the kids are good, and the atmosphere tends to be low key...with the exception of some coaches.

Part of officiating in NYS, we need to wear a uniform, as any sport officials wear uniforms. Ours are tan pants, white shirt with logo, blue jacket with logo, and a hat with logo. The hat is optional. I bought a hat last year, I was very happy. I like wearing hats, it does surprise people that I am not bald.

So the beginning of the season starts, I have all of my stuff, shirt, jacket, starting pistol, whistle, clipboards, rule book, measuring tapes, but no hat. Where is my hat, I searched, and searched, why it was not with my other stuff I do not know. Dang it! I am also too cheap to buy a new hat, why spend another 20 dollars or so, when it is here somewhere. So, I told my wonderful wife, that I would probably find it the day after the season ended. I made it through the season without a hat. I did not find it the day after the season, but two days after the season ended.

Where was it? Why in a box in the garage. Why not? Started to clean the garage, going through stuff, and there it was, with tie-down straps and some plastic. I cannot figure this out. I think it must have tried to run away, and only made it that far, or the squirrels thought it was a big blue nut, and put it with their stash of black walnuts. Would say that life can be funny sometimes, but that was not funny. Sort of.

Diigo bookmarks for today 06/02/2010

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  Tags: education, video
• Technological Literacy « Sean Banville's Blog
  Two questions sprang to mind upon reading Tom’s words:
  
  1. How literate / illiterate am I?
  2. How literate do we need to be?
  Tags: shifting-education, studentteacher, leadership, Admin, mycomments, newliteracy
• How is Continuing Education Evolving to Meet the 21st Century Demands
  The future of continuing education is still evolving. Who knows how all the technological applications and demands on adults will change as we move further into the 21st Century. Remember where education was just 50 years ago or even 20 years ago.
  
  Tags: continuing, education, outlook, future, just, in, time, learning, do, it, yourself, colleges, universities
• 5 Top Things to Consider During Continuing Education Efforts
  How to build professional, personal, social, and lifelong learning networks is the focal point of this post.
  Tags: continuing, education, outlook, future, learning, 5, professional, network, social

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