Digital Curriculum Sources

Digital curriculum has many advantages over traditional, analog (paper-based) curriculum. If it is web-based, it can be readily accessible from any Internet-connected computer, can be accessible to people with disabilities, can be readily updated, and is often more current. Often and increasingly, it is free! If you have other digital curriculum sources not included on this list, feel free to add them here. (The wiki password is "att")

Free Digital Curriculum

1. The English WikiPedia
2. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
3. Google Earth - Google Earth Hacks!
4. Roy: Tale of a Singing Zebra (free multimedia book)
5. Google News
6. Global Voices Online
7. Kitzu: Multimedia project resources
8. Geography Games and Cool Stuff from My Wonderful World!
9. American Memory from the US Library of Congress
10. Virtual Frog Dissection: NetFrog (Univ of Virginia)
11. Marcopolo
12. BookPALS Storyline Online

Pluto (IPA: /ˈpluːtəʊ/), designated (134340) Pluto in the Minor Planet Center catalogue, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and the tenth largest body orbiting the Sun. It orbits between 29 and 49 AU from the Sun, and was the first Kuiper Belt object to be discovered. Approximately one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto is primarily composed of rock and ice. It has an eccentric orbit that is highly inclined with respect to the planets and takes it closer to the Sun than Neptune during a portion of its orbit. Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon, could be considered a binary system because they are closer in size than any of the other known celestial pair combinations in the solar system, and because the barycentre of their orbits does not lie within either body. However, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has yet to formalize a definition for binary dwarf planets, so Charon is currently regarded as a moon of Pluto. Two smaller moons, Nix and Hydra, were discovered in 2005. Pluto is smaller than several of the natural satellites or moons in our solar system (see the list of solar system objects by radius).

At School :: MY Access!®

With MY Access!®, students are motivated to write more and attain higher scores on statewide writing assessments. By using MY Access! in the classroom, teachers can provide students with the practice they need to improve their writing skills. The program's powerful scoring engine grades students' essays instantly and provides targeted feedback, freeing teachers from grading thousands of papers by hand and giving them more time to conduct differentiated instruction and curriculum planning.

Welcome to Moodle!

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.

Constructionism--the N word as opposed to the V word--shares constructivism's connotation of learning as "building knowledge structures" irrespective of the circumstances of the learning. It then adds the idea that this happens especially felicitously in a context where the learner is consciously engaged in constructing a public entity, whether it's a sand castle on the beach or a theory of the universe. And this in turn implies a ramified research program which is the real subject of this introduction and of the volume itself. But in saying all this I must be careful not to transgress the basic tenet shared by the V and the N forms: If one eschews pipeline models of transmitting knowledge in talking among ourselves as well as in theorizing about classrooms, then one must expect that I will not be able to tell you my idea of constructionism.

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Reasons To Use These Tools

Why Use Google Notebook? - Accessibility: Web-based wordprocessor, accessible from any Internet-connected computer - Citation Aid: Automatically cites web links for later bibliography / works cited pages - Researcher's Dream: Ideal for harvesting images and collecting research project sources / quotations - Formatting Options: Permits rich text formatting and hyperlinking - Flexible Organization: Add section titles and create multiple notebooks - Drag and Drop: Move notes and section titles by dragging and dropping in your browser - Collaborative: Offers collaborative options with others: Let them privately view or jointly author with you (not publicly editable like a wiki can be) - Publishable: Can immediately post to the web, also printable - Searchable: If you have it in a Google notebook, you can locate it with a search query - Free!

Tips for running your group

Ultimately it is the Admins that decide what the rules are for their group, but if you have been made an admin of a Flickr group, here are some suggestions for keeping your group happy: