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Educating for Global Citizenship Home - Educating for Global Citizenship
A "wetpaint wiki created to allow students and teachers from around the world to share their experience about what makes safe and peaceful schools" (Purpose of wiki)
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Introduces free service, points out FAQs and tutorials, users' discussion space, and lesson plan database
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Report: Blended learning could hit or miss | Policy | eSchoolNews.com
Covers "'The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning,' by Michael B. Horn, co-founder and executive director of education at the Innosight Institute, and Heather Clayton Staker, a senior research fellow for education practice at the institute, [which] describes how blended learning can affect education, but why it also could fall short of its potential" (¶3).
- According to the report, blended learning, which it defines as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace,” has grown exponentially over the past decade.
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Yakushima - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Well-rounded overview with links to NHK media and World Heritage Forest Programme activities
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Yakushima travel guide - Wikitravel
- part of a museum complex at the base of the road leading to Yakusugiland and the Arakawa trail to Jomon sugi
- A short walk away is the World Heritage Conservation Center
- the steep trail to and from Jomon sugi does not go through the most impressive forest on the island. To see the silent, mossy, primeval forest pictured in the tourist brochures, the better destination is the Shiratani Unsuikyo forest, and it doesn't require an early start and hours of tough hiking to get there
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"[L]anguage education policy [in Korea] needs greater coordination so that it can effectively promote individual development and the national interest" (¶1).
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"a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics"
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How to Use Google Documents: Video Series | eHow Videos
"Learn how to use Google documents to organize personal and business documents and spreadsheets ..." (You are viewing an eHow Video Series, ¶1).
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"timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels" (4Teachers Family of Tools, ¶1)
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Text 2 Mind Map - The text-to-mind-map converter
"Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps.
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University Guide to Going Google
"This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni ready and excited about Google Apps" (University Edition, ¶1). There is a counter-part, K-12 Edition.
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"EmbedPlus lets you easily upgrade video embeds with enhanced playback and relevant content" (banner, 2011.02.16).
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"This web page is for people interested in learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols. This is a useful skill for learners and teachers of English who may want to check the pronunciation of a word in a dictionary. Use the phonetic chart to learn the sounds of English. Then do a quiz to see how well you have learnt them" (The Phonetic Chart, ¶1).
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Reverse Outlines | Explorations of Style: A Blog about Academic Writing
First post on one of "five key strategies for improving academic writing" (¶1).
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Wayne Mackintosh on an Open Educational Resources University | LearnCentral
A LearnCentral "webinar with Wayne Mackintosh on designing an "Open Educational Resources" (OER) university and creating free learning for all students worldwide" (Event Details, Detail[ed] Description, ¶1).
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Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources
"The [OECD's OER] project analyses and maps the scale and scope of initiatives regarding “open educational resources” (OER) in terms of their purpose, content, and funding" (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources, ¶2).
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Online Education Database - Online Colleges and Universities | OEDb
"OEDb currently contains reviews of 1,025 programs from 83 accredited online colleges. Unlike other leading online education directories, our database only lists accredited online colleges ..." (Welcome to the Online Education Database, ¶1).
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"TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version.... It is free for non-commercial searching" (home page, 2011.02.14), and there is a Firefox plug-in (Introducing TinEye [video]).
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Nordic River: TextFlow Redliner
"a cloud based document comparison and redlining tool making it easier to share, delegate and collaborate" (Document comparison in the cloud, ¶1, 2010.02.14)
Sunday, February 20, 2011
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