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The P assionate Redheads invite you to attend our Purple Passion Masked

Ball on Thursday, April 8 from 6:00pmSLT to 8:00pmSLT at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selby/67/204/56. DJ Shockwave will

be spinning the tunes at Club Cutlass for this event. This event is

formal, so please wear your tuxedos and…

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Reflection on "A Vision of K-12 Students Today”…

If you haven't already submitted a proposal for a presentation or workshop at FETC 2011, do it now! The deadline is Friday, April 2.

Last year, FETC had attendees from every state and about a dozen countries. You hear terrific keynote speakers, and many of the sessions are led by educators who have insightful and cutting edge ideas about using technology in student learning.

Here's the link to apply online:…

Rather than update my links page I will start using the blog function to put up info

Ok. This is might sound lame, and it won’t take you more than two seconds to guess that I am an English teacher. Today, my classes took a day away from the computers to do research. We actually used those bound paper piles in the library known as books. I will admit that, at times through the day, it was painful, mostly because the computers were within ten feet at all times, and the research might have been easier…

I am looking for a collaborator to look over my curriculum mapping that I have started on Wiki. I am new to classroom 2.0, Wikis and curriculum mapping. Any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

http://larandaskaggs.wikispaces.com/Curriculum+Mapping

I teach middle school math and I am trying to do some curriculum mapping by using a wiki. I am new at this so i would like to collaborate with some other teachers. I am specifically doing 8th grade math for the 3rd 9 weeks. My wiki is http://michalsmath.wikispaces.com Thanks!!

There is a discussion on Collaborative Intelligence going

on Future of Education Forum:http://www.futureofeducation.com/forum/topics/collaborative-intelligence.

I was informed about it by Steve Hargadon. May be some poeple would like to join it?

I have read about Scvngr a few times, but yesterday finally decided to give it a try in class. We are studying Shakespeare right now which is not a favorite topic of study for most students. I hoped that by using something like Scvngr might engage them in the subject. Boy howdy, did it do the job! The students loved it.

Basically, I used Scvngr to set up a scavenger hunt within a copy of text that we read in…

This chapter dealt with the mediation of knowledge in a cross content manner through six specific types of knowledge or skills needed for critical reasoning and comprehension:

Semantic Skills - word knowledge of the particular teminology of a given subject area.

Mathematical Skills - application of mathematical concepts to social studies…

7th Grade Math Teacher shows clear learning outcome improvements while engaging students with this interactive education technology.

As announced last week, one of our two winners in…