Amanda Kenuam's Blog – April 2010 Archive (12)

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MangoMon is celebrating the launch of their newly redesigned website with an art contest! If you know students who love to draw, this is the contest for them! Expressing ideas through art is a great way to enhance creativity. That's why we want to see how creative your students can be! Submit any artwork from your students for a chance for them to win some great prizes.

The contest is free to…

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Merit Pay Gone Wrong

This week's #edchat, "How should successful & innovative teaching and teachers be rewarded?" was incredibly appropriate in light of Florida's controversial Senate Bill 6 this week that faced strong opposition and even…

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Authentic Practice with the Writing Process

Scholastic's Kids are Authors Contest is an annual contest for grades K-8 designed to motivate young authors to use their reading, writing, and artistic skills to create and publish their own books. Students are encouraged to work in teams of three or more to write and illustrate their own fiction or…

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Last week's Blogger of the Week, Cyndi Danner-Kuhn, took some time out of teaching and blogging to reflect on her love of learning and technology tools in an interview. To learn more about Cyndi Danner-Kuhn's blog Technology Bits, Bytes, and Nibbles: News, Tips, Tricks & Resources… Continue

LEGO Smart Contest Builds Problem Solvers

Calling all teachers, home educators, after-school program directors, and any other educators working with k-12 students - are your students LEGO smart? "Being LEGO^® Smart^TM is more than

building with LEGO bricks. It's having the ability to work in teams,

solve problems, and create solutions. It means understanding key

science, technology,…

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Shelly Blake-Plock is a progressive educator and blogger for Teach Paperless. Blake-Plock blogs regularly on "all aspects of paperless, digital, and technological culture as it relates to education." In addition to his blog, Blake-Plock teaches high…

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National Library Week, first sponsored in 1958, is an annual celebration of the contributions of America's libraries and librarians sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across

the country.

Our nation's school, academic, public and special libraries make an impact in the lives of students today more than ever and serve as crucial technology hubs for people in need of free…

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Apple's iPod has transformed the way people interact with music as well

as the music industry itself. Anyone who has stepped in a classroom in

the last few years can see that the iPod has also transformed our

students. The trick is not fearing this technology, but harnessing it as

a powerful tool for education. The iPod has the power to transform

education as it has the music industry. Here are a few ways you… Continue

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