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Entries from August 31st, 2009

Are you xtranormal?

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Content- Cross Discipline, Video/movies

I know you are!  But have you been to their site (www.xtranormal.com) recently?  There are several new backgrounds and players.  I’ve had some questions on the best way to present these films.  While you easily embed your film to a website (blog, wiki, etc), it has been more of a challenge to insert xtranormal to [...]

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School through the eyes of the K-12 student

August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · 21st Century Skills, Classroom, Content - Social Studies

With the first day of school  just around the corner, I thought this clip might provide something for reflection. How will you guide your students this year?  Will you change their vision?

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Pies and Pizza

August 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Content - Math

Mention pies, pizza, and math- and I think fractions.  If your students don’t have the same reaction (or flinch at the word fractions), maybe this site will help.  Guaranteach has free fraction resources .  While the rest of their site is subscriptions based, the fraction videos are free. While the video are grouped in general topics [...]

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Before there was mapquest

August 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Content - Social Studies

A visual representation of military strategies and battles is the goal of History Animated.  Currently many of the Revolutionary, Civil, and Pacific war are available.  (You can sign up for their mailing list  to get updates of new animations.)  While the site does allow you to download, I had some trouble, yet the links did [...]

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