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  • Internet Safety

    98 members Latest Activity: Nov 9 How are our discussions about safety on the internet evolving as students (and adults) become increasingly connected through social networking and oth…

  • Math Teachers

    40 members Latest Activity: 6 hours ago Welcome, all teachers of mathematics! Please join in the discussions and use the wiki link below to add to our resources.

  • 21st Century Skills

    50 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago What do we need to do in order to better equip our students to become true leaders in a "flat world" that has both exciting opportunities and challeng…

  • Physics Teachers

    2 members Latest Activity: Sep 24 A place to share instructional methodologies, favorite labs and demos, projects and resources.

  • Learning in Virtual Worlds

    3 members Latest Activity: Oct 20 This group will explore the possibilities of education in virtual worlds.

  • Battle Ground Academy

    33 members Latest Activity: Apr 30 BGA is a co-ed k-12 school located just south of Nashville, TN, with approximately 1,000 students.

  • Teaching Processing

    4 members Latest Activity: Sep 8 A group for educators who use Processing in their classes. Processing is a programming language and environment for learning about computers, and cre…

  • Great Books for Middle School Readers

    10 members Latest Activity: Nov 10 Let's share the titles of books our kids are currently enjoying. What books won't they put down? Any suggestions for readers in grades 6, 7 or 8?

  • 1st Grade

    4 members Latest Activity: Jul 22

  • Administration

    124 members Latest Activity: Oct 26 Whether you are a principal or the tech director, you have ideas! Let's share them here.

  • Music Teachers

    14 members Latest Activity: Aug 13 Independent School Music Teachers K-12 Choral/General/Band

  • First Class Users

    73 members Latest Activity: Oct 21 A place for First Class Users to share ideas and information .

  • English Teachers

    47 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago This group is for discussions, reflections, and resources for the teaching & learning of English in Independent Schools.

  • Professional Development

    87 members Latest Activity: Oct 6 "It's better to be on the bottom of a ladder you want to climb, than to be on the top of one you don't."

  • AISL

    3 members Latest Activity: May 7 Association of Independent School Libraries

  • Middle School Heads

    5 members Latest Activity: Oct 5 A place for middle school Heads to share resources, discuss issues, collaborate and offer support.

  • TECH TALK

    85 members Latest Activity: Oct 21 Discuss ideas and issues that confront us everyday in managing Information Technology

  • World Languages Teachers

    42 members Latest Activity: Aug 10 Let's discuss current issues in world language teaching and learning (previously known as "Foreign Language".)

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Whether you are a principal or the tech director, you have ideas! Let's share them here.
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Ilana Laurence, Amy Pica, Ross Dunning Mulry and 1 more joined  Independent School Educators network
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Thanks Cassandra, I have been playing phone tag with the Great Source Representative for Math in Focus. Just to get to her number tooks some doing as the web site directed me to a person at Harcourt who explained they were no longer handling Great...
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A group dedicated to talking about all kinds of diversity issues and sharing ideas and resouces.
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Hi Sister Elizabeth - There is a fair amount of info on our website about our 9-yr-old 1:1 laptop program (www.urbanschool.org/laptops). Also our Tech Director Howard Levin has some information on his site (www.howardlevin.com). Sarah is right --...
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RZONZ Internet Safety 8 year plan: Grades K-8 teach APPROPRIATE USE with our private online tools. High School: begin unblocking public resources.
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Math in Focus is based on My Pals Are Here, currently in use in Singapore. Primary Mathematics was based on an older syllabus in Singapore that was used there until 2001 or so. Although the content for Math in Focus is very similar to what is taug...
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Welcome, all teachers of mathematics! Please join in the discussions and use the wiki link below to add to our resources.
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I've attached the rationale letter we send out every year to the families of students entering our laptop program. I wrote a short book about 1:1 programs about 7 years ago. A lot of the information is dated but I think the material related to wh...
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Hi Sister Elizabeth, I recently updated my rationale statement for our 1:1 program. While this is much longer than a mission statement, it may be of interest... http://www.battlegroundacademy.org/podium/default.aspx?t=105664 It draws from a few so...
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We're planning to offer such a class next year to our 7th-8th graders and are looking into VE software alternatives. We are PC based. Does anyone have user based comments on Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, or Adobe Elements? Or any other software yo...
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I added it again because the video wasn't showing up for everyone--this is a different source, Viddler.
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Sarah Hanawald added 2 videos.
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Jim, Great surveys! Of the two the MS survey seems a little stronger. What I feel is missing from the HS survey is questions that capture the ubiquitous fluid use of computers that develops over time in 1:1 schools. For instance, I see a lot of s...
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A few years ago I created a graphic to represent the "essential objectives" of a MS laptop program. You can see it at http://www.k12converge.com/?p=201 Jim Heynderickx
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