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Study Island [|www.studyisland.com] – online standards-based learning programs designed specifically to help students master the skills and knowledge aligned to state standards. Teacher Tube – [|www.teachertube.com] – free online public educational video sharing site. Community members may upload instructional videos, along with related files, comment on videos, create and participate in groups. Turnitin – [|www.turnitin.com] – plagiarism prevention, Turnitin helps educators and students take full advantage of the Internet’s educational potential. [|www.vocabulary.com] - Free K-12 interactive vocabulary resource and enrichment Web site. SAFARI Montage Video-On-Demand and Digital Media Management solution $$$ ** Star-Online ** – Online Professional development – I have a few free licenses [|www.star-online.org] Lit2GO http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/index.htm **Lit2Go** is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html  Hyper History   HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of [|synchronoptic] lifelines, timelines, and maps.  http://tblr.ed.asu.edu/pt3/index.html NETS DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY –NETS-Based Lessons Components, Videos Online •   A Web-based collection of digital videos demonstrating effective use of technology in the PreK–12 classrooms and in teacher preparation programs (based on the NETS lessons developed by the International Society for Technology in Education) •   http://tblr.ed.asu.edu/bitter/Home/?w=592  
 * Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
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Remember to take advantage of the special trial subscription we're offering NECC attendees. Just log on to [|www.brainpop.com/necc2008] by August 31 and sign up for your free 30-day trial subscription. It's the perfect way to explore [|BrainPOP], [|BrainPOP Jr.], and [|BrainPOP Español]. http://www.edutopia.org/ Videos, Staff Development, Lessons, etc.

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Moursund’s Latest Free Book-|http://www.edutopia.org/10-big-ideas-better- [|Becoming More Responsible for your Education][| .Many of you know about Dave Moursund’s many years of work with ISTE, including his 1974 work in starting the publication that is now Leading and Learning With Technology. Since his retirement from ISTE and from the University of Oregon, he has written a number of books that he makes available free on the Web. He has also started a Web site devoted to improving education for students of all ages throughout the world. See]http://iae-pedia.org/[| .His newest free 95-page book is written especially for young teenagers, but is also of use for preservice and inservice teachers, and for parents.Moursund, D. G. (2008). Becoming more responsible for your education. Eugene, Oregon: Information Age Education. To download the book in PDF or Microsoft Word format, go to]http://iae-pedia.org/Education_for_Increasing_Expertise

[|The book and its accompanying website focus on two major ideas for improving our educational system:1. Facilitating students to take steadily increasing responsibility for their own education.2. Emphasizing student learning for building expertise—the knowledge and skills to solve problems and accomplish tasks using their own physical and mental capabilities in conjunction with: A) contemporary tools designed to aid physical and mental capabilities; B) the physical and mental capabilities of other people; and C) the accumulated knowledge of the human race.The philosophy underlying the book is that to improve education, we must give more power to students and to teachers. See Moursund’s recent article on this topic at]http://iae-pedia.org/Empowering_Learners_and_Teachers[| .You know that Mathematics is often thought of as a language, and that we want students to learn to communicate in the language of mathematics. Somewhat similarly, Information and Communication Technology can be thought of as a language, and we want students to learn to fluently communicate in this language. If this idea interests you, you will benefit by reading Moursund’s recent article]http://iae-pedia.org/Communicating_in_the_Language_of_Mathematics[| .]