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Using Pictures to Teach Narrative Writing with Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Motivate your students to write with pictures in this culminating activity for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Narrative writing is difficult (nearly impossible) to teach adolescents, but rather than pulling your hair out try using a photograph depecting segregation or reverse segregation.
Trina Allen
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American Libraries and RFID Tags
RFID Chips for library books
Lance Winslow
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Online Learning - What Makes an Online Learning System?
Online learning systems follow a definite structure intended to enhance instruction and learning. This article considers those elements necessary for an online learning system.
Robin Henry
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Digital Natives and Immigrants
Perhaps the least understood and least appreciated notion among those who design and deliver education today is the fact that our students have changed radically. A really big discontinuity has take...
Marc Prensky
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Water Filtration - How Your Drinking Water Is Kept Fresh
We are fortunate to have such clean drinking water in the United States.
Lance Winslow
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Online Learning - The Case for Proactive Management
The belief among some online learning providers is that technology will handle it all. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It is as necessary to manage online learning as it is a classroom delivery ie, in a hands-on, proactive way if you aspire to quality outcomes. This article compares two university lecturers, one who abdicates his management role and the other who is proactive. Find out which you would prefer?
Robin Henry
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Lego - A History Of These Building Blocks Of Imagination
LEGO bricks. Creativity. Childhood. They go together like Mickey Mouse and Disney, wizards and Harry Potter. LEGO has been a part of childhood for more than three generations. Nearly everyone under 50 has played with these building blocks of imagination. There is no telling how many engineers and scientists were spawned by these plastic building blocks.
Royce Armstrong
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Memorizing and Committing Information to Memory
In Homeschooling Today Magazine there was a very interesting article that discussed how people store information learned. A great quote, which I have always believed was this; “The ability to remember depends less on how much you have stored in your memory than it does on how you stored it”.
Lance Winslow
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Help! Finding information online
With so many different ways today to find information online, it can sometimes be hard to know where to go to first.
Ryan Fyfe
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Capitalist Philosophers, the genius of modern business
All to often we criminalize and character assassinate our over achievers. In the business world it is no different. We attack those superstars, which deliver to our civilizations those things we need and desire.
Lance Winslow
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