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Here's a story coming out of Arkansas - the Aspirnaut Initiative, launched in April 2007 in the Sheridan School District, equips students with laptop computers and iPods and allows them to take online math and science courses while traveling to and from school. This pilot program spans three years and seven objectives. These are to establish: A Differentiated Program for High-Ability Students A One-Room Satellite School in the Community The Concept of “School-Begins-on-the-Bus” Teaching Awards A Professional Development Program for Secondary School Teachers College and Secondary School Scholarships A Non-Profit Organization to Secure and Administer Funds The Aspirnaut Initiative School Begins on the Bus Arkansas News Bureau article How could this work in your district?

Here’s a short video from the very clever folks at Common Craft on the topic of web search strategies:

Preventing all plagiarism all the time is impossible, but there are steps you can take to eliminate it from your classroom. The Internet is an endless resource for information, and that means it can also be an endless source for both intentional and inadvertent plagiarism. While preventing all plagiarism all the time is impossible, but there are steps you can take to eliminate it from your classroom. Set guidelines. Discuss with your students what defines plagiarism, opinions, assertions, and arguments and clearly define for them what constitutes plagiarism in your classroom. Describe intellectual property. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines intellectual property as “creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.” Explore the concept of intellectual ownership with your students. Remind your students of the concept of ci...

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Rural Communities Working Together to Enhance Student Learning Registration Link Conference Flyer Keynote and Plenary Speakers The Rural Strategy Committee is pleased to invite Rural Educators and Partner Groups to our third annual conference: “Rural Communities Working Together to Enhance Student Learning” to be held at the Sheraton Wall Hotel, Vancouver, BC from October 22-24, 2008. While the conference continues to examine the significant opportunities and challenges facing rural educators and communities, this year’s keynote speakers Calvin Helin and Russell Bishop will bring special attention to issues and approaches to support success for Aboriginal students. Plenary speakers Leyton Schnellert and Faye Brownlie return to continue their conversations about teaching and learning in diverse classrooms. Of course, almost twenty speakers from across the province have been asked to present their ‘rural strategies’. Embedded in our conference event will be the New Rural Teachers (NRT) c...

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilities”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations. Here is one of their online offerings - “Free Tools for Universal Design for Learning in Literacy”

Change Maker - http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg/ Counting Money - http://www.hbschool.com/activity/counting_money/ Lemonade Stand - http://www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade/ Math At The Mall - http://www.mathplayground.com/mathatthemall1.html Money Instructor - http://www.moneyinstructor.com/games.asp US Mint For Kids - http://www.usmint.gov/kids/ Young Investors - http://www.younginvestor.com/

The Ontario Action Researcher is a freely accessible, full-text, peer-reviewed electronic journal intended for elementary, secondary, and university teachers who are concerned with exploring the unity between educational research and practice. While their primary aim is to serve the needs of educators in Ontario, hey welcome readership and submissions from elsewhere in Canada and the world.

Hello folks - I came across the Educational Origami blog and wiki today, and it is well worth a visit. The wiki has a lot of information on 21st Century Learning, rubrics for use with web 2.0 and instructional technology tools and more. Let me know what you think. cheers

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