Educational Origami

Educational Technology Clearinghouse
http://etc.usf.edu/
This is a interesting site that is worth a visit. It has a variety of resources and materials for a wide range of subjects These are further broken down into year levels:

Arts: Dance
Arts: Music
Arts: Theatre
Arts: Visual Art
Career & Technology
Foreign Language
Health
Language Arts
Mathematics
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies

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How do we take measure of ICT integration or implementation? Its not something we can score on a scale of 1 to 10 or measure as achieving with excellence or just passing. The benchmarks for every  school and every classroom are different.
In preparing our students for the 21st Century, we must prepare them for the [...]

Thanks for the brilliant comments and suggestions about teh 21st Century Teacher. I have played with the concept some more and made some changes.

 
To make it easier to change and update this I have posted it to the wiki.
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
Thanks To Sheryl, Kim, David and Rod for their feedback, spell checking, suggestions and comments. Please don’t [...]

This is a great video.
The video starts by making a scary commentry on the state of education. Of the 55 industry sectors examined in their level of ict intensiveness education ranked 55th below Coal Mining. Steven Hebbell contributes to the video and the reflections.
Some of the comments are insightful and challenging like
“The death of education [...]

USHMM is the the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
One of the latest resources they have is a video clip comprised of images of the SS who ran Auschwitz. The clip talks you through the life of the SS from their own images. These are striking and unique. You get a vision of people who happily [...]

We have heard alot about the 21st Century Learner. We know that they are:

Collaborative
Adaptive
Information, media and technology savvy
Communicators
immediate and instant
require instant gratification

But what about the 21st Century Teacher, what are the charactoristics we would expect to see in a 21st Century Educator. We know they are student centric, wholistic, they are teaching about how to [...]

This was twittered this recently by Helen Otway. Smart Board Resources in the classroom.
This is quite a neat site the page lists a series of smartboard resources for various subject areas. Its worth a visit and a forage through the selection. The resources range across the school spectrum from K to 13 and cover the [...]

Recently, a good friend of mine (thanks Mark) gave me a old desktop.  Its a celeron 1700 with 256Mb of ram, so nothing spectacular, but a usable and useful machine never the less. I have wanted for a while to have a linux box to play on. So when opportunity presents one must take it. [...]

I must be honest, I have not played seriously in second life. My lack of participation does not come from any philosophical agenda, from any technical impediment or from anything other than time. I think 2nd Life has great potential, but I don’t have time to exploit this potential.

Second life allows its participants to [...]

Just picked this up from twitter. Its an excellent post by James Linzel called a few things for educators.
He’s gone through and looked at some excellent resources for science teachers and for IT too. Here is teh URL of his post - http://www.utechtips.com/?p=702
here are some of the key links, but please read his post [...]