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Category Archives: fun/free stuff
Celebrate Teen Tech Week and win a min-grant for your library (contest)
Young Adult Library Services Association Offers Mini-Grants for Teen Tech Week Teen Tech Week is designed to help teens learn to become efficient and ethical users of technology, especially in a library setting. Teen Tech Week also encourages teens to … Continue reading
New - A Parents’ Guide to Facebook
Anne Collier and Larry Magid of Connect Safely.org have released a timely new booklet, A Parents’ Guide to Facebook. This link will take you to a site where you can not only freely download the PDF booklet, but also an … Continue reading
Posted in digital citizenship, fun/free stuff
Tagged digital citizenship, parents, youth risk
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Shipwrecks, sunken treasure, lost civilizations - nearly free stuff for classrooms
The Museum of Underwater Archaeology (MUA) is pleased to offer several resources for classroom teachers. This page provides information on our “Holding History in Your Hand” kit which includes a written curriculum presenting the six steps of the archaeological process, … Continue reading
TEDx Redmond - for kids, by kids
TEDxRedmond is getting closer! This special event for kids, by kids, is shaping up to be a remarkable day! TEDxRedmond will feature speakers who have done amazing things. They have climbed mountains, started successful businesses, written books, raised millions for … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, fun/free stuff, Generation YES, In the news, student voice
Tagged speaking, TED, TEDx, TEDXREDMOND, youth
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“Power a Bright Future” contest
From Clorox - For many schools around the country, back-to-school this year is a lesson in economics they’d rather not have. Education budgets have been cut nationwide and valuable school programs such as sports, music and art are being hit … Continue reading
Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year
The new school year is here for many teachers. For those who haven’t started school yet, the new school year will be here soon. If you’ve set the goal of trying something new in your classroom this year (shouldn’t that … Continue reading
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Tagged education, educational technology, student, teacher, tech support, tools
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Back to school - games for collaboration and teamwork
Of course we want to encourage students to collaborate and work in teams - but how does this actually happen? Here’s one idea to kickstart that idea and keep it going all year long - games. But not just any … Continue reading
Posted in fun/free stuff, student voice
Tagged collaboration, cooperation, education, games, teamwork
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Exciting events at the ISTE conference
ISTE (formerly known as NECC) is the largest national educational technology conference in the U.S. This year it will be in Denver, Colorado June 27-30. Generation YES will be there in full force with a booth (#855) and other events. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adora Svitak, Dennis Harper, event, free, gary stager, Generation YES, GenYES, ISTE, ISTE10, ISTE2010, NECC, pre-conference, sylvia martinez, TechYES, workshop
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This Wednesday: Science of the Winter Olympics Webinar
Sounds cool! From the Learning Games Network: As part of our Learning Games webinar series, we invite you to join us this Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 for Olympics Science: Online Resources for the Classroom from NBC Learn. Description: On February … Continue reading
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Tagged chemistry, Learning Games Network, lesson plans, lessons, NBC Learn, NSF, Olympics, physics, Science, sports, video
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Free technology and education conference - C3 2010
The Capitol Region ISTE affiliate (CRSTE) is hosting a free online conference on education and technology called C3 - CRSTE Cyber Conference 2010 every evening from Feb 21 - March 5, 2010 . You don’t have to be from the … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, CRSTE, educational technology, free, ISTE, online, student leadership, student voice
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