Teaching

//Goal: Professional educators will be supported individually and in teams by technology that connects them to data, content, resources, expertise, and learning experiences that can empower and inspire them to provide more effective teaching for all learners.//
 * Teaching: Prepare and Connect

Teaching with MultiMedia to reach all learners:
 * ActivInspire: Free Software and a bank of free lessons:
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 * Advanced Inspire Creation: Music in the Curriculum Interactive boards are not just for teachers!
 * How to use Containers with ActivInspire: []
 * Viking Sites to use for Teaching:
 * @http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/
 * Viking Quest
 * Viking Smithsonian
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 * [|Digital History Sit]
 * [|Animated Atlas American History]

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Virtual Classrooms for Educators Online learning communities - professional learning that is collaborative, coherent, and continuous and that blends more effective in-person courses and workshops with the expanded opportunities, immediacy, and convenience enabled by online learning
 * Inquiry Driven Education
 * Students as Expert Lerners - Our job is not to teach but to help our students learn
 * Creating a collaborative learning community
 * Creating a generation of innovators - stimulating innovative ideas and creativity
 * Math Forum instructional resources, including Math Tools, a searchable community library of interactive lessons, activities, and support materials
 * TAPPED IN place for teachers come to reflect on practice, experiment with new content, share approaches, take online courses,
 * A guide to Twitter for Teachers ask a question in 140 characters and get a quick reponse
 * PBS TeacherLine - online courses for teachers
 * Teacher TV - 15 minute archived demonstrations of teaching practice
 * Classroom 2.0 a social network for teachers started by Steve Hagadorn
 * Open Education Resources:teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use
 * ASCD online professional development courses
 * MIT OpenCourseware free lecture notes, exams and video from MIT faculty

Portfolios: Create a Digital Portfolio
 * Example of a Portfolio created in GoogleSites