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Background Briefing
Writing thesis statements is difficult. Writing good thesis statements even harder. That’s why practice helps. By combining a rich resource with a simple thinking scaffold, you can regularly exercise the thesis muscle (gluteus facts-a-must?). Although the programs are long, ABC’s Background Briefing is a fine example of deep, first person research in a “radio [...]
TagGalaxy is an incredible mashup using images from Flickr and a really cool Flash interface. You can use a series of single work search terms to explore how people have photographed and tagged the world. Below is a combination of searching for “Culture” then “People”, then, to get close-ups, “Portrait.” Whenever you are doing conceptual [...]
Why Wordpress.com?
Wordpress is the best free blogging software and it just keeps getting better. There are three main ways to get a Wordpress blog:
from Wordpress.com
through a Web Host with a Wordpress.org installation
with a free educational version of Wordpress MU (multi-user)
After many years helping educators get started with a ClassPortal / Blog / Web page, [...]
Background
Pageflakes is the best way to access a wide range of fresh digital content. It does this by being an RSS Feed Reader (want a good video explanation?), but it goes about it in a very Web 2.0 way. The IWB Blog Pageflakes feed tries to demonstrate how you can access audio podcasts, video lectures [...]
Alert: Be sure to visit the Look to Learn site
Introduction
One of the best ways for students of every age to develop greater cognitive sophistication is to join in a shared looking activity with at least one facilitating adult. As infants, children sat in our laps as we read picture books together. Today we [...]
After Registering and Logging-in, you are a participant in the IWB Blog. You may want to post an activity or share a success in using an IWB with students. Because this blog made with Wordpress, it’s easy!
From the Dashboard, you can add a post in one of three ways. Click the image here to see [...]
