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Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Teachers Get Resourceful With Open Content

Thu, 07 May 2009 13:33:31 -0700

Leaving their textbooks to gather dust, Houston middle school teacher Ardath A. Stewart and her students studied science last spring by assembling much of their curriculum on a class "wiki," an open-source community Web site. The materials included students' written postings on class topics, as well as projects, grading rubrics, and discussion questions that Stewart prepared or obtained from teachers in other parts of Texas and the United States.

Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Teachers Get Resourceful With Open Content

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:00:58 -0700

The Texas teacher is part of a small but growing movement of K-12 educators that is latching on to educational resources that are "open," or free for others to use, change, and republish on Web sites that promote sharing. The open-content movement is fueled partly by digital-creation tools that make it easy to create "mash-ups," or digital medleys of content of various types.

Educators and education-oriented groups advocating open content say it saves schools money by spreading the time and expense of developing curricular resources over many contributors.

GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #4: GeekMoms! | GeekDad | Wired.com

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:56:12 -0800

Mom needs presents too! The various GeekDads have come up their best holiday gift ideas for GeekMoms. For more suggestions, check out our previous and subsequent guides, in the right-hand column.

MST Education Links

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:28:01 -0800

This page provides links to curricular resources available on the web in Math, Science and Technology. Some of these sites may provide suitable teaching and learning materials to supplement available teaching resources or provide references for students. Most of the Learn more... links will take you directly to the actual website which opens in a new browser window.

Education Weeks Digital Directions: The Open-Content Movement

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:31:09 -0800

The Open Classroom: List of twitter resources uncovered during recent bout with research

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:31:22 -0700

Great resource! It's a collection of narratives about how Twitter has allowed successful collaboration. Five resources for how to use Twitter in education for both secondary school and higher education.

Laughing off the Zeitgeist: Educational Podcasts and Open Course

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:45:32 -0700

With the annual podcast awards coming up, I've been browsing through a lot of different website sources for podcasts, and I wanted to share a little bit of information with the autodidacts out there who haven't yet been introduced to the wonders of open course and the many varieties of educational podcasts.

We're living in an age where superior learning is no longer constrained by circumstances of finance, connections, and location. Ivy League schools like Yale and MIT release several course materials, including reading lists, video lectures, podcasts, assignments, exams, and pdf texts, for hundreds of courses absolutely free. If you're an independent learner like me, you could conceivably receive nearly the quality of education from attending these classes as you can from distance learning with the purchase of the accompanying text. If you're someone who experiences learning as more of an interactive, social process, you will receive admittedly less benefit, but still might find value in the lectures, which can be paused, rewound, and re-watched, unlike the typical college lecture.

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE!

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:37:22 -0700

In short, this post is about smashing all free University learning related OCW and OER resources and collections discovered into an all-in-one quick-to-access/find juicy compilation.

Open Source Mathematics

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:09:13 -0700

Collection of open source resources for mathematics, including software, textbooks, lesson plans, and papers.

How to Research Keywords

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:50:15 -0700

Choosing the right keywords is more than just analysing the numbers and this is a free and easy way to combine the raw data with your marketing intuition to find a successful combination sure to bring success to your site.

Here's how to do your keyword research, FREE and easy