The Week in Rap: Flocabulary Partner Course on OLE
- At February 5, 2013
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Today marks the launch of a new partner course on Pearson’s Online Learning Exchange, ”The Week in Rap: Current Events Through Hip-Hop.” Week in Rap subscribers have access to the all-inclusive, browser-based, interactive version of the Week in Rap music video, which includes lyrics, links to news sources, and assessment activities. Subscribers also have access to discrete versions [...]
Read More»FREE Webinar: 10 Easy Ways to Participate in Digital Learning Day with Richard Byrne
- At February 1, 2013
- By OLE
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Digital Learning Day is right around the corner. If you’re looking for ways to participate in this year’s event on February 6th, you can’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of the most prominent professionals in education technology, Richard Byrne. OLE is celebrating this year’s Digital Learning Day with Ed Tech guru Richard Byrne, [...]
Read More»Using MOOCs for Professional Development
- At February 1, 2013
- By Hannah Cyrus
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MOOCs for Professional Development: What and Why? What’s a MOOC, and why does it have such a silly name? This trend has exploded in these last few years, and 2013 should be your year to check it out! MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses, and more of these free online classes are being made [...]
Read More»5 New Year’s Resolutions, 5 New Boards to Follow on Pinterest for Education
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In my kitchen at home, I have a big pin board full of postcards, pictures and cinema tickets. My 2013 resolutions didn’t include getting rid of any of them – even if this precarious collage threatens to fall once in a while. On the contrary, I told myself to add more stuff regularly. I don’t [...]
Read More»I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Day – SchoolTube Video
- At January 24, 2013
- By OLE
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I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Day Description In the first part of this video, students portray famous figures in black history, speaking quotations from their lives. The second part has those characters reciting part of MLK’s I Have a Dream speech. This portrayal gave the students unique insight into the lives of [...]
Read More»Beyond “I Have a Dream”: Student Projects Exploring the Legacy of MLK
- At January 18, 2013
- By Hannah Cyrus
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Out of years of activism and thousands of speeches, public memory has honed in on one day in August, 1963, on a few lines of one speech, to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Of course, the now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech is an important moment in American history, and the speech is well [...]
Read More»iPad Ideas Across the Curriculum: Language Arts and Social Studies
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Part 2 of 2 Part One - iPad Ideas Across the Curriculum: Science and Math This is part two of iPad Apps Across the Curriculum, with even more creative and useful ways you can use your iPad in the classroom. Be sure to check out part one, which covers science and math subjects. For this round, we’ll cover: Language Arts [...]
Read More»Wild Turkey 101 – Untamed Science Video
- At January 10, 2013
- By OLE
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This Week: Wild Turkey 101 Did you know that the turkey was in fact named after the country Turkey? In Turkey though, the name refers to coming from India. In India, it refers to Peru. In Arabic, it’s called Greek Chicken. In French, it’s Indian Chicken. So how did the turkey get it’s name? In this [...]
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