Featured: 11/29/2012 Lincoln Archives Digital Project [History]

The Lincoln Archives Digital Project is providing access to the fragile historic paper records of the administration of President Abraham Lincoln.

The Lincoln Archives Digital Project is the first project to scan the entire contents of a president's administration. When complete, the approximately 14 million federal records housed within the National Archives, including all documents, maps, and photographs from the Civil War era, will be available online. The period of time covered by the project is March 4, 1861, through April 15, 1865.

The Lincoln Archives Digital Project is supplemented by related maps, photographs, newspaper articles, essays, and video podcasts to provide a broader picture of this period in American history.

The Lincoln Archives Digital Project  also includes several documents, signed by Abraham Lincoln, that have never before been cataloged.

The Lincoln Archives Digital Project is a private enterprise.  The project receives no federal funding and is supported by memberships.

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Featured: 11/28/2012 Calameo [Self-publishing]

Calaméo instantly creates interactive web publications from your PDF files.

Publish, search for, and share all your documents online with Calaméo. Organize your publications into subscriptions. Your colleagues and students can add comments to and start discussions on each publication.

The Calaméo publishing method offers a wide variety of options and is simple to use. From a PDF file, create an interactive electronic document that is accessible from a computer and can simulate the feeling of reading a paper document: page turning, mark the pages, zoom in. Your documents can have as many pages as you like.

Watch Creating Online Publications with Calameo

A basic Calaméo account is free. Upgrading to a Premium account allows access to more features.

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Featured: 11/27/2012 Britannica School [Reference]

From the publishers of Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica School offers learning resources for the classroom, for the library, or the home.

Britannica School strives to provide an unmatched learning environment. Start with reliable information from the encyclopedias. Find interactive exercises, atlases, timelines, magazines, pre-screened websites, and videos to use in your lessons, for class projects, or for homework.An abundance of authentic content aligned to Common Core and state standards and a wide variety of resources including thousands of articles, images, videos, primary sources, e-books, editor-recommended websites, dictionary, thesaurus, and world atlas, encourage rigor while students read, write, research, and develop vocabulary. A consolidated search feature brings all the resources together in one place.

Britannica School's friendly interface makes it easy to select the portal appropriate to each student’s reading, grade, and age level supporting differentiated instruction. Text-to-speech supports students with special needs and built-in translation features help ELLs.Features of Britannica School:

• Choose from preschool, elementary, middle school, or high school levels, for all reading levels and abilities.
• Quick and easy access to the Common Core, state, and provincial curriculum standards, conveniently organized by subject and grade level.

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More Honesty Among High School Students?

An article in USA Today Online says that the results of a bi-annual survey from the Josephson Institute of Ethics suggests that in 2012, high school students who admit to cheating, lying, or stealing dropped for the first time in a decade.

It’s implied that more attention to character may be one reason for the decline. Such changes may be the consequence of a major shift in parenting and school involvement in issues of honesty and character.

Read the full article here.

The Rearview Mirror 11/24/2012

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.


Monday

Since 2007,Panopto has been developing innovative and affordable video capture and management software that can record any type of input, with any equipment, at any scale, by anyone with a laptop or smartphone.

Tuesday

Students and teachers who would like to learn about the human nervous system can find a wealth of information atNeuroscience for Kids.

Wednesday

Portfoliogen is a free online service where teachers can create their own customized portfolio webpage to share with prospective employers, principals, professors, and peers.

Thursday

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Featured: 11/21/2012 Portfoliogen [Employment]

Portfoliogen is a free online service where teachers can create their own customized portfolio webpage to share with prospective employers, principals, professors, and peers.

Portfoliogen was created to allow you to use modern technology to create a web-based portfolio to display your skills. Create your own professional looking web page in less than 5 minutes.With Portfoliogen you can:

• Get a personal url for your portfolio webpage.
• Post information about yourself, certifications, work-related photos, and a profile picture.
• Upload documents such as your resume, teaching philosophy, lesson plans, and more.
• Add work-related links to other useful sites.
• Customize the design and layout of your web page.
• Toggle your portfolio web page on and off.
• Stay connected with a message center where potential employers can contact you.
• See how many people are viewing your portfolio web page.

Portfoliogen includes a career center where employers post their current job openings. Registered users will receive targeted postings and be able to share their portfolios with employers.DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION: http://cmp.ly/0

Featured: 11/20/2012 Neoroscience for Kids [Science]

Students and teachers who would like to learn about the human nervous system can find a wealth of information at Neuroscience for Kids.

Visitors to Neuroscience for Kids can discover the fascinating world of the brain, spinal cord, neurons, and the senses. Learn about the nervous system through experiments, activities, and games. And, there are lots of links to related websites to facilitate further exploration.

What you can do at Neuroscience for Kids:

• Search the web site and the questions/answers page.
• Keep up-to-date on new discoveries in brain research with Neuroscience in the News.
• Sign up for the Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter.
• Watch BrainWorks, a 30-minute TV show about the brain.

Portions of Neuroscience for Kids are available in a variety of languages including Spanish, Chinese, Portugese, Russian, and more.

Neuroscience for Kids is maintained by Eric H. Chudler and was supported by a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources.

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Featured: 11/19/2012 Panopto [Video]

Since 2007, Panopto has been developing innovative and affordable video capture and management software that can record any type of input, with any equipment, at any scale, by anyone with a laptop or smartphone.

Educational institutions can use Panopto to record lectures, give students on-demand access to course materials, and broadcast campus events. Panopto's software has been adopted by more than 400 universities. Panopto can provide personalized learning across an entire campus. Students can pause, search, review, and add notes to lectures.

Remote recording enables fully automated lecture capture from any laptop. Panopto will work with your current equipment, in virtually any environment. You won't have to buy any new hardware.  You have the flexibility to scale an entire department, campus, or network of campuses.

Ways to use Panopto:

• From your laptop or iOS device, record multimedia course content, section reviews, lab demonstrations, and more.
• Capture your screen, audio, and video with plug-and-play support for webcams and other devices.
• Supplement recordings with PDF attachments and synchronized presentation slides.

Watch a video overview of Panopto

You can view Panopto content on any device that supports a web browser. Panopto’s native iPhone app puts the power of Panopto in your pocket.

Founded by technology entrepreneurs and software design veterans with deep roots in education, Panopto was built with technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science.  Panopto delivers video capture and management solutions to a variety of markets and institutions.

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Extra: ocenaudio [Audio]

ocenaudio is an easy-to-use, fast, functional, cross-platform,  audio editor from Brazil.

ocenaudio might be the perfect audio software for people who need an uncomplicated way to work with audio files. ocenaudio also has powerful features useful to more advanced users.

ocenaudio is loaded with features such as support for multiple file formats, spectral analysis, and audio signal generation, with a focus on usability, providing the user with a cohesive and intuitive audio editing and analysis tool. Time-consuming tasks such as opening and saving audio files, or applying effects, run in the background, so that you can work on other files.

ocenaudio is free and available for all major operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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The Rearview Mirror 11/17/2012

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

Monday

Portfoliogen is a free online service where teachers can create their own customized portfolio webpage to share with prospective employers, principals, professors, and peers.

Tuesday

Educators of all levels from pre-K through college can access a digital collection of Earth and space science resources atNASA Wavelength.

Wednesday

Together, Discovery Education and Intel have createdCuriosity in the Classroom, a program designed to "guide teachers and students on a journey through life's biggest questions."

Thursday

NSTeens resources are designed to help "tweens" (ages 8 - 12) make safer online choices through lessons presented in a series of animated videos. The videos highlight the Internet-related adventures of a diverse cast of teenagers.

Duolingo Releases Free iPhone App

Duolingo allows you learn a language for free while simultaneously helping to translate the web. Duolingo was first noted here in June of this year. Duolingo is a free language learning website where you can learn your chosen language at your own pace.

Duolingo recently released its free iPhone app which includes the features and function of the web application. There are no ads or subscription fees.

Featured: 11/15/2012 NS Teens [Net Safety]

NSTeens resources are designed to help "tweens" (ages 8 - 12) make safer online choices through lessons presented in a series of animated videos. The videos highlight the Internet-related adventures of a diverse cast of teenagers.

Select videos from one of NSTeens' three series to facilitate an Internet safety discussion with your students. Educators may reinforce the safety lessons in the videos with the accompanying activity cards.

NSTeens also is home to NetSmartz’s Real-Life Stories videos, a series of narratives from actual teens about real experiences of online victimization. Each of the videos is accompanied by an activity card to promote student discussion and understanding. The Real-Life Stories series deals with more sophisticated subject matter. You may want to review them before using with younger students.

The Additional Materials sections includes tween (8-12) and teen (11-17) presentations, pledges, and tip sheets.

All resources on NSTeens are free and offered in both English and Spanish. Log-in is required in order to download all materials.

NSTeens was created through a partnership between Sprint® and the Internet safety experts at NetSmartz® Workshop, a program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC).

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Featured: 11/14/2012 Curiosity in the Classroom [STEM]

Together, Discovery Education and Intel have created Curiosity in the Classroom, a program designed to "guide teachers and students on a journey through life's biggest questions."

Curiosity in the Classroom helps you explore some of life's most interesting and important questions with your students by providing free, standards-aligned lesson plans and videos for students in grades 6-12 (ages 11-17).

Download free content and materials to help your students become the innovators, scientists, and engineers of the future. These lesson plans, activities, videos, and interactives can bring key concepts to life and inspire an interest in science-related careers.

Explore ways to develop students' scientific thinking using the lessons and other things available at Curiosity in the Classroom. Transition from textbook science to authentic inquiry and scientific practices with these engaging resources.

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