Featured: 3/4/2013 CTE Online [CTE]

CTE Online is an online source for Career and Technical Education model curriculum, resources, tools, and community.



CTE Online was established to help CTE educators express a clear and purposeful relationship between academic achievement and Career and Technical Education through access to:

• Professional curriculum development tools.
• Professional alignment and instructional strategies resources.
• Standards databases.

CTE Online is designed to bring CTE educators and leaders quality professional development tools that help "establish the role rigorous academic skills play in pursuit of industry and career related coursework."



Here you can find the tools necessary to help teachers identify and align career and technical curricula with the academic skills commonly measured on state assessments. CTE Online allows skilled  CTE educators to share the work they are doing to equally support both current academic challenges and future career interests.

Nearly 1500 teachers a day access and use CTE Online as part of their professional experience with thousands of lesson plans containing ready-to-use classroom materials, videos, resources, and activities.

CTE Online was developed by the Butte County Office of Education's Center for the Advancement of Digital Resources in Education under contract with the California Department of Education.

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Catch of the Day - CK12 FlexBooks - Jul 16, 2010

 

CK-12 is working to establish the development and distribution of quality educational content that can be a core text as well as to provide a flexible context for learning.

FlexBook is an open-content, web-based collaborative e-textbook model. FlexBooks download in the ePub e-book format. Currently there are free FlexBooks available in math, science, technology, and engineering. There are algebra, geometry, and calculus textbooks with teacher support materials. In science, you'll find e-textbooks for biology, chemistry, and physics.

I downloaded the geometry FlexBook. After a quick perusal, it appears to be an adequate base geometry textbook. The images below show how the geometry book renders in several e-book readers on different platforms.

B&N eReader on a MacBook (with highlighting, note, and bookmark)

B&N eReader on a Windows netbook

Adobe Digital Editions on a Windows netbook

Firefox EPUBReader on a Windows netbook

iBooks on iPhone 3GS

You can create and edit your own chapters or even entire FlexBooks.

Watch a CK-12 FlexBooksvideo demo

Register for an interactive webinar "Intro to FlexBooks!"

Friday, July 16th @ 12:00pm PST | Friday, July 23rd @ 10:00am PST

A non-profit organization, the CK-12 Foundation has an objective of reducing the cost of textbook materials for K-12 both in the US and worldwide.

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Catch of the Day - Lessonopoly - Jul 12, 2010

Lessonopoly is a free website designed to facilitate teachers organization of activities both in and out of the classroom, creation and sharing of lesson plans, and connecting to other teachers in online communities.

Started in 2007, Lessonopoly was developed by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation which works across all 33 school districts in Santa Clara County (CA) to ensure public schools have the resources and expertise they need.

Lessonopoly was created and refined with input from teachers and strives to deliver a set of effective and easy-to-use, easy-to-learn tools for teachers.

 

Classroom tools available to registered teachers are a planning calendar, a personal lesson plan library, and a blogging tool. Resources to connect with other teachers include groups and a wiki tool.

Browse or search the thousands of available lesson plans by subject or grade level. You can even submit your own lesson plans to the Lessonopoly library.

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Catch of the Day - LearnOutLoud.com - 13 Jan 10

LearnOutLoud.com, an educational audio/video source, is today's fresh catch

At LearnOutLoud.com you can browse over 20,000 educational audio books, MP3s, podcasts, and videos. It is a one-stop destination for audio and video learning.

LearnOutLoud.com Home Page

Free stuff at LearnOutLoud.com ...

• A large directory of free audio/video learning resources
• Complete resource of audio books in self development, business, and more
• Comprehensive database of audio publishers
• E-Magazine and Free Resource of the Day email
• Dozens of free articles covering specific topics
• A number of its own educational podcasts

Content Overview Page

In LearnOutLoud.com's Content Section you'll find a wealth of information regarding audio/video learning. This section features topic pages, blogs, podcasts, articles, e-magazines, and more.

Podcasts Page

The goal of LearnOutLoud.com is to facilitate the use of audio/video educational material for personal and professional development. They want to help you turn time spent commuting, exercising, doing chores, etc. into learning time. LearnOutLoud.com is based in Santa Monica, California.

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