Featured: 1-16-2014 Gibbon

Gibbon is a tool that enables its users to collect and share knowledge from the web. Easily curate articles, links, videos, and books to create a playlist to learn anything.

 

The creators of Gibbon  believe that "almost all the knowledge is already available on the web, all you need is someone to guide you to it.” For that reason they created Gibbon, a tool that makes it easy for almost anyone to create and follow simple paths of resources, learning flows, to learn nearly anything. 

 

Gibbon users can teach to and learn from each other. Start teaching by creating your own learning flows and sharing them. Follow other users' learning flows and receive weekly lessons to acquire knowledge chapter by chapter.

 

   

For the last year, Gibbon  has been developed and produced in Leiden, the Netherlands.

 

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Featured: 9-19-2013 nuIDEAS

NuIDEAS is a catalog of descriptions of and links to hundreds of online classroom resources.

NuIDEAS organizes classroom resource collections for each major subject: math, language arts, social studies, and science, as well as collections specifically for elementary classrooms and for teachers of other subjects such as music, art, health, foreign languages, and more. There is also a collection of items that might prove useful to any teacher regardless of subject.

NuIDEAS has been aggregating and presenting quality classroom resources since 2009. It was started and continues to provide a central location where teachers could easily and quickly discover the many diverse useful things available to them online.

 Take a quick look at nuIDEAS

Each nuIDEAS item includes a brief description of the resource, a direct link, and the date it was added to the collection. Many of the included resources are free.

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Featured: 9-18-2013 LearnBIG

 

LearnBIG is a tool to facilitate searching for online educational resources. Access tens of thousands of online courses, educational games, videos, and more.

Filter LearnBIG searches by subject, level, media, device, and even learning style, helping you find exactly what meets your needs.

LearnBIG resources are user-rated. You have a community of teachers, parents, and learners sharing their experiences with the best tools out there. Registered users can review resources as well as share their favorites on LearnBIG.

 See how LearnBIG works

Based in Seattle, WA, LearnBIG is made up of educators, parents, grandparents, and students.

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Featured: 8-20-2013 MineralsEd

MineralsEd was created to assist teachers in developing educational materials to teach about minerals, mining, and Earth science in the classroom.

A partnership program between teachers and the minerals industry in British Columbia, MineralsEd's goals are to "foster a well-informed public through school education based on accurate and balanced minerals information, and to stimulate young peoples' interest in minerals industry careers."

MineralsEd offers teachers:

• A monthly email newsletter.
• A comprehensive and searchable Teacher Resources database.
• Instructional workshops for teachers' professional development.
• Classroom workshops, outreach programs, and more for your class.

MineralsEd is working towards developing the student section of the website into a more interactive and fun space to learn about Earth sciences, BC's mineral resources, the crucial role of minerals in everyday life, and the responsible use of these resources.

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Featured: 7-8-2013 Federal Registry for Educational Excellence

Making it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources from the federal government as well as public and private organizations is the purpose of the Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE).

Currently, more than 180,000 learning resources are registered with The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence. Signing up for the FREE RSS feed gets the newest resources delivered to you several times a week.

A new version of FREE, powered by the Learning Registry - an open database for sharing digital learning resources, incorporates a more responsive design for better access from mobile devices.

The new FREE is a work in progress. More and more resources are being correlated to national and state standards and more social features are planned for the site.

FREE is maintained by the Office of Communications and Outreach and the Office of Educational Technology at the US Department of Education in partnership with the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative.

FREE originated in 1997, in response to a memo from President Bill Clinton. The site was launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in 2006 and again this year.

The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence is one of the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the US Department of Education because of the many resources being offered by contributing federal agencies.

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Featured: 6-20-2013 OpenEd

 

The largest online catalog of educational videos aligned to Common Core and other standards is available at OpenEd.

Choose a standard group such as Math or Language Arts, followed by a category like Congruence or Speaking and Listening. Then select a standard and you will see resources related to it. You can filter by grade (K-12). Optionally, search for resources by keyword instead of by standard.

Registered users can also create courses on OpenEd.

Founded in 2012, Open Education Institute strives to enable teachers to have access to the best educational resources (videos, games, and exercises) for their students, especially resources tied to Common Core standards.

OpenEd is committed to providing this access free to all teachers worldwide. Most of the site's software (including the catalog itself) is open source.

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Featured: 6-18-2013 National Science Digital Library

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) provides links to quality educational resources for teaching and learning online, with emphasis on the STEM disciplines.

NSDL provides structured, descriptive information about web-based educational resources located on other sites. The providers contribute this metadata to NSDL where it is organized into a searchable resource.

Browse national educational standards, including the Common Core Math Standards and find NSDL resources that are associated with key learning goals. View the distribution of NSDL resources in graphical form and browse by education level, resource type, subject, and audience.

Although some resources are restricted to provider site membership, or may have a cost associated with them, most resources in the library adhere to principles of free Open Educational Resource (OER) access.

Partners in the National Science Digital Library network include STEM education organizations and institutions providing digital resource collections, services, partnering opportunities, and connections to communities over a full range of education levels and disciplines.

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Featured: 5-13-2013 World Digital Library [Reference]

The World Digital Library makes significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world available on the Internet, free and in multiple languages.

From this single site, the World Digital Library makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy unique cultural items from all over the world, in a variety of ways. Here can be found such diverse items as manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

Many languages are represented in the books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other primary materials, which are provided in their original languages.

The principal objectives of the World Digital Library are to:

• Promote international and intercultural understanding.
• Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet.
• Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences.
• Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide.

One of the most useful features of the World Digital Library is the description of each item. Written by curators and other experts, this information provides vital context for users and is designed to spark the curiosity of students and the general public to learn more.

Browse the World Digital Library by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or search in several languages. Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, and advanced image-viewing.

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Featured: 3/28/2013 Big Deal Media [Resources]

Big Deal Media is a robust collection of free publications and services such as newsletters, ebooks, print projects, website content, and social media.

K-12 professionals can find the information and tools they need at Big Deal Media. Since 1995, it has consistently delivered lists of resources and funding opportunities. Created by experienced educational publishing professionals and practicing K-12 educators, Big Deal Media publications provide timely, relevant resources in the rapidly transforming educational environment.

At Big Deal Media find:

• Sources of grants and other attainable funding for projects and programs.

• Resources for 21st century themes and skills.

• Professional learning opportunities.

• Standards-aligned lessons and assessments.

• Free and inexpensive finds.

Big Deal Media eBooks are electronic publications that offer resources for educators, while serving specific audiences, including K-12 technology professionals and educators of English language learners.

The mission of Big Deal Media is “to save every educator time and money while identifying top-quality resources for schools and classrooms.”

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EDge21 will be taking a Spring Break next week. The daily featured post will return on Monday, April 8.

Featured: 3/19/2013 GetEdFunding [Funding]

GetEdFunding is a free grant finding resource to help public and private preK–12 schools, districts, educators, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations that work with them, locate and secure the funding they need.



The mission of the GetEdFunding website is to help close the equity gap in educating students from all backgrounds and circumstances by helping educators and institutions acquire the funds they need to supplement tight budgets.

GetEdFunding has currently collected more than 1,000 grants and opportunities from federal, state, regional, and community sources. GetEdFunding is monitored, updated, and expanded daily.

You can search GetEdFunding by six criteria, including 41 areas of focus, 8 content areas, and themes and skills that support your curriculum. Once you are registered, you can save the grants of greatest interest, then return to read about them at any time.




GetEdFunding is sponsored by CDW-G and created by educational professionals for educational professionals. It’s meant to be an easy-to-use, relevant, and reliable database that will be used again and again. Former and active preK through 12 teachers, higher level educators, and experienced educational publishing writers have been involved in every stage of development of this database.

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Featured: 3/14/2013 March Madness Math [Topical]

The March Madness website provides classroom lessons, resources, and tools that have been developed around the NCAA men's basketball tournament.



The March Madness website offers many ways to use the NCAA basketball tournament to inspire learning in your classroom.

Some of the March Madness activities:

• In Figure the Winner students practice calculating percentage, average, mean, median, and mode.
• Exploring Binary uses the NCAA brackets to explore binary trees in sports and math.
• A March Madness webquest.
• Who’s Number 1? is an activity in which students investigate the mathematics of ranking.
• Check out the cities and schools that are part of the tournament using Google Earth.

March Madness Reading engages students in drawing conclusions from large amounts of information, using evidence to support opinions, and reading tables, graphs and charts.

The March Madness website also provides links to a number of related resources as well as several downloadable PDF files.

Note: As far as I can see, this site has no official connection with the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

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Featured: 1/24/2013 NANOYOU [Science]

NANOYOU is a project funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Program that aims to increase young people’s basic understanding of nanotechnologies (NT) and to engage in the dialogue about its ethical, legal, and social aspects.



Nanotechnologies are the design, characterization, production, and application of structures, devices, and systems by controlling shape and size at the scale of individual molecules, nanometer scale.  

Through a variety of NANOYOU resources such as videos, presentations, posters, picture galleries, and art projects related to nanoscience and NT, you’ll be able to learn more about nanoscience and nanotechnologies. As well as being able to use the tools developed by NANOYOU, you will also find some nanotechnologies resources available from other websites.

From the web portal students can actively participate in virtual dialogues, experiments and games. In the virtual Nano Lab, users will be able to become a researcher and do experiments online as well as finding resources for hands-on activities. Games such as the nano-memory game and the jigsaw puzzle can enable students to see how solutions to human needs have changed over time, and which solutions NT offer us for the future.



NANOYOU plans to have a very strong school program on nanotechnologies which will be completely adapted to the educational needs of students aged 11-18. The NANOYOU school program focuses on information and communication technology, energy and environment, and medicine.

NANOYOU offers Teacher Training kits for different age groups, as well as for science centers. The modules are available to all teachers interested in organizing educational activities within their schools, and includes background materials, literature, and specific case studies.

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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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COD - 9/20/2012 - EducationWorld [Resources]

EducationWorld is a free and comprehensive resource for educators, a place where teachers can gather and share ideas, and find high-quality lesson plans and research materials.

The original content offered at EducationWorld includes lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts.

Other resources at EducationWorld:

• Website reviews
• Special features and columns
• Employment listings

EducationWorld was founded in 1996, to create an Internet home for educators. It is funded by corporate sponsors and advertisers in order to keep the site free for all teachers.

EducationWorld has received many awards and recognitions, including the Parenting Journal's "Editor's Choice Award" and USA Today's "Best Bet for Educators."

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COD - 8/15/2012 - Old Maps Online [Social Studies]

Old Maps Online is a user-friendly gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. Old Maps Online is for anyone interested in old maps and what they can tell us about the past.

Old Maps Online aggregates information about digital map images from different libraries and host institutions in a universal search interface. You won’t need to know where a map is held to be able to locate it. Find maps held by different institutions showing the same geographical area so you can better decide which is most relevant to your needs.

Search Old Maps Online by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow the results by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the host institution's website.

Old Maps Online is a free, open-access search portal with no need for downloading, registering, or subscribing.

OldMapsOnline is a collaboration between The Great Britain Historical GIS Project and Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland. It succeeds a project lead by the Moravian Library in the Czech Republic between 2008-11. The portal is based on the MapRank Search technology originally developed for the Kartenportal project in Switzerland. 

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COD - 6/20/2012 - Jump$tart [Economics]

Jump$tart is a national coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the financial literacy of pre-kindergarten through college-age youth by providing advocacy, research, standards, and educational resources. Jump$tart strives to prepare youth for life-long successful financial decision-making.

Founded in 1995, Jump$tart is now a partnership of about 150 national organizations and entities from the corporate, non-profit, academic, government, and other sectors. These coalition partners include such familiar organizations as Bank of America, Capital One, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Equifax, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Education Association, and many more. These partner organizations generally conduct and/or support financial education or offer financial education tools and materials.

Jump$tart also includes a network of 49 affiliated state coalitions.  Each state coalition is an independently governed and operated non-profit organization, united with the national Jump$tart Coalition through an affiliation agreement and a desire to advance Jump$tart’s mission of financial astuteness for students. Jump$tart's state coalitions are operated predominately by volunteers.

Jump$tart’s strategic role is to provide resources that complement and enhance the individual and collective work of its partners and to take on activities that advance the financial literacy effort on behalf of all of its partners. Jump$tart’s online Clearinghouse is the nation’s most comprehensive collection of financial education resources suitable for students in pre-K through college, reviewed for appropriateness, and based on the National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education.

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