Monthly Archives: March 2008

Tessera Program for Gifted Young Students

The Tessera Program at Libby Center, Spokane, WA is a one day per week program for highly capable students in grades 3 – 6. These students represent the top 3% of their norm group. Students are selected on the basis … Continue reading

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Call for Education Entrepreneur Fellowship Cohort Two Applications

David Harris announces that The Mind Trust is now accepting applications for the second cohort of its Education Entrepreneur Fellowship (the first cohort will be announced in May 2008). The Fellowship, a nationally unique incubator for transformative education ventures, offers … Continue reading

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Transforming Class Lectures to Interactive Online Demos

Tableteers and other venture educators may gain insight into transforming class lessons into interactive online demonstrations by participating in an upcoming Webcast for sales people. Topic: Transforming Your Sales Calls into Interactive Online Demos. Live Event: Wednesday, April 16, 2008. … Continue reading

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Receive $1.4M from Gates Foundation

The Charlotte Business Journal announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $1.4M to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS). In partnership with the Data Wise Institute at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, CMS will train teachers and administrators to use … Continue reading

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Mr. Winkle Goes to School: Movies for Professional Development

Mathew Needleman, at Creating Lifelong Learners, offers an intriguing original three minute movie he made about the need to modernize schools, include technology, use project based learning, and offer culturally relevant teaching. It’s a creative representation of Rip Van Wiinkle … Continue reading

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Innovative Learning Conference 2008: Call for Papers

This is a friendly reminder to submit a proposal to present at INNOVATIVE LEARNING CONFERENCE (ILC). ILC is devoted to advancing student achievement through an interactive event that includes hands-on workshops, concurrent sessions, meetings and exhibitions. Submission Deadline: APRIL 1, … Continue reading

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Learning Efficiency Scale

From a view of a learner, learning efficiency means spending less time, effort, and other personal resources acquiring a given set of information or skills. It also means gaining something of personal value in exchange for those resources. In this … Continue reading

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Tablet PC and Pen-based Technology in Education Research

The two best collections to date of peer reviewed papers describe existing research and program evaluations of impacts Tablet PCs and pen-based technologies have in schools and on students. Educators, researchers and other scholars presented these papers during the 2006 … Continue reading

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Web2.0 and Special Education

Pat, an experienced special education teachers, blogs about topics related to teaching procedures. Check out this post that lists steps to take for using Web2.0 with special education students. Before working with the student, write out a list of steps … Continue reading

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Elmer’s Ultimate Science Fair Sweepstakes

Elmer’s Ultimate Science Fair Sweepstakes invites you to join their program to send 3 teachers, 3 students, and 3 parents to Washington, D.C. … to the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge in October 2008! Five runner up schools will receive … Continue reading

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