Ideas learning how to learn, experience moving from novice to expert . Students develop habit of mind to become disciplined, skeptical inquirers, reseachers, and entrepreneurs~~inquiry and imagination, inquiry-based, problem-solving; applied to real-world challenges, conduct reseach, experiment.analze data and present findings; collaborate both in classes and professional experts; ongoing data collection and ananalysis; www.3.imsa.edu,www.schoolsofdistinction.com,www.k12blueprint.com

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Technology...it's all around us...

1. View the "Technology...it's all around us..."

This is a quick video about the impact and  richness the top technology companies provide our lives. Enjoy the fine art of photographers, the electronic gadgets, the text messaging,the Web 2.0 salute, and always to all teachers who recognize that through technology, we, the digital immigrants, connect to our students, the digital natives

1. Create your own slide show about what impacts your "world". "What is...all round you?"
2. Create a web picture album
3. Follow the format of this slide show SlideShare Link
Slide Show Tools

Resources
Google News is a great resource

Web Picture Albums

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Michael Jackson Clip

1. Click on the web site
2. Read and view "Exclusive Clip: Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’"
3. Create a new post on your blog and write your response
4. Create a link to this site on your blog
5. What do you think? What are your thoughts? Your opinion? Make comparisons with other artists.
6. If the web site does not appear, search for the title on Fancast
7. About Fancast
8. It is due on Monday the 26th.

Blogger has several keyboard shortcuts you can use while editing posts

control + b = Bold
control + i = Italic
control + z = Undo
control + y = Redo
control + shift + a = Link
control + shift + p = Preview
control + d = Save as Draft
control + p = Publish Post
control + s = Autosave and keep editing
control + g = Indic transliteration

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frontline: secret history of the credit card | PBS

frontline: secret history of the credit card PBS

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Mixed Race Heritage

http://tmobile.cnn.mlogic.mobi/cnn/lt_ne/lt_ne/detail/378807/full;jsessionid=9EB86A80F2D2E71D174E2D6D448A6B46.live7ib

The Center for Digital Storytelling

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Time for an alternative to cheap food -- New Internationalist Blog

Time for an alternative to cheap food -- New Internationalist Blog

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The No-Nonsense Guide to

World Food

New Internationalist (NI) -
New Internationalist (NI) workers' co-operative exists to report on issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice.

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