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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:00:00 -0700

Write Reflections™: Do you Want your Students to Learn to Write for a Change?

Why do students experience the slightest bit of difficulty when they write?

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:00:00 -0700

Transforming Sandman-Style PowerPoint™ Projects into Terrific Teaching Tools

Student presentations are a stock item often attached to student projects.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 -0700

Open Source Resource Switchboard

Classroom Toolkit is participating in the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). This is in the EduBloggerCon and Open Source sections.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Sat, 31 May 2008 05:00:00 -0700

Using Online Technologies to Create "Sparks" in Learning

Technology has become more reliable and ubiquitous. So have teacher laptops and classroom LCD projectors for their personal use.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:00:00 -0700

Education Week: Sign Up - Keep Posted - Especially through the Summer!

Education Week offers a free newsletter service that can keep you informed about news that impacts the teaching profession. Take advantage of this offer.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:00:00 -0700

Pacer Kids against Bullying

Bullying is a problem anytime that it rears its nasty bulk and stinking frame.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:00:00 -0700

PBS Teacherline

PBS Teacherline® is an expensive alternative for professional development if a teacher has to pay for the courses out of their own pocket.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:00:00 -0700

Flash Card Technology: A Low-Tech How-To

Drill has been discouraged for the past decade, and flash cards have lost some of their savory flavor.

But, flash cards can serve an important function in all sorts of learning that requires the memory of multiple words, phrases, formulas, functions, directions, steps, patterns, etc.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:00:00 -0700

Technology Skills every Teacher Needs

In the old days, before computers and the Internet, skills in basic office duplication were enough for most teachers.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:00:00 -0700

Free Camtasia™ Studio: Create your Own Desktop Videos

Desktop video is one area where existing Open Source software doesn't measure up to the commercial version. And, the "king" of commercial video creation software is Camtasia™ studio.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:00:00 -0700

Free Camtasia™ Studio: Create your Own Desktop Videos

Desktop video is one area where existing Open Source software doesn't measure up to the commercial version. And, the "king" of commercial video creation software is Camtasia™ studio.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:00:00 -0700

Thanksgiving Cornucopia: Real (Primary) Source Resources

Thanksgiving (like Christmas, Easter and Columbus Day) have undergone revision, transition and change as they transformed from fact to myth.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:00:00 -0700

African American Culture: Learn it Like you would a Foreign Language

African Americans lost their demographic status as "The Minority." Now, there are more Hispanics in the US than African Americans. But, this does not decrease the importance of teachers understanding African American culture.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:00:00 -0700

Nation Master .Com and State Master .Com

Every teacher needs an up-to-date resource about the history, geography, politics and other information about the countries of our world.

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joseph@classroomtoolkit.net (Classroom Toolkit Newsletter) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:00:00 -0700

eBooks: Inexpensive, Available Content…Why use Textbooks?

eBooks are available, inexpensive or free, and more interesting to students than the canned, static, ossified content known as "textbooks."

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