On November 17 at 12pm ET, join host former Vice President Al Gore, inventor Dean Kamen, astronaut Sally Ride, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" and young people from around the world for an interactive discussion exploring
youth attitudes on math and science, and what these subjects mean for future success.
http://www.connectamillionminds.com/campaigns/cammww/town-hall/
AzTEA iGems
Math, Science and the Future of our Nation - A Global Online Town Hall
A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem - Stephen Downes
This is an incredible compilation of free learning tools that will really get you thinking and give you a jump start if you're looking for something specific. Have fun exploring!
Peggy George
A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem"
https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg46x272_2103d58wg2d9
Introduction by Stephen:
Let's explore the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning problem, need or issue! I want a FREE...
Doing What Works
Doing What Works (DWW) is a website sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of DWW is to create an online library of resources that may help teachers, schools, districts, states and technical assistance providers implement research-based instructional practice.
DWW is led by the Office of Planning, Evaluation & Policy Development (OPEPD) at the U.S. Department of Education. OPEPD relies on the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education (and occasionally other entities that adhere to standards similar to those of IES) to evaluate and recommend practices that are supported by rigorous research.
Link to Doing What Works
Online Colleges
"There are many online colleges and universities that offer a quality education, good prices, and the scheduling flexibility that can really only come from an online degree program. There are also many sites that rank online colleges and universities sometimes using arbitrary information and sometimes using data collected directly from the U.S. Department of Education. We have done our best to collect the available information directly from what the online colleges have reported to the U.S. Department of Education. We hope to present our findings to you in a very readable and useful way to make sure you can make an informed decision if you are looking at various online degree programs."
ISTE 2010 Resource Links on Diigo
If you weren't able to attend the ISTE 2010 conference (or even if you were there) this is a fantastic, growing collection of websites that educators found valuable throughout the conference. You can think of this as your own personal "Smackdown"* experience. You can add links to the collection or you can save them to your own Diigo bookmarks.
http://groups.diigo.com/group/iste-2010
*A "Smackdown" is an experience where anyone can volunteer to share a quick 2 minute preview of a favorite, cool Web 2.0 Tool. You can view several recent Smackdowns with related links here:
- EduBloggerCon at ISTE 2010:http://www.edubloggercon.com/Page+of+Demos+EBC+10
- Full Elluminate recording here: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-06-26.1216.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350
- SIGMS at ISTE 2010: https://tlsmackdown.wikispaces.com/
- EduBloggerCon East: http://www.edubloggercon.com/EBC+East+2010+Smackdown (ustream video available)