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Comment by Terry Prindible Smith on July 3, 2008 at 10:33pm

Edutopia is a website provided by the George Lucas Educational Foundation and a fabulously valuable resource. It is reliable and provides many ideas and resources for a variety of projects, including embedding video in presentations, literature circles, students as architects, depth of learning, recycling, Animal Planet Pop Quiz, opportunities for hands-on learning in under-resourced areas, history of equal rights, and much more. It includes segments on technology integration, a video library exhibiting how lessons and technology work hand-in-hand, a section on emotional, social, and character development, one on various assessments and the ideas to make them more authentic, and even teacher training. This website provides discussions on the most popular topics, special reports, special projects, surveys and more. It addresses what works in public education. There are so many ideas, articles, lessons, and suggestions it is hard to know where to begin. It is inspirational and motivational. It helps us in the 21st century provide opportunities for our students as well as ourselves to grow, learn, collaborate, communicate, and even challenge ourselves to come up with interesting projects of our own to contribute as we explore the ones offered. The only negative is that there are so many areas to this site it seems you will never finish viewing them and you probably won’t because they are kept up-to-date, but we can enjoy the journey. I would recommend this site to educators and I will return to it for ideas, resources, and hopefully to contribute to it one day soon.

Comment by Terry Prindible Smith on July 3, 2008 at 10:31pm

As you all know, hopefully, I am working on my Masters. One of my assignments is to create a blog evaluating a website addressing a weakness in technology applications. It just so happens that this could be beneficial to any teacher, so here goes.

Comment by Terry Prindible Smith on April 4, 2008 at 10:11pm

We will start a school where it is possible for students to learn in a safe, nurturing environment, be themselves, respect each other, create endless possibilities, and take pride in their academic success.