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Sarita Pillai's Blog – March 2011 Archive (4)

Skype in the Classroom - New Global Community for Educators

Skype has launched a global community for educators called Skype in the classroom. The free service connects teachers from around the world to allow them to communicate, collaborate on projects, draw expertise from one another, and share learning materials and best practices. It also serves as a launchpad for connecting students with their peers in classrooms across the planet using Skype video. You can read more in this week's issue…

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Added by Sarita Pillai on March 31, 2011 at 11:00am — 6 Comments

Green Your School Challenge

Do Something and HP invites teams of U.S. students to help protect the environment and fight climate change by participating in the Green Your School campaign.

Students are invited to create and implement team projects to help make their school campuses more eco-friendly. Projects will be assessed on a number of criteria, including the number of people…

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Added by Sarita Pillai on March 17, 2011 at 1:42pm — No Comments

Student Engagement - On The Go!

From T.H.E. journal: Assistant Principal in the St. Johns County school district in Florida, Patrick McGee, explains that whatever the other advantages of adopting iPads and iPods in the classroom, the key is student engagement. The article also includes a list of apps for the iPod and iPad that address a range of instructional and curricular areas (such as Splice, Animoto, eClicker, etc).

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Added by Sarita Pillai on March 2, 2011 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Google Global Online Science Fair

Google has partnered with NASA, CERN, National Geographic, Scientific American, and the LEGO Group to create a global STEM competition. Students aged 13 - 18 can enter as individuals or as teams of up to three. The Google Science Fair will culminate in a celebratory event at Google headquarters in California in July 2011, where finalists will compete for internships, scholarships, and prizes in front of a panel of celebrity scientist judges including Nobel Laureates and household names. The… Continue

Added by Sarita Pillai on March 2, 2011 at 9:34am — No Comments