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Kamis, 27 Agustus 2009

What is Home Schooling About?

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=George_Preston]George Preston

Home schooling is the act of educating one's children primarily at home and in a family setting, with a parent or guardian as teacher. The term can apply equally to children in the K-12 range who fall under his or her state's compulsory attendance laws.

Home school is kind of similar to building a house -- you need to determine your plan, gather your materials, and make sure that you have the right tools for the job. Take your time to read, look around, compare notes on different ways of teaching. It is legal in all 50 states, and 37 states actually have some statutes or regulations specifically geared for home schooling. There are also home school organizations running in every state, and children that are schooled at home tend to score higher, on average, than their publicly schooled peers.

Families will choose to school their children at home instead of sending them to public schools for a variety of different reasons. This kind of schooling can help parents and children form strong bonds with one another. And nowadays, families are spending their educational dollars as they see fit, and educational entrepreneurs are trailblazing the way by creating a wide-ranging marketplace of goods and services for this market. It's not just about mom and the kids around the kitchen table now -- it's becoming a new educational model.

Home school programs are a great choice for many different kinds of students and families. They are most generally used by families with children between the grades of 5th and 12th. These programs are ideal for those children who are prevented from attending a regular high school due to some personal problems, financial troubles or poor health, among other things.

To learn much more about a home school program visit http://HomeSchoolCurriculumHelp.com/home-school-program.php to find out more about home school help of all kinds, including programs and curriculums.

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Rabu, 26 Agustus 2009

Artificial Intelligence - Available Now

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=John_Dir]John Dir

Whenever a person wants to present themselves as an industry expert, one credible approach is to paint a shining picture of future technology and what people can expect from hopeful visions of things to come. One potential that has long bothered me is the current general perception of artificial intelligence technology.

There are a few key concepts that are not often included in the general discussion of creating machines that think and act like us. First, the problem with artificial intelligence is that it is artificial. Trying to create machines that work like the human brain and its special creative properties has always seemed useless to me. We already have people to do all that. If we succeed in generating a system that is every bit as able as the human brain to create and solve problems, such an achievement will also result in the same limitations. There is no benefit in creating an artificial life form that can surpass us to further degrade the value of humanity. Creating machines to enhance and compliment the wonders of human thinking does have many appealing benefits. One significant plus to building artificially intelligent systems is the benefit of the teaching process. Like people, machines have to be taught what we want them to learn, but unlike us, the methods used to imprint machine instructions can be accomplished in a single pass.

Our brains allow us to selectively flush out information we do not want to retain, and are geared for a learning process based on repetition to imprint a long term memory. Machines cannot “forget” what they are taught unless they are damaged, reach their memory capacity, or they are specifically instructed to erase the information they are tasked to retain. This makes machines great candidates for performing all the tediously repetitive tasks, and storing all the information we do not want to burden ourselves with absorbing. With a little creativity, computers can be adjusted to respond to people in ways that are more pleasing to the human experience, without the need to actually replicate the processes that comprise this experience. We can already teach machines to issue polite responses, offer helpful hints, and walk us through learning processes that mimic the niceties of human interaction, without requiring machines to actually understand the nuances of what they are doing. Machines can repeat these actions because a person has programmed them to execute the instructions that offer these results. If a person wants to take the time to impress aspects of presenting their own personality into a sequence of mechanical instructions, computers can faithfully repeat these processes when called upon to do so.

In today’s market place, most software developers do not add on the extra effort that is required to make their applications seem more polite and conservatively friendly to the end users. If the commercial appeal for doing this was more apparent, more software vendors would race to jump onto this bandwagon. Since the consuming public understands so little about how computers really work, many people seem to be nervous about machines that project a personality that is too human in the flavor of its interaction with people. A computer personality is only as good as the creativity of its originator, which can be quite entertaining. For this reason, if computers with personality are to gain ground in their appeal, friendlier system design should incorporate a partnering with end users themselves in building and understanding how this artificial personality is constructed. When a new direction is needed, a person can incorporate that information into the process, and the machine learns this new aspect as well.

People can teach a computer how to cover all contingencies that arise in accomplishing a given purpose for managing information. We do not have to take ourselves out of the loop in training computers how to work with people. The goal of achieving the highest form of artificial intelligence, self-teaching computers, also reflects the highest form of human laziness. My objective in design is to accomplish a system that will do the things I want it to do, without having to deal with negotiating over what the system wants to do instead. This approach is already easier to achieve than most people think, but requires consumer interest to become more prevalent.

John Dir
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Selasa, 25 Agustus 2009

LMS Means Quality Education

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Robin_L._Green]Robin L. Green

Education feeds the mind and is the starting point of every human activity. If education is jeopardized especially in the school, then what is the purpose of getting one? If the students are not able to gain knowledge to nurture them for the future, then what achievement do they get from going to school?

In America, the quality of public school education has declined because of the recorded violence that happens during school days. School violence has been listed as one of the serious problems that make excellent curriculum, competent teachers, and great facilities futile because students' learning is disturbed. Among the recorded and "popular" school violence include bullying, fighting, gang activity, gun use, and locker thefts. Ostensibly, one cannot blame the student attackers who start these kinds of aggression, nor can one condemn the parents for not imposing discipline over their children. More so, the local government can only do as much to enforce regulations and ordinances to obviate school violence and to terminate it when it happens.

Clearly the school is laden with this vicious problem on violence. In the past, the U.S. Department of Education elaborated that there is no one anti-violence program that could solve the problem across all schools. The system of individual schools can only be suited for a specific academic institution because of demographics; hence, there is no ubiquitous anti-violence intervention, policy, and program.

As the key player to this problem, school administrators can design a program that will potentially dart the issue at core. A solution that can be declared universal is the Learning Management System or LMS. The LMS is software that tracks, delivers, serves, and manages education and training. Many popular LMS's are internet-based to assist learning monitoring online, used to cater to different administrative, deployment, and educational prerequisite. It provides a central point for training and learning development work. The LMS can provide quantifiable results - where a classroom set-up may not.

If school violence is attributed to the physical and personal interaction of students, then the LMS is the best solution to disconnect the hostile relationship. Virtual learning can allow a more effective exchange of information among students because it streamlines idle times that would have spent over settling gang fights, for instance. Discussions and learning become focused and intensive because of the absence of unnecessary distractions from the environment. Likewise, the students are trained to become more interactive with a positive sense through the use of multimedia, and other technology benefits; hence turning learning more interesting and effective. Teachers can automatically test the knowledge and competency of the students using the LMS.

A learning management system is flexible and versatile that could resolve the problem of school violence in the country. The LMS has so much to offer which could re-boost the quality of education in public schools. It is in the hands of the school administrators to make things happen and ignite change to uplift the status of education in America.

Public schools get free access to Coggno's [http://www.coggno.com/]Learning Management System and create educational content for eLearning. Visit http://www.coggno.com and create your free account.

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School Blogs Can Revolutionize Schools

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Paul_LP_Taylor]Paul LP Taylor

School blogs can transform virtually every aspect of school life. I appreciate that's a bold claim but I'm going to back it up with some illustrations. I am also going to show you how easy it is to set up a complete school blogging platform with no technical knowledge whatsoever.

Before I go any further though, let me define what I mean by school blogs. Although blogs may have started out rather like online diaries, software such as WordPress (yes, it's a version of WordPress that I am going to recommend) is quite capable of creating complex websites incorporating multimedia elements. The WordPress platform makes the production of engaging content as simple as using a word processor, allowing users to focus on content. It also allows readers to interact through comments and this is one of the main reasons why school blogs can be so powerful.

So think of a blog as an interactive personal website.

What I am suggesting is not that the school has a blog but rather that everyone IN the school has a blog - teachers, students, administrators - even parents. Here are some examples:

# Lessons - let's imagine a teacher, Mr Geography. His next few lessons will cover the Amazon jungle. So he transfers an outline of his lesson plan to a blog post and adds in some images, a couple of videos from YouTube showing some Amazonian wildlife and links to the National Geographic website. For homework, the students will visit his post, possibly leave some comments, and then create their own posts answering the questions he set. (Don't worry, there are many ways to stop plagiarism.)

The students have thus had a much richer and creative experience than simply reading a text book. Their work will remain online for future revision. It can even be made public and form part of a showcase of what students are achieving. Not only can this inspire children, it is a wonderful way for parents and grandparents to share in a student's progress. This increased involvement can have many dividends in fundraising.

# Sports - the latest results and performances of the school teams can be shared online through reports, photographs and videos. Again, a much broader community can share in the school's activities.

# Special Interests - this is a broad catch-all category for all the other activities that students may engage in, from dance, drama and music (reviews of theater visits, progress on their own productions etc.) through to IT, photography and debating clubs, The blogs of participant students help their development and publicize what they are doing to a wider audience. The school becomes a much more vibrant place.

# Field Trips and Holidays - parents can be kept informed of what is happening and the whole experience enriched and captured for posterity through blog entries.

I have only hinted at some of the incredible possibilities for using school blogs. I would like to emphasise a few points. Firstly, most of what is produced is almost a by-product of current activities - this is a different way of working rather than extra work. Secondly, much of it is created by the students themselves. Finally, despite the stunning results that can be achieved, this is actually very easy to implement.

I mentioned the WordPress platform earlier. There is a mutli-user version of WordPress, WPMU, that provides the basis for my recommended approach to school blogging. If you are considering how to [http://www.school-blogs.com]set up school blogs with maximum effectiveness and ease-of-use, I would suggest an out-of-the box solution incorporating a number of plugins. This will allow you to focus on the benefits the system can bring rather than spending days tweaking settings to achieve an inferior solution.

Paul Taylor, MA(Oxon), MBA, member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and creator of the [http://www.school-blogs.com]School Blogs website - a resource outlining the benefits of school blogs and the technology available.

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Minggu, 23 Agustus 2009

Think Tank Topic; Digital Libraries and the Future of Books

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow

We have all heard a lot on the news recently about books being made digital for all to read. Microsoft is doing a 20-million dollar project in Great Britain and Google is doing several libraries in the United States. There has been some controversy on this issue from authors who receive royalties and booksellers. It is for this reason our Think Tank brought up the topic.

A prominent member in our Think Tank “Swift” said; “I was looking into your idea of the digital library and Goggle's attempt at putting all existing books on the Internet. I really like this idea as only a small percentage of books remain in print. I have been looking for an out of print book for decades called the Rose and the Labyrinth and have had book searches done all over the world. I have found out that there were 5 books with this title. The one I am looking for dealt with the time Carl Jung spent with minors and his reactions to them. He didn't write it, but I no longer have the information on the book so don't remember who the writer is. There are some really wonderful out of print books and no way to access them. I am having problems with the publishing companies who are worried about the copyright infringement issues and the interpretation of "fair use."

They wouldn't start with the newest books, I would think; but the books that were no longer protected. What in the heck are they being protected from? No one is going to pretend they wrote them for crying out loud. After this length of time, I'll read any book names the Rose and the Labyrinth and pretend it was the book that was referred to me by Jung's last student before he died. I really like the idea of a mine being a labyrinth--so did my father.

Well I certainly see Swift’s point on this issue and we know that currently we are very busy digitizing humankind’s written knowledge from books to the digital so it can be made available to the world. This is a very wise move as books can decay over years and out of print books are not available to all. By digitizing the known human written knowledge to the world we can conquer the opportunity barriers of those hard chargers who may not have the resources to achieve the upward mobility they seek. As we conquer the digital divide we will be well on our way to giving back the knowledge of the world from the entire Library of Commerce to the human race in an easy to read, search and retrieve format available to all. That will be an excellent day for the human race indeed. Imagine a digital library of the Library of Commerce able to use Super Computer speeds to retrieve all the world’s written books online at a speed of Google or MSN.com. That is to say any book written in any language, anywhere in the world, at anytime, think on that for a second.

By using knowledge and experience this way we can leverage this to prevent failure through understanding results. Those who do not learn from their mistakes, tend to keep from making them. Those who remember the lessons learned from their mistakes successes tend to reason better thru analyzing of their mistakes and trying to figure a way around their problems.

Now then, let me tell you why I believe a society needs digital libraries hooked to all civilizations for faster advancement of the human species as a whole or as one. If you had a problem that needed solving for the betterment of your civilization and you had all the world’s knowledge at your finger tips; that is to say a computer hooked to a system like a World Wide Digital Library, then you would have enhanced your personal knowledge and memory by a million fold. This could help your intelligent quotient at the speed of computer and that coupled with the speed of thought is a major component needed to take mankind to the singularity of an all-knowing, never ending being in this dimension. Think on this.

"Lance Winslow" - Online [http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/]Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; [http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/]http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.


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Selasa, 18 Agustus 2009

Promote E-Learning Student Originality and Track Progress With Learning Management System Solutions

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Robin_L._Green]Robin L. Green

E-learning courses delivered via learning management systems within school districts are able to address all kinds of issues schools face, including too few course offerings, teacher shortages in certain areas, the rising number of home-schoolers, lack of AP courses, and lack of physical space and school funding.

The downside is that plagiarism and other forms of dishonesty are likelier to happen in online education. Cheating doesn't occur only in online assessments, but also in online discussion forums, assignments, projects and other collaborative, online, educational tools.

We in the e-learning community believe that online learning is an effective method of teaching, training, and testing student understanding, but it needs to be done well. And it often is not. In many popular e-learning systems, when a student receives a high score on an online assessment, it makes us wonder: is it an accurate indicator of the student's understanding?

According to studies, 70% of American high school seniors admit to cheating on at least one test, and 95% of the students who admitted to cheating were never caught. And furthermore, 75% of college students reported cheating during their college career. To sum it up, cheating is a huge temptation, and something that most people do at some point.

As educators, online course developers, and training instructors, our goal is to provide effective and engaging content so that students are both inspired to learn and held accountable if they are not doing their best. But how do we go about achieving this goal?

A robust learning management system will provide the best tools for ensuring that students are putting in their best effort and submitting creative and original work. Tools that prevent cheating and monitor student progress are part of this solution.

Using Web 2.0 tools like discussion forums for student assignments is a common practice in e-learning courses--especially at the university level. But it isn't enough just to tell students to answer questions and post them, and "get engaged." The assignment needs to be coordinated in a way that ensures maximum responses and originality. Without a strategy to make the tools work and avoid copying and repetition, educational tools like discussion forums and wikis become ineffective.

The best strategy to ensure that students are engaged is to create engaging material. Dynamic course features like videos, audio material like podcasts, and other tools are simple ways to obtain and maintain students' attention and interest.

However, even the most engaging course and the most interactive content needs to be kept in check by a way to track and monitor student progress.

Once a learning management system is in place and its features are understood, administrators can take advantage of its tools to easily create a system in which student progress is tracked. Once the system is in place, instructors and educators need not worry much about grading and other traditionally tedious activities.

A good LMS automates not only the administration of training, but the way in which administrators can find out students' progress.

Ultimately, creating and maintaining a great course, tracking and monitoring student progress needs to be both built in to an e-learning system but most importantly, the intent needs to exist. It's something that must be actively sought, rather than passively dismissed. A strong learning management system with automated tracking tools is great, but even more ideal is that combined with the energy and effort of the person behind the scenes, delivering the content.

Public schools can now use Coggno's [http://www.coggno.com]learning management systems for free. Create your free account now, visit Coggno at http://www.coggno.com/lms

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Senin, 17 Agustus 2009

Create a Readable E-Learning Voice in Your Learning Management System Course

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Robin_L._Green]Robin L. Green

When creating e-learning content, you have a lot of choices to make. You'll make decisions about everything from navigation to graphics, visual and audio media, to a writing style. In gathering your content and preparing it for uploading to a learning management system, pay special attention to that last aspect--the writing style. Many people forego this consideration and their courseware is ineffective because of it. A solid or weak writing voice can make or break an online course.

A powerful e-learning course is based on the author's own expertise and personal experience. And because of the infinite number of courseware subjects that exist, and the different kinds of learning and pedagogical styles, it makes sense that writing style should vary depending on the context.

Unfortunately, the trend in e-learning writing has traditionally leaned towards "voiceless writing." The idea is to provide students with formal, blank-faced content, and that an author's "voice" should be found nowhere in the text. A completely impersonalized tone has been typically preferred.

But more and more people in the education community are finding that a strong voice in content isn't necessarily a bad thing--especially in e-learning material. The simple fact is that learners respond better to a voice with a personality, rather than a bland impersonal tone.

Sometimes, a bland, impersonal tone is necessary, and cannot be avoided. That's fine. But too often, course creators fall into the trap of intentionally creating difficult-to-read learning content so that learners will have greater respect for the course. This is simply a bad practice.

In reassessing the tone and language of an online course, be sure to revise well. Put your online course through what writers call "deep revision." Courseware developers must look over the course and make sure nothing looks clunky, out of place, bland, or extraneous. Every extraneous part should be taken out. Don't be afraid to make big cuts and revisions, and throw out whole sections if they seem unnecessary. Especially in reference to training programs, e-learning courses should be to-the-point, engaging, and one hundred percent relevant to what trainees will need to know, such as new skills, new company policies, etc.

In addition, take advantage of all the format and style options available in a course creation toolkit. Choose a syndicator or LMS that allows you to choose your own colors and gives you power over the layout.

Additionally, your online course material should be compatible with the course type. In other words, if whiteboard work, slides, diagrams, and other visuals would be important in a classroom version of the course, LMS materials should include an equal number of graphic images. According to a study by the University of British Columbia, which rated 127 online courses according to 43 criteria, how an LMS course looks can be just as important as the quality of the lessons themselves.

Online courses should be as visually pleasurable as possible. Visual appeal coupled with a clear, brief, and personalized tone, following a formal and consistent structure, is the winning solution to successful e-learning content development.

Public schools can now use Coggno's [http://www.coggno.com]learning management system for free. Create your free account now, visit Coggno at http://www.coggno.com/lms Call or visit:

Coggno, Inc.
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Phone: (888) 585-9978

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Minggu, 16 Agustus 2009

Create E-Learning Harmony With Communication Tools on Your Learning Management System

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Robin_L._Green]Robin L. Green

Say you've prepared your e-learning content and are ready to upload it to an LMS for in-house distribution or outside syndication. To ensure its success on the marketplace or within your organization, follow a few simple guidelines.

Strong e-learning material is based on your own subject matter expertise and personal experience. And since there are an endless variety of courseware subjects, learners and contexts, not every guideline will necessarily apply to your LMS course. That said, one crucial element of a successful e-learning course is early communication with students. This includes pre-course basic training on how to use the LMS and other online tools, as well as how to navigate the online course itself. If collaborative tools like wikis or discussion boards are involved, clearly indicate how you'd like students to participate.

Guide students in course navigation through the use of videos. Take advantage of the easy-to-use video creation tools that LMSs often offer. Video tours are a great way to walk your students through their new virtual learning environment and make them feel comfortable.

The three basic aspects of communication are speech, gesture, and visuals. The online combination of these three elements helps recreate the natural ways people work in groups when they are physically present together. Utilizing these three elements--particularly the emotional signals of voice and tone--allows you to create a sense of trust and comfort for your students.

Another key to successful communication with students--which will ensure their ease of use and comfort with the online course--is the creation of a course outline or syllabus. A syllabus provides a space for you to break down and explain the course expectations and objectives for learners, and should be presented before any actual learning begins.

Particularly for the comfort of first-time e-learners, it's critical for them to understand as early as possible what to expect from a course.

A syllabus should include a few pieces of information about the online course. It should provide the instructor's email, office and/or phone number; the course date, length, and expected involvement; textbooks and other learning materials required; an outline of the LMS and course format and explanation of navigational features; a description of the course content; an assessment and project schedule; an overall evaluation plan; expectations related to student participation; and an outline of how learners are intended to interact using wikis, discussion boards, and other Web 2.0 tools.

In the course outline, advise learners to familiarize themselves with the LMS and the different kinds of information that can be found in each section of the course. Remind them that they will have to check it regularly for course updates and assignments. Be as specific as possible, describing in full detail the solutions for and consequences of missed classes or homework assignments, how students will be graded, class meeting times (if there are any), and any suggestions you can offer them.

Another useful function of the course outline or syllabus is to outline to learners the plagiarism policy. Although most people vaguely understand that plagiarism is wrong or not allowed, some may still be unsure about what exactly counts as plagiarism. And even though intentional plagiarism is more common, instances of accidental or uninformed plagiarism also occur and with your help, are quite preventable. Many learners are simply may not aware of the correct way to cite the sources they'd like to reference.

Along with your syllabus, attach a citation guide that tells how to cite articles, web pages, books, and other published information. MLA/APA style citation guides are easy to find online.

With the help of videos and a well-developed syllabus, you can help students feel secure and confident navigating their e-learning course and the learning management system. Help them feel at home in their online learning environment by quickly and clearly to establishing the features, scope, and tone of your e-learning course. Doing so will also help prevent any potential confusion or miscommunication, and create a harmonious learning and instructing experience for everyone.

Public schools can now use Coggno's [http://www.coggno.com]learning management system for free. Create your free account now, visit Coggno at http://www.coggno.com/lms Call or visit:

Coggno, Inc.

1290 Parkmoor Avenue

San Jose, California 95125

Phone: (888) 585-9978

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School Blogs Can Revolutionize Schools

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Paul_LP_Taylor]Paul LP Taylor

School blogs can transform virtually every aspect of school life. I appreciate that's a bold claim but I'm going to back it up with some illustrations. I am also going to show you how easy it is to set up a complete school blogging platform with no technical knowledge whatsoever.

Before I go any further though, let me define what I mean by school blogs. Although blogs may have started out rather like online diaries, software such as WordPress (yes, it's a version of WordPress that I am going to recommend) is quite capable of creating complex websites incorporating multimedia elements. The WordPress platform makes the production of engaging content as simple as using a word processor, allowing users to focus on content. It also allows readers to interact through comments and this is one of the main reasons why school blogs can be so powerful.

So think of a blog as an interactive personal website.

What I am suggesting is not that the school has a blog but rather that everyone IN the school has a blog - teachers, students, administrators - even parents. Here are some examples:

# Lessons - let's imagine a teacher, Mr Geography. His next few lessons will cover the Amazon jungle. So he transfers an outline of his lesson plan to a blog post and adds in some images, a couple of videos from YouTube showing some Amazonian wildlife and links to the National Geographic website. For homework, the students will visit his post, possibly leave some comments, and then create their own posts answering the questions he set. (Don't worry, there are many ways to stop plagiarism.)

The students have thus had a much richer and creative experience than simply reading a text book. Their work will remain online for future revision. It can even be made public and form part of a showcase of what students are achieving. Not only can this inspire children, it is a wonderful way for parents and grandparents to share in a student's progress. This increased involvement can have many dividends in fundraising.

# Sports - the latest results and performances of the school teams can be shared online through reports, photographs and videos. Again, a much broader community can share in the school's activities.

# Special Interests - this is a broad catch-all category for all the other activities that students may engage in, from dance, drama and music (reviews of theater visits, progress on their own productions etc.) through to IT, photography and debating clubs, The blogs of participant students help their development and publicize what they are doing to a wider audience. The school becomes a much more vibrant place.

# Field Trips and Holidays - parents can be kept informed of what is happening and the whole experience enriched and captured for posterity through blog entries.

I have only hinted at some of the incredible possibilities for using school blogs. I would like to emphasise a few points. Firstly, most of what is produced is almost a by-product of current activities - this is a different way of working rather than extra work. Secondly, much of it is created by the students themselves. Finally, despite the stunning results that can be achieved, this is actually very easy to implement.

I mentioned the WordPress platform earlier. There is a mutli-user version of WordPress, WPMU, that provides the basis for my recommended approach to school blogging. If you are considering how to [http://www.school-blogs.com]set up school blogs with maximum effectiveness and ease-of-use, I would suggest an out-of-the box solution incorporating a number of plugins. This will allow you to focus on the benefits the system can bring rather than spending days tweaking settings to achieve an inferior solution.

Paul Taylor, MA(Oxon), MBA, member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and creator of the [http://www.school-blogs.com]School Blogs website - a resource outlining the benefits of school blogs and the technology available.

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Jumat, 14 Agustus 2009

Elementary Teachers - Make the First Week of School Stress Free

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Honey_Krumholz]Honey Krumholz

Teachers, do you know how to get ready for the new school year and then what to concentrate on that first week? Many teachers get stressed out just thinking about it, because it's important to get started on the right foot.

Thinking about the beginning of each school year always gave me mixed emotions. I was excited to get going but had some butterflies and felt slightly stressed with the work to be done to get the year started off right. I always had trouble sleeping the night before starting school.

I usually went in to school towards the end of August, as many teachers do, to set up my classroom and get organized.

Each teacher has their own routine, some don't set up their classroom until school begins, but whatever you do, you must know what you're doing that first week of school because your students are evaluating you as you are evaluating them.

So here are some of my suggestions to get the year started off right.

1. Classroom Layout

A classroom that is comfortable, friendly and colorful creates a very positive learning and social environment for your students.

You can make your classroom a place where your students want to be with your classroom decorations, classroom displays and bulletin boards. Displaying a student's work for others to see, is also a great way for you to build up their motivation and self esteem.

You can set up your student seating arrangements in different ways, although personally I organized the students desks in groups of 4-6. Eventually you have to socialize and work with all types of people later on in life, why not start now!!

Once your students are settled, allow them to take part in some of the decisions on the classroom layout, displays and seating arrangements, although you should keep in mind and they should know, that you have the final word.

2. Classroom Supplies

Each teacher will order their classroom supplies based on what they determine to be essential. Students and teachers will have different requirements based on the grade but here's a list of the basics:

* Pencils and Pens (for the older grades)

* Ruler

* Eraser

* Notebooks (one for each subject, Math books should have graph type paper)

* Lined Paper

* Blank, 3 Hole Paper (different colours - used for science or social studies units)

* Labels

* Duotangs (many boxes of different colours)

* Markers (a large variety of different colours)

* Experienced Chart Paper (lined and graph)

* Metric/Yard Sticks

* Tissue Paper (a variety of colours)

* Blackboard Chalk (a large variety of different colours)

* Blackboard Erasers

* Construction Paper (all different colours)

* Powder Paint and Brushes (powder lasts longer than liquid)

* Paper Cutter

* Popsicle Sticks

* White Glue

* Scotch and Masking Tape

* Kleenex Tissues

3. Classroom Activities

At the start of each new school year, I set three goals for myself for that first week.

1. My main goal is for me to learn more about my students and for them to learn more about me and each other as well. I do this by using several different classroom games and activities. Here's an example of one of the games that I use.

I call this game "My Favourite". The objective was for teacher and students to learn everyone's first name and get to know some things about about one another. Now here's how it goes.

* To play the game you need a soccer or similar type of large ball.

* Everyone sat in a large circle.

* I would start with the ball and think of a favourite thing, for example "food".

* I would say "My name is Mrs Krumholz and my favourite food is ice cream".

* I would roll the ball to any student. The student getting the ball would say his/her name and his/her favourite food and roll the ball to another student.

* Get the idea? Any student getting the ball would have to roll it on to someone who hadn't received the ball yet. Eventually everyone had a turn. The last person having a turn in a round, would start a new round and could choose a new "my favourite" topic.

2. Th next goal of mine was to get my students focused back on school work after a full summer of vacation. I started with a review of their previous year's work. For example, I would have made up 15 math questions or give the students a spelling review of previous year's words, grammar sheets, etc.

3. My last objective for the first week was to set the classroom rules, explain the student agenda, and make sure the students understood what was be expected of them for the year.

So a few final words - Be prepared, be organized, be yourself. But most of all be thankful that you have a job you love or really like and ENJOY!!

Honey Krumholz is a highly experienced school teacher. She is currently a college supervisor and mentor to student teachers. She provides seminars on her teaching strategies at York University in Toronto. Visit her website and get her teaching strategies on topics such as [http://www.priceless-teaching-strategies.com/classroom_management.html]classroom management plans or more details on her 7 [http://www.priceless-teaching-strategies.com]core teaching strategies


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New Teacher Tips on Back to School Preparations

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dorit_Sasson]Dorit Sasson

The real trick in lesson planning for the first day of school is not to overplan and to keep the tone serious for learning. This means sticking to a routine, reinforcing rules and procedures and even spending the first five or ten minutes reintroducing them in class. Stick to the basics, avoid too much creativity. What students need right now is a consistent routine that will easily settle them into the school year.

I know this is easier said than done. You, as the new teacher, will spend more tme 'feeling' your way in the classroom during the first few weeks and especially during the first few days reading the students' responses, gathering information about their cooperation, and intelligence as a class. You will soon grow to know what makes them 'tick' as a class, who the troublemakers are and what you need to do to keep them when the lesson doesn't go right.

You will be imitating and experimenting with different classroom management styles and picking the one who feel most comfortable with. You will constantly have classroom management issues to deal with and this is where New Teacher Support can help you with tools and ideas for handling that particular classroom management problem.

It is probably an excellent idea to write out classroom seating charts and learn the names of your students. This quickly helps establish a connection with the students and helps personalize your teaching. It will only help you get a grip on classroom management problems before they become too unsettling.

This is where you also come in with your lessons. You should have a variety of worksheets and fillers but keep it to a few for those ten or fifteen minutes when you feel the students have absorbed enough and are passive enough to do some short writing assignment quietly.

Take into consideration also the time of day. Last periods call for more passive rather than active activities.

Good luck to all the new teachers starting the first day of school. Please feel free to email me with any concerns or questions you may have.

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Homeschool - Why Do it at All?

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=A_J_Adams]A J Adams

Aren't we busy enough in our lives with all that we think we must do or get accomplished to even consider homeschool for our children? By all accounts, homeschool done right is hard work and takes dedication to do it right. It's better done on a full-time basis, which means curtailing a regular nine-to-five job in order to get it done. Our income is going to take a real hit because of it. We might find ourselves having to work nights or weekends just to make ends meet unless we can find something decent that can be done from home.

It's also going to cost us more in out-of-pocket dollars for the course materials and supplies that must be purchased to homeschool our kids. We pay for public school education with our tax dollars, but there will be no refund of this money if we choose to teach our kids at home, only more money to spend instead of less.

Would it be so bad to just let the School District continue to take care of educating our children? After all, they have trained professionals teaching and they've been doing it a very long time. Why would we think we could do it any better than them? We didn't even graduate college. We didn't even take any classes on teaching, yet we're thinking about a homeschool for our kids. What could we possible be thinking?

The answer to all of these questions is a very simple one. It's all about the kids.

It's about what every good parent should be considering, the welfare of their children. Not only for the best education they can possibly attain, but also for their safety and personal growth along the way. Removing them from institutions that have become so controlled by the government that they just run the kids through the best they can while dumbing-down the curriculum so they can graduate as many students as possible and still receive their funding. Schools these days are all about conformity and abiding by the inane rules of mass education. Spending hours cooped up in a room of 30 or 35 kids of the same age all learning the same old tired information instead of learning in new and fresh ways that are actually a more natural way of learning for the human mind.

Starting a homeschool for your children would allow them to learn about things they would likely never get to learn at a public school. They would be out of the rat race days of buses, classes, cafeterias and getting bussed once more, No more staying away from home every day for six or seven hours. They could learn in the quiet of your home or on a meaningful field trip to a museum or historical site. They could read outside on the back porch on nice days. They could also avoid the inevitable emphasis on popularity rather than academics. Extracurricular activities also would be taken out of the picture and stressed as being so important like they are in public schools. They could be learning at their own pace, in safe and controlled surroundings and learning about some of the things they want to know about. They could be learning what you want them to. They could become well-educated and confident young people by staying out of the public school system. They could become young adults who would have a solid foundation in both education and life to tackle any situation head-on. They would have the tools and self-esteem to be happy well-adjusted human beings.

Nobody said a homeschool would be easy, but when you break it down, the why suddenly becomes why not? It's a no brainer.

A J Adams has had a keen interest in home schooling for a number of years. With several public school teachers in his family, he has had many discussions regarding current school problems. He's heard many suggestions, one of which was the growing number of children being home schooled. After a thorough period of research, he decided to write a series of articles about what it is like to homeschool. He also owns and maintains http://www.elementary-home-schools.com with his wife and family.



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Rabu, 12 Agustus 2009

Discover the Importance of Reading to Children

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Debra_Proctor]Debra Proctor

I can't emphasize enough the importance of reading to children. By reading aloud to your children, not only will you form lasting bonds and great memories, you will be giving your child the gift of reading and helping them to excel in school and in life. Reading to your children has many benefits. What are they?

Well...a lot of things.

Reading to Your Children:



Gives them a head start and improves their language skills - Children that have been read to regularly are ahead of the same age children in their classes. They have better language and reasoning skills that help them to excel academically.

Increases their vocabulary - By reading books that are above your child's grade or reading level, you are exposing them to much more difficult words. While they wouldn't be able to read these words on their own, with you reading the words to them, they can learn new words and greatly expand their vocabulary.

Improves their imagination and creativity - Reading books to your child that include all kinds of different settings will increase your child's imagination and creativity.

This is a good thing. A good imagination and creativity will help your child develop the skill of problem solving and being able to think "outside the box."

Teaches them proper grammar and sentence structure - Listening to you read good quality books teaches your child proper grammar and sentence structure naturally.This will give your child a boost academically and they will have an easier time when it comes to learning grammar and writing.

Teaches your child to better express himself - Listening to the characters in a book solve their problems and communicate with others teaches your child to be able to do the same thing.

Improves listening skills - Because the books that you read to your child will be interesting, they will learn to sit, listen, and pay attention - they won't want to miss anything. This skill will carry over to other parts of their life.

Prepares your children to read - Nothing prepares your child to become a good reader more than reading aloud to them. It whets their appetite for reading good books, learning new things, going on adventures through books, and teaches them all of the skills mentioned above.

Instills a love of reading and good books - Reading aloud to your child opens up an entire world for her. She will love you reading to her and will learn that books and reading are good things.

Encourages your children to become readers - As your children get older, they will want to continue what you started by reading to them. They will naturally want to read because it was such an enjoyable activity that they shared with you.

It expands your child's horizon and introduces them to new experiences and places - When you read, the sky is the limit. You can be transported to any place and any time - experience any time period and a wide range of emotions. This exposes your child to many different situations that they can learn from.

Forms lasting bonds with your children - Read to your child daily. This time will quickly become his favorite time - time for just you and him. By doing this, you will form bonds that will last a lifetime.

As you can see, these are all good reasons to read aloud to your children.

Begin reading to your children every day when they are babies. Start out with "board" books. You know, the thick cardboad books that babies can't destroy (or at least not that easily). These books are great ways to introduce colors, shapes, animals, rhyme and rhythm to your babies.

As they get older, read a lot of nursery rhymes and Bible stories to them. Choose a Mother Goose nursery rhyme book that has pretty pictures. By doing this, you'll be exposing them to great art work too.

Continue reading to your kids until they don't want you to read to them any more.

Be prepared - they may be quite old before this happens.

Now that you know the importance of reading to children, there's only one thing left to do. Start reading!

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Selasa, 11 Agustus 2009

Teach Your Child the List of Prepositions the Fun and Easy Way!

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Debra_Proctor]Debra Proctor

Teaching your child the complete list of prepositions is one of the best ways to help your child excel in grammar. Learning these prepositions is important. Once your child has learned to identify prepositions and prepositional phrases, it's much easier for them to identify the rest of the parts of the sentence structure. Have your child learn the complete list of prepositions and the rest of grammar will begin to fall neatly in place.

Because there are 49 prepositions, many home school moms don't even attempt teaching them to their children. When you first see the list it seems even more impossible, but don't worry. It is easy for your children to learn them if you go about it the right way.

One of the best ways to teach the prepositions is with games. Games are always fun, they give everybody a break from regular homeschool work, and the kids have such a good time they soon forget they are even doing schoolwork. This is the way learning should be. By fitting in fun educational games, you can sneak in all sorts of learning.

So what games can you play? How about Memory Match, Hangman, Charades, writing silly prepositions stories, and drawing? All of these games and activities are adaptable from one to several children - however many you want.

These games also cover all the different learning styles, so if your child doesn't learn the prepositions right away or doesn't think the game is fun, just try another one. If you have a child who balks at doing traditional school and worksheets, play memory match or hangman with him.

For the creative child, have her write or tell silly preposition stories using as many prepositions as possible -- the more the sillier. Your creative child may also enjoy drawing pictures illustrating different prepositions.

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Pros of Homeschooling

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=A_J_Adams]A J Adams

Some people will tell you about the cons of teaching children at home, but I'm here to represent the pros of homeschooling. Many parents don't understand what goes on at their kids' schools these days. It's not the 1950's anymore. Classrooms are being dumbed-down to allow the under achievers to move on to higher grade levels to keep the schools' achievement rate high for funding purposes or conversely, to avoid being put on a watch list by their state education board. Smart students are being penalized in certain cases because they are being held back from their full educational potential and in certain instances being used to tutor the slower students. This can cause boredom and early educational burnout for the gifted student.

Homeschooling can be tailored to fit your child's abilities and learning styles. Some kids learn better with quiet study, for example. Not many public schools afford that kind of quiet. Others learn better with one-on-one coaching and encouragement. That's exactly what homeschooling is about. Some students get anxious about riding a school bus for sometimes hours a day. With homeschooling, there is no commute. You're already there when you wake up.

Another example of the pros of homeschooling is the fact that you can advance the education of your child as fast or slow as you need or want. If someone has a learning disability for example, you can go more slowly and use techniques to teach that may not be available in public school. It also removes the embarrassment that other school kids might inflict on a slow learner. On the opposite side of the argument, if your child shows gifted qualities in learning, you can feed them information as fast as they can absorb it. You can offer a broader and deeper base of knowledge on certain subjects if your child wants it. They can begin to become experts in fields of their choice or yours.

Peer pressure in public schools can be quite overwhelming for certain students, especially in their teen years. Fitting in and being popular is somehow more important than learning at most schools. And if you happen to be a student with some sort of physical trait looked upon as being different or uncool, you're going to suffer the wrath of the student body. Don't we all remember someone like that in our public school experience? Even if you didn't participate in the razzing, it was difficult to watch wasn't it? You probably wonder like I do at times whatever happened to some of those poor kids. All they did to receive such admonishment was not be able to afford the latest clothes fashions or had ears that were perceived to stick out too much or maybe they had a little weight problem. Even the slightest variance from what the popular crowd thought was cool would bring this kind of treatment. This is another of the possible pros of homeschooling. It all goes away before it can even start. Your child won't have to loathe going to school every day to face this sort of ill treatment. They can concentrate of the joys of learning and feel good about themselves.

There's another point to make. If your child is experiencing this sort of treatment in public school now, take them away from it and homeschool. There's really no reason not to. Whatever their age, get them out of that situation before it does permanent damage in the form of hating school, low self-esteem or worse. Allow them to enjoy learning again and relieve the harassment. You'll both be happier as a result.

To me, the pros of homeschooling far outweigh the cons by a large margin. It's more natural, it relieves the student of enormous peer pressure, it allows for a more personal teaching style and it presents an opportunity for a gifted student to excel. What could be better than that?

A J Adams has had a keen interest in home schooling for a number of years. With several public school teachers in his family, he has had many discussions regarding current school problems. He's heard many suggestions, one of which was the growing number of children being home schooled. After a thorough period of research, he decided to write an article about [http://www.elementary-home-schools.com/homeschooling-pros-and-cons.html]Pros of Homeschooling. He will be submitting more in future articles. Mr. Adams also owns and maintains a website with his wife at http://www.elementary-home-schools.com where you can get a free 10-part mini-course on homeschooling and watch a touching video made by a young man to thank his mother for her many years of homeschooling him.


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Senin, 10 Agustus 2009

Special Needs Children's Education

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=A_J_Adams]A J Adams

It's almost as though homeschooling was invented for a special needs children's education. Kids afflicted with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or Asperger's among other learning difficulties can all benefit from being taught at home by their parents. Some public school systems can afford to hire trained therapists for these fields, but the extra attention and time afforded a student at home by a loved one can make a big difference in a child's ability to learn. It's just natural for a parent to be able to teach their own child more effectively. They've been doing it for the student's whole life and know how to best approach new things with them. They will likely be more patient than a public school teacher and offer the extra time it might take to learn. A classroom would likely not be as able to offer the one-on-one time it might take until a student "gets it".

It's likely a parent would also know better than a public school instructor what manner of teaching would best suit their child. Some learn better with visual aids, some by repetition and some by seeing it done for them and copying what they're taught. It's very likely a parent would already know this from their own experience. They'll also know what to look for when a special needs child is getting frustrated and ready to act up or quit, thereby avoiding a bad learning experience for the child.

If you're wondering what sort of curriculum would best suit your special needs children's education, there are several avenues to get started.

We would first look on the Internet. Non-profit groups who support your child's disorder will likely have a presence there and should have good information about learning difficulties and how to overcome them. They will likely make suggestions or direct you to other good sources. They may even list case studies of various methods of learning and their success rates.

We would also try to find support groups on the Internet for your particular disease. There will likely be several forums on the Web where you can read others' posts and ask questions directly. Parents on these websites are often very willing to share their experiences and will offer help when they can. Although your child is an individual, often there can be common practices that will help almost all children suffering from a common ailment.

There are also many books available about homeschooling your special needs children. Some are written specifically for particular disorders and offer teaching suggestions as well as curriculum selection guides. Most are written by people who have been homeschooling their own special needs children, so they speak with experience and write in every day language, rather than from theory with medical-babble-speak.

If you start with these suggestions, you should quickly be on the road to solving how to best get your special needs children educated. It can be as rewarding for you as it will be for your child since you will have contributed directly to his education and well-being.

A J Adams has had a keen interest in home schooling for a number of years. With several public school teachers in his family, he has had many discussions regarding current school problems. He's heard many suggestions, one of which was the growing number of children being home schooled. After a thorough period of research, he decided to write an article about [http://www.elementary-home-schools.com/special-needs-homeschooling.html]special needs children education. He will be submitting more in future articles. Mr. Adams also owns and maintains a website with his wife at http://www.elementary-home-schools.com where you can get a free 10-part mini-course on homeschooling and watch a touching video made by a young man to thank his mother for her many years of homeschooling him.


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Educating Children With A Learning Disability

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=A_J_Adams]A J Adams

Homeschooling is an excellent way of educating children with a learning disability. The personal one-on-one attention is very stimulating and goes a long way towards a more focused learning experience. It also helps that the parent and child have a long history of knowing each other. There are no trust issues to get out of the way and the learning takes place in the home, so the child doesn't have to be afraid of leaving it to go to a strange school with potentially mean students.

A lot of kids are fearful of going to public school if they have learning issues. Other kids can be cruel sometimes and if they sense someone might be a little slow or otherwise different, they can be really cruel. This can be devastating to some children. They run from it, become self-conscious or learn to hate school very quickly. And who could blame them? Teachers try to reel in this sort of behavior, but they can't be there all the time. There's recess, the cafeteria, the bus and a thousand other places to verbally abuse the young student.

Whether the child is a slow learner, dyslexic or has some other disorder, homeschooling can help. There are many different programs and methods to choose from. Knowing how the child learns is important in picking the method and curriculum for a child of this type. Of course the parent does have this knowledge already and can find something appropriate for their student. A public school may have only one method they favor for teaching, but it may not be the best fit for your child. With homeschooling you can choose what you think will work the best and teach it as fast or as slow as you wish.

To help you out in the beginning or on an on-going basis, there are some great online and correspondence schools out there for kids with disabilities. You can check them out online before you buy or better yet find someone who's used them before. Checking in with forums or local support groups is a great way to do your due diligence on a curriculum. There's nothing like hearing from someone who's already been there. You may pick up some other teaching tips at the same time. It might also ease any fears you may be having about teaching yourself.

Don't forget about non-profit groups that may represent your child's affliction. They probably have websites where you can go and search for any suggestions they may have for teaching kids with this disorder. Chances are they will and they might even cite some success rates by using one method or another. This could give you some great insight into knowing which learning method path to take.

Educating children with a learning disability by homeschooling is an excellent choice. It will be much more effective for your child and can be a very rewarding experience for you.

A J Adams has had a keen interest in home schooling for a number of years. With several public school teachers in his family, he has had many discussions regarding current school problems. He's heard many suggestions, one of which was the growing number of children being home schooled. After a thorough period of research, he decided to write an article about [http://www.elementary-home-schools.com/special-needs-homeschooling.html]educating learning disability children. He will be submitting more in future articles. Mr. Adams also owns and maintains a website with his wife at http://www.elementary-home-schools.com where you can get a free 10-part mini-course on homeschooling and watch a touching video made by a young man to thank his mother for her many years of homeschooling him.


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