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Cooperative Quizzes: Learning Through Group Assessment

This on-line “workshop” is intended for instructors who wish to learn how to implement cooperative quizzes with their students. A cooperative quiz is a very easy way to generate cooperative learning. The workshop involves several videos showing students engaged in a cooperative quiz, and an instructor who is commenting on specific aspects of the activity.

Education Mashup Award Winners

View a showcase of some of the best education mashups on the web.

Emergency Management for Schools

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) sponsors Emergency Management for Schools trainings to provide support to school staff and administrators interested in enhancing their preparedness efforts. On this site, viewers can access four one-hour Web casts, each featuring one of the four phases of emergency management: Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. These Web casts can be played in conjunction with the Power Point presentations made available to enhance schools' training experiences.

Instructional Module Assessment

The assessment module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two to three hour class or session, divided into two parts.

Pedagogy in Practice

Pedagogy in Practice offers video case studies in math, video cases in science, and strategies. See links to professional content area standards in practice resources.

Pedagogy in Practice

Pedagogy in Practice offers video case studies in math, video cases in science, and strategies. See links to professional content area standards in practice resources.

Teaching Module on Technology Integration

The technology integration module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two- to three-hour class or session. It can be used in conjunction with trainings of software applications that are used in classroom settings.

Video: Wikis in Plain English

This video from Commoncraft was developed because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe, and includes information on planning a wiki.