Authors: Margaret M. Thombs. Maureen M. Gillis. Alan S. Canestrari.
Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Corwin Press
Publication Date: 2008-06-12


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"Founded on a well-established educational rationale, this book takes the critical and challenging step of helping teachers integrate culturally responsive education into their own practice. By using real student stories, the authors spin an engaging narrative that both informs and entertains."
-Tom March, Codeveloper
WebQuest

Foster student inquiry and higher-level thinking with this powerful Web-based model!

Today's educators face the challenges of making content engaging and relevant for students from diverse backgrounds and incorporating technology in the classroom. Designed to optimize content learning and promote greater intercultural understanding, Using WebQuests in the Social Studies Classroom shows how educators can make social studies personal and real while nurturing globally minded students.

This unique guide presents practical strategies for using WebQuests: inquiry-oriented, collaborative student activities that use Web-based information for solving problems through focused analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Aligned with the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) standards, the American Historical Association criteria for Excellent Classroom Teaching, and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards, this comprehensive resource includes:

• Real stories portraying culturally diverse classrooms
• Comprehensive examples of culturally responsive WebQuests
• Guidelines, tips, and step-by-step instructions for developing WebQuests

Reflective exercises throughout make this guide an ideal professional development resource for teachers interested in learning more about culturally responsive social studies and technologically enhanced instruction.

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Authors: Noel Estabrook. Bill Vernon.
Paperback, 365 pages
Publisher: Sams
Publication Date: 1997-01-15
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    The Internet is a global warehouse filled with information on virtually every topic imaginable-news, sports, education, religion, travel, people, and more. To tap into this resource you need to know how to get connected, where to get the right software, and how to use it.Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours puts the power of the Internet at your command. This fast, easy, and informative book uses 24 one-hour lessons to teach you how to use Web browsers, join newsgroups, send and receive email, and download free software.

• Provides extensive coverage of finding access, browsing the Web, email, newsgroups, real-time communication, locating interesting information, and more-for Windows and Macintosh
• A support site for the book will be set up on the Sams Web site-providing links to sites mentioned in the book, easy access to Internet shareware products, and updated material

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    The promise made in this book's name comes through. It's not merely about getting your feet wet on the net--with Noel Estabrook and Bill Vernon's guidance that would take only a few hours. These 24 quick-and-easy lessons truly teach the net, especially beyond the Web to the point where readers will be more at home with more of cyberspace than many who have been online for months. They begin with a demystified nontechnical explanation of the net, showing it in a way that makes perfect sense to anyone who has used a telephone. From there they build on the knowledge piece by piece, adding in an understanding of e-mail, chat, file transfers, Internet phone and video conferencing, the Web, online services, mailing lists, newsgroups, and more. They discuss the various browsers, the questions to ask an Internet Service Provider, Web navigation and means of online research. Each step is small and logical with apt analogies to make points clear and nonthreatening to even the most inexperienced. Each bite-sized chapter ends with a mini-quiz to reinforce the lessons. If you want to not only bring somebody up to speed on the mechanics of Internet use but also provide them with a true understanding of the Internet, this book makes it easy....

Authors: Philip M. Parker.
Paperback, 118 pages
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Publication Date: 2006-02-10
Edition: Bilingual

Reviews :

    Webster's Crossword Puzzles are edited for three audiences. The first audience consists of students who are actively building their vocabularies in either Spanish or English in order to take foreign service, translation certification, Advanced Placement® (AP®) or similar examinations. By enjoying crossword puzzles, the reader can enrich their vocabulary in anticipation of an examination in either Spanish or English. The second includes Spanish-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL® or TOEIC® preparation program. The third audience includes English-speaking students enrolled in bilingual education programs or Spanish speakers enrolled in English speaking schools. TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book....

Authors: Philip M. Parker.
Paperback, 664 pages
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Publication Date: 2008-01-03


Reviews :

    The goal of Webster’s Online Dictionary is to give all people of the world free access to a complete mapping of all known words to and from all written languages. In fulfillment of this goal, Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org) also offers as much information as possible for each word, including definitions, translations, images, trade name usage, quotations, and encyclopedic knowledge. The proceeds generated by the sale of this Albanian–English thesaurus dictionary as well as other books extracted from the project will be used to augment the contents of the Webster’s Online Dictionary....

Authors: Dave Ellis.
Paperback, 402 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publication Date: 2008-01-11
Edition: 12

Reviews :

   

Becoming a Master Student consistently gives students a framework for examining their lives from a self-discovery perspective, and the Tenth Edition continues this student-created, value-based approach to life and learning. The relevant articles, strategies, and exercises throughout the text help students understand their own strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and practice academic and life skills. Students are inspired and motivated to acquire and develop the skills needed for success in college and throughout life.

The Course Manual for instructors offers detailed support for each topic in the text and is tied to the HM ClassPrep CD-ROM, which provides text-specific tools, such as teaching tips, exercises, quizzes, and chapter-related web links.

• Student Voices features in every chapter connect former students with current ones, showing how the skills within the text can be applied to real life.
• Workplace Applications exercises help students learn how to apply their academic time management skills in their future careers.
• Parts of chapters 9 and 10 have been combined into a succinct chapter on effective communication through writing and speaking.
• A new chapter on effective financial strategies and resources includes an article offering suggestions on paying off student loans and preventing credit card debt.
• Updated coverage includes new web links and web related exercises; specific strategies for improving reading speed, comprehension, and retention; articles and exercises on diversity; and more strategies for avoiding procrastination.
• Updated Master Student Profiles include Greg Louganis, Student Success scholarship winner Suny Urrutia Moore, and Isabel Allende.
• Improved coverage of learning styles includes updated explanations and terminology in the Learning Style Inventory feature.

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Authors: Philip M. Parker.
Paperback, 130 pages
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Publication Date: 2008-01-03


Reviews :

    The goal of Webster’s Online Dictionary is to give all people of the world free access to a complete mapping of all known words to and from all written languages. In fulfillment of this goal, Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org) also offers as much information as possible for each word, including definitions, translations, images, trade name usage, quotations, and encyclopedic knowledge. The proceeds generated by the sale of this Nyanja–English thesaurus dictionary as well as other books extracted from the project will be used to augment the contents of the Webster’s Online Dictionary....

Authors: Philip M Parker.
Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: 2008-01-03


Reviews :

    The goal of Webster’s Online Dictionary is to give all people of the world free access to a complete mapping of all known words to and from all written languages. In fulfillment of this goal, Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org) also offers as much information as possible for each word, including definitions, translations, images, trade name usage, quotations, and encyclopedic knowledge. The proceeds generated by the sale of this Kikuyu–English thesaurus dictionary as well as other books extracted from the project will be used to augment the contents of the Webster’s Online Dictionary....

Authors: Robert K. Logan.
Paperback, 318 pages
Publisher: The Blackburn Press
Publication Date: 2004-05
Edition: 2nd

Reviews :

    This second edition includes 37 new pages in a new Foreword and Afterword where Logan reports on a number of new developments in his research into the origin and evolution of language. The first edition of the Sixth Language was a recipient of the Susanne K. Langer Prize of the Media Ecology Association for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form.

The Sixth Language updates the work of Marshall McLuhan by applying his ideas to the communications revolution taking place due to digital information technology. Logan's work interweaves ideas which touch on language, education, work, social class, information technology and management theory. He establishes the theoretical background for his study with a succinct and very readable summary of McLuhan's ideas.

Logan develops a new theory of language by showing that a language is not merely a system of communication but also an information processing tool. He goes on to show that speech, writing, mathematics, science, computing and the Internet form an evolutionary chain of verbal languages. A new language evolved each time the informatic capacity of the previous set of languages was exhausted. Math and writing arose to deal with the information overload associated with economic transactions of the agriculture based city states of Sumer.

The schools that evolved to teach the new math and writing skills gave rise to scholarship and a new form of information overload ensued. Science or organized knowledge arose to deal with the new information glut created by the teachers in the newly established schools. Computing developed out of the need to cope with the information overload created by science and the Internet was the response to the info overload and need for greater connectivity of computing.

As Logan weaves his tale of the development of language he also shows how new educational, social, political and economic institutions arise. He then develops a theory of social class based on the notion that agriculture created the aristocratic class; and literacy, the middle class. He then speculates as to whether computers will give rise to a new social class - computerate class.

Turning to education Logan shows how the evolution of language led to the evolution of education. He explains that the reason our schools are so out of touch is that they are Industrial Age institutions trying desperately to meet the needs of the Internet Age and the Knowledge Era. He suggests a radical new way of remedying the malaise of education by proposing that the core curriculum focus on the generic skills associated with the use of the six languages of speech, writing, math, science, computing and the Internet. He contends that the actual content of the curriculum, the topics that are studied are not important and should be chosen to cater to the students' interests. Once students have mastered the six languages they are then in a position to learn whatever topics or material they require for their work or their personal interest.

Logan proposes an equally radical rethinking of training and education in the work place. He shows how information technology has completely changed the way in which we work and learn; and more importantly, he exposes how the relationship between work and learning has also changed. He explains that one can no longer earn a living by putting in time; but instead, one must now "learn a living'. The only form of job security is life long learning and a set of up-to-date skills that are in demand. His call for life long learning re-echoes the theme of McLuhan's earlier work and that of today's business management literature.

Logan closes his book with a chapter on the Internet in which he shows how this medium recaptures the spirit of oral culture. He demonstrates that the new level of connectivity requires more than the mere re-engineering of business processes such as marketing, advertising, sales, customer support, and market research. According...

Authors: Philip M. Parker.
Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Publication Date: 2008-01-03


Reviews :

    The goal of Webster’s Online Dictionary is to give all people of the world free access to a complete mapping of all known words to and from all written languages. In fulfillment of this goal, Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org) also offers as much information as possible for each word, including definitions, translations, images, trade name usage, quotations, and encyclopedic knowledge. The proceeds generated by the sale of this Telugu–English thesaurus dictionary as well as other books extracted from the project will be used to augment the contents of the Webster’s Webster’s Online Dictionary....

Authors: C.C. Ko. Ben M. Chen. Jianping Chen.
Hardcover, 300 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2004-10-21
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Remote web-based experimentation, enabling students and researchers to access the laboratory anytime via the Internet, is becoming an increasingly attractive way to complement or even replace traditional laboratory sessions. Placing a video camera & microphone before the equipment and apparatus to capture what is actually happening in the laboratory allows the images and audio data to be streamed to the client side. Researchers in different countries can share equipment and conduct research cooperatively and remotely. The authors summarise their research and discuss the development of the 5 web-based laboratories launched from the National University of Singapore. The principles, structure, and technologies required for the creation of Internet remote experimentation systems are discussed with particular emphasis on the integration of hardware and software systems. Also highlighted is the design and development of interfaces and components for use in typical web-based laboratories or similar web-control applications....