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Boasts About Textbooks Aligned to Common Core a 'Sham,' Say Researchers - Digital Education. PHD TV | Shows | 2 Minute Thesis. We challenged grad students and researchers all over the world to describe their thesis in two minutes or less. What we got was an incredible sampling of their creativity and communication skills. Episodes: The 2012 Winners are: Grand Prize Winner: "The Synthesis of NAViSection" Description: What defines driver capabilities and how to link that capability to safety. Author: Nahom M. Beyene, U. Second place: "Transubstantiation" Description: Protestant and Catholic understandings of transubstantiation may not be so different after all. Third place: "Detective work in space" Description: Theoretical astrophysics and binary stars Author: Michael Marks, U.

Congratulations to all the winners! The Grand Prize Winner has been animated by Jorge and you can watch on PHD TV. Back to the Shows page. Time to Write? Go Outside. Podcasts and Downloads - Maths Challenge. We Give Books. Student Publication : Cornell Lab of Ornithology: BirdSleuth K-12. Mathematical Practices. Outstanding Science Trade Books: 2013. Write About This. Writing Across the Curriculum - WeAreTeachers - Zaner-Bloser. ReadWorks.org. Outstanding Science Trade Books: 2013. Mathtrain.TV Student Tutorials. Emerging Technology. Fisher Science Education | Headline Discoveries. Fisher Science Education | Headline Discoveries. IWitness: A Free Way To Bring Educational Videos Into Your Classroom. Figuring out the best way to bring video into the classroom can be tough . There’s YouTube EDU, TED Talks, TeacherTube, and a slew of other video sites.

But none are dedicated to helping bring first-person stories into the history classroom. That’s where IWitness comes in . It’s a free educational website / web tool developed by the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. IWitness brings the human stories of the Institute’s Visual History Archive to secondary school teachers and their students via engaging multimedia-learning activities. Get First-Person Perspectives IWitness provides access to nearly 1,300 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides for guided exploration. The IWitness video editor gives students the freedom to integrate testimony clips together with footage from other sources as well as photos and maps, voiceover audio, music, and text. Being Tested Around The World. Share My Lesson - Free K-12 Resources By Teachers, For Teachers.

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