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VEA - VEA 2015 Legislative Agenda The VEA Board of Directors has approved the following legislative agenda for the 2015 session of the Virginia General Assembly. Support for low-performing schools The Norfolk Circuit Court ruled the Opportunity Education Institution (OEI) unconstitutional, and the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) has recommended OEI be repealed. Virginia must find new ways to assist low-performing schools, something that cannot be successfully addressed by the schools alone.

National Association for the Education of Young Children Molecules Molecules is an application for the iPhone, iPod touch, and now iPad that allows you to view three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulate them using your fingers. You can rotate the molecules by moving your finger across the display, zoom in or out by using two-finger pinch gestures, or pan the molecule by moving two fingers across the screen at once. The combination of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad's unique multitouch input system and the built-in OpenGL ES 3-D graphics capabilities enable you to feel like you are manipulating the molecules themselves with your fingers. New molecules can be downloaded from the RCSB Protein Data Bank ( an international repository of biological molecules and their 3-D structures, or NCBI's PubChem, a public database of compounds.

▶ Microsoft SkyDrive: Your ultimate starter's guide It's become incredibly easy to compute while you commute. Our laptops, tablets and even smartphones offer productivity functions ranging from excellent to serviceable, and pervasive broadband (hello 4G!) gives us the connectivity speeds we need to quickly summon up documents and data from the cloud. That's how it works in theory, at least. Efficiently accessing all of your personal data in the cloud is rarely quite as simple as it sounds.

Education The Henry Ford is a Legendary Place Huge and inspiring, it's filled with an unparalleled collection of over 26 million artifacts cataloging the human stories that make up American History. It's a place where students can come face-to-face with the tales of the inventors, scientists and social visionaries who steered and are steering America into a place of global pre-eminence. CEAonline NSTA: The role of e-learning in science education Introduction The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) supports and encourages the use of e-Learning experiences for preK–16 science students, as well as for science educators engaging in professional development in the traditional, informal, or distance learning environment. NSTA defines e-Learning as the effective learning process created by combining digitally delivered content with learning support and services (Waller 2001). E-Learning can and should significantly enhance science teaching and learning. E-Learning is an increasingly prevalent, viable, and fully recognized method for teaching and learning science (Dede, Brown-L’Bahy, Ketelhut, and Whitehouse 2004). NSTA supports e-learning as a promising way to

Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement Critical Issue: Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement Contents Issue Context NSTA High School Attention high school science teachers! We need you! Do you have a favorite lesson plan or teaching strategy you'd like to share with teachers from across the country? If so, please participate in the High School Hodge-Podge Share-a-Thon, 8–9:30 a.m., April 1, at the NSTA national conference in Nashville. You’ll present your activity/lesson at a table set up at the Omni Nashville Hotel, Room "Broadway F." Ideally, your presentation will take 8–12 minutes and will be repeatable at your table over the course of 90 minutes.

Smartboard in the Classroom SMART Technologies An online community for educators using SMART products. SMART Technologies Website (Download Notebook Example) (Download Notebook Example) AAAS app list Apps are the latest way to connect users to information via tablet computers and smartphones. These programs offer users the opportunity to hold science in their hands and put quality resources in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics literally at their fingertips. Science NetLinks is in the early stages of gathering and reviewing STEM-related apps for both the iPad and the Android. Please check back often as we expect to add new app-related tools on a regular basis. Filter Resources by Grade: Tools

I Love That Teaching Idea! Five science apps to check out in 2013 From tiny molecules to gigantic planets, science apps can help you to explore the world in new ways. Five science apps that you should check out in 2013 if you haven’t already are Star Walk, SciSpy, NOVA Elements, What’s Invasive and NASA App. Star Walk. Star Walk is an award-winning stargazing guide that was developed by Vito Technology. The app helps you to locate and identify over 20,000 objects in the night sky including stars, constellations, planets and satellites. This app has been on the market for a few years now so you may already have it.