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This week’s “Site of the Week” is CollegeAbacus.com, which
allows students to type in information about their financial aid
awards for a clearer explanation of what their college costs will
be.
We also highlight six steps to effective teacher development and
evaluation—and three free resources for flipping your classroom.
Regards,
Dennis Pierce, Editor dpierce@eschoolnews.com
Tweet me @eSN_Dennis
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Newslines
Some see us as education’s odd couple—one, the president of a
democratic teachers’ union; the other, a director at the world’s
largest philanthropy. [ Read More ]
The flipped classroom is an education trend that has generated a
lot of buzz, but some educators have struggled to create or find
videos that are both short enough and engaging enough to hold
students’ attention. Yet, three free resources can help educators do
that—and more. [ Read More ]
Grant
Alert of the Week
Current
Site of the Week
Do your students need help demystifying
college loans? A website called CollegeAbacus.com might be able to
help.
With college acceptance letters in the mail, many high school
seniors also will be receiving notice of financial aid awards. These
could include scholarships, work-study offers and loans, or some
combination of all three. [ Read More ]
App of
the week
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Name:
Super Duper Storymaker
What is
it? StoryMaker allows students to create their own
picture books with a variety of media—more than 800 stock images as
well as personal illustrations, narrations and sound effects.
Features:
StoryMaker has two screens—Create Story and Tell
Story. In Create Story, students create their own stories and can
then edit them. In Tell Story, students can read, tell or discuss
stories. With the StoryMaker PRO version, teachers can save, print
and email stories to parents or other teachers.
[ Read More ]
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Grants
& Funding
When I started writing education grants nearly 20 years ago,
many funders would hold Request for Proposals (RFP) workshops.
During these workshops, they would review the RFP for a grant
program and answer questions from potential applicants. (I remember
a few workshops where program officers read the RFP word-for-word.
As you can imagine, these were pretty hard to sit through.) [ Read More ]
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