http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:16:06 PDT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:16:06 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=620852 This resource "will help you master the Apple iPad. Get valuable iPad tips and tutorials. Find easy-to-follow instructions for making the most of the iPad, apps and accessories. Learn how to turn your iPad into a practical and purposeful tool. iPad Academy, helping you get schooled and skilled on the iPad.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=757029 ״StoryWalk®, an exciting initiative that combines a children’s story with a popular walking route, was developed in September, 2007 by Anne Ferguson, a volunteer with the Coalition. Ferguson selects a children’s book, separates the pages, laminates them, and attaches them to wooden stakes. She then drives the stakes into the ground at regular intervals along paths so readers can follow the story as they walk the route. Ferguson conceived of StoryWalk® as a way to inspire parents, teachers, and caregivers to take young children on a short stroll that will be fun for all. StoryWalk® helps build children’s interest in reading while encouraging healthy outdoor activity for both adults and children.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=700127 ״The WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) gives out an award in higher education called the WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) award. This is a competition that recognizes innovative uses of educational technologies in higher education. Since 2004, the WOW award has been presented to colleges, universities, and organizations for exceptionally creative, technology-based solutions to a significant problem or need in higher education.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=766989 This paper is about how librarians can help promote the university institutional repositories and what open access is. It contains links to information about open access. The author's information is here: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/hometoc.htm http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=727297 'Scholastic has launched a new website, “Common Sense for the Common Core,” that aims to help teachers, school leaders, and parents understand the standards, and provides instructional programs to implement them.Built in consultation with Common Core experts, the website answers questions about the standards and points parents and teachers toward resources to help them understand what is changing and what is not.“Common Sense for the Common Core” includes:• Answers to frequently asked questions, including “Do we need to use the exemplar texts cited in the Common Core State Standards?” and “How do we evaluate the complexity of the texts we select?”• Sortable lists of literature and nonfiction books for grades K-12, curated by librarians and reading experts, to help teachers go beyond the “exemplar texts” in Appendix B of the standards and find examples of complex texts arranged according to theme and genre—from nonfiction themes like animals or the solar system, to genres of literature like historical fiction, poetry, and drama.• Tips on how to craft effective evidence-based questions, sample lesson plans for using “paired texts” or teaching multiplication, and other free resources.• Professional development and school improvement services from Scholastic, to help districts implement the standards (for a fee).• A special section for parents that provides tips and resources to help support the Common Core standards at home.' http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=290470 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities collaborative with Minnesota K-12, and the University of Minnesota. This is a K-20 project focused on dialogue and developing a framework support online learning through the use of shared learning objects. Minnesota was selected as the second state in the FIPSE OnCore Blueprint Project that will provide guidance and support to states working on Learning Objects Repository initiatives. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=536494 This is a very well done and fun informative site by students for students all about bicycles. There are games, poems, information about how bikes work, bike safety, history, how to choose a bike, professional cyclists, and biking and nutrition. Includes a bibliography. Won the Think Quest Junior 2000 Platinum Award. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=657027 TV Lesson is a free Web Media How-to Television Network (a content composite from 600 Educational Networks) for learning. TV Lesson's web site was developed to promote and showcase the creative endeavors of innovative experts from around the world. Web Media video content provides lessons in the following categories: Business, College and Higher Learning; Cooking; Family and Parenting; Health; High School; Legal (U.S. Law); Real Estate (U.S. Real Estate); Music, and Others.