10 17 Ways To Engage Digital Learners Moving From Evolution To Revolution

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10 17 Ways To Engage Digital LearnersMoving
From Evolution To Revolution

• Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• Presentation 2009

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What Are You Reading???Little BrotherCory
Doctorow One of the most awesome books any young
adult could read this summer and one of the most
important novels anyone of voting age could read
in the months leading up to our next election.
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Edutopia Magazine http//www.edutopia.org/
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Headlines in the news

• Schools are stuck in the 20th century. Students
  have rushed into the 21st. How can schools catch
  up and provide students with a relevant
  education?
• Marc Prensky

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Retool instruction, or U.S. will
fail
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• Our classrooms of today are still using methods
  that we used over 30 years ago..
• Marc Prensky

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How do we prepare our students to become not
only readers and writers, but editors and
collaborators as well?Will Richardson
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We are currently preparing students for jobs that
dont yet exist . . Did You Know II-III-IV-VDr.
Howie DiBlasiKarl Fisch .
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Did You Know 5?
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Who said that.

• I am not complacent at all John. I have gone
  through experiences such as this for a very long
  time. I know I am right. I make the good
  argument, write the wise articles, and the
  persuasive letters. And sometimes I feel as
  though I am preaching to a stack of wood. People
  do not easily embrace change. Convincing them to
  turn in a new direction requires a patience and
  persistence that tax everyone. It does not help
  matters that the course we are attempting to
  follow could get us all hanged
• Ben Franklin talking to John Adams , June 7, 1776

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• Educators need to be genuine, authentic leaders
  that will infuse meaning in what we do as
  teachers. We all need to tell our success
  stories, assist others in helping, influence and
  inspire people around us.

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What does the Dept. of Commerce have to say about
education? Where does it rank ?
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Learning To Change..Changing To Learn
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Moving From Evolution To Revolution

• Be Engaged
• Be A Risk Taker
• Dont be affraid To Make Mistakes
• (Fail Fast Succeed Sooner)
• Provide Real World Problem Solving

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The fact is, our young people are woefully under
prepared for the demands of todays workplace,
Ken Kay, President of the Partnership for 21st
Century
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Skills for successhttp//www.graduateopportunitie
s.com/career_advice/graduate_skills

• So what skills do employers seek.
• Core skills which employers seek include

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Skills for success -TOP 3

• Creative problem-solving
• Critical and analytical thinking
• Information gathering, evaluation and synthesis

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• Team work
• Adaptability
• Literacy and numeracy
• Time management and organization
• Oral and written communication
• Initiative and enterprise
• Ability to apply discipline knowledge and
  concepts
• Emotional intelligence interpersonal skills
• Balanced lifestyle and capacity to manage stress
  levels
• Community involvement
• Personal attributes such as ambition,
  self-awareness and an inquiring mind.

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Is this what will happen if we do NOT provide our
Digital Kids with 21st Century Skills?Think Dan
Pink
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Is this what will happen if we do NOT provide our
Digital Kids with 21st Century Skills?
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What needs to change about our curriculum when
our students have the ability to reach audiences
far beyond our classroom walls?Will Richardson

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What Are 21st Century Learning Skills
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• 1. Deal with massive amounts of information2.
  Become self-directed3. Create global
  communications and connections4. Create
  life-long learning skills5. Collect and/or
  retrieve, organize and manage information6.
  Interpret and present information7. Evaluate the
  quality, relevance, and usefulness of
  information8. Generate accurate information
  through the use of existing resources9.
  Information and effective communications
  skills10. Thinking, problem-solving
  interpersonal skills11.Self-directional
  skills12. Use digital technology tools 13.
  Teach and learn in a 21st century context.14.
  Understand Digital Age Literacy15. Understand
  Inventive Thinking 16. Produce High Productivity
  content

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New report urges U.S. schools to create
21st-century environments in classrooms.
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Getting Started

• Who do we invite to the table to start the
  discussion about School 2.0 ?
• Web site
• http//www.etoolkit.org/

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Kids have almost no choices at all about how they
are educated -- they are, for the most part, just
herded into classrooms and told what to do and
when to do it. Marc Prensky
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On or off the bus??? Good to Great by Jim
Collins

• How to change and transform a good company into
  a great company.
• 1. Get the right people on the bus.
• 2. Get them in the right seats- Put the right
  people in the right place in the bus
• 3. Get the wrong people off the bus.
• One way to find out who the wrong people are If 
  you have to actively manage the people they are
  the wrong people.

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Ask the question?

• What does learning look like?

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Creativity and Innovation

• What Does Sir Ken Robinson have to say about
  CREATIVITY?
• If you are not prepared to be wrongyou will
  NEVER come with anything original

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6 min. with Sir Ken Robinson
If you are not prepared to be wrongyou will
NEVER come up with anything original
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Definition of CreativityCreating original
ideas that have VALUE !
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What can I do to change my classroom?
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Lets look at a 21st Century Classrooms
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Change the classroom
My 21st Century ClassroomThank you to Alan
November for the inspiration and ideas

• Team of students
• Research team Google AltaVista Search
• Tutorial Team Jing (Create Screencasts)
• Curriculum Team Podcasts (Recordings)
• Scribes Team Google Docs (take class notes)
• Global team e-pals IVC- Skype
• Contributions To Society - Kiva
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• Need 5 students each day then rotate-every
  student participates in a team

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Rules To Change The World Of Education One
Teacher At A Time
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Think Different..Apple 1997...17 people

• Rule 1
• THINK DIFFERENT.

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Think Different..Apple 1997...17 people
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Name the 17 people in the commercial.

• You have 2 min.

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2. Hug a GEEK
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• 3. Create a Social Network for your teachers
• Start with NING

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http//toolsfortheclassroom.ning.com/
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• Create a Twitter account and start sending
  Tweets

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Twitter
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Twitter

• What is it ?????
• Twitter is a free social messaging utility for
  staying connected in real-time.

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Twitter University of Texas
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• flashcards,read "Poppa's New Pants" complete
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4. Create a Learning Community
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"What is a learning community?" Works together
to share and build an enriching environment. A
safe place to try, fail, and try again. A
learning community takes risks together. An
environment that fosters innovation and
creativity. A way to discuss "Big Ideas." An
atmosphere of respect where people are
comfortable sharing their ideas. A place where
we can learn from our own and each others
mistakes and feel comfortable doing so. A place
where everyone is interested in learning. A
place to share. Exchanging ideas.
Collaboration cross-curricular/division
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Best Learning Community To Join as a Beginner?
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• Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported
  network. We especially hope that those who are
  "beginners" will find this a supportive community
  and a comfortable place to start being part of
  the digital dialog. If you feel that you are a
  beginner and want some extra help, please click
  here to join the Beginner Group as soon as you've
  registered.

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5. Develop Problem Solving and Critical
Thinking Skills
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A well cultivated critical thinker

• raises vital questions
• assesses relevant information
• comes to well-reasoned solutions
• thinks open-mindedly
• thinks about the implications
• thinks about practical consequences
• communicates effectively with others

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Lets solve a problem
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Brain Sharpener

• Developing Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
  Skills

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Try These Metal Plates in Your Head

• BG8S
• ABOK4U
• DNTDOM
• GDAYM8
• 10SE
• FXION8

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SOLUTIONS

• Bill Gates
• A bouquet for you
• Dont tread on me
• Good day mate
• Tennessee
• Affectionate

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Critical Thinking Skillshttp//fantasticcontrapti
on.com/index.php
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Problem Solving Skills A well cultivated
critical thinker ?
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Critical Thinking Skills A well cultivated
critical thinker ?
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6. Start collaborating documents with Google Docs
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What and Why Google Docs?
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7. Provide Project Based Learning
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Students prefer dealing with questions rather
than answers, sharing their opinions,
participating in group projects, working with
real-world issues and people, and having teachers
who talk to them as equals rather than as
inferiors.
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Project Based Learning?
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8. Develop Information Processing Skills
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Evaluating Web Pages

• Reading Web Addresses
• Quick Tips for Boolean Searches
• DETERMINING PAGE AUTHORSHIP
• CHECKING THE VITAL INFORMATION
• CHECKING THE CONTENT

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Learning how to use the 7 key commands

• Using the LINK Command
• Using the SITE Command
• Using the HOST Command
• Using the TITLE Command
• Using the TEXT Command
• Using the INURL Command
• Using the IMAGE Command

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Searching the NET- The Good-Bad-Ugly

• Think about your search
• Checking the source
• Reading Web addresses
• Determine the page authorship
• Check vital information
• Check the content
• Assessing the Web page stability
• Is the information current?
• Are links made from the site relevant?
• Who links to the site, and why?
• What organization/person is behind site?

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The Beluga Whale
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• Howie,
• My 6th grade tech class did a web evaluation
  sheet on the "Facts About Beluga Whales" site you
  shared with us. They still thought it was great.
  They Googled the prof that wrote it and were
  still convinced it was trustworthy. Finally, we
  did the attached website comparison chart with
  two other websites, and they finally figured out
  that it was bogus. I really believe that cross
  checking sites is the key, especially for kids.
  Thanks for the good information we got in the
  class.
• Denise Y. Everhart

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While other species of true whales are
endangered, the Beluga population is thriving.
This is due, in part, to the extremely bitter
taste of Beluga meat which discourages hunting of
the animals.Dr. Anatole Blickson, Chairperson,
Department of Marine Zoology, University of
Finland.
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9. Give Kids A Global Voice and Globalize the
Curriculum
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e-Pals16 million users
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10. Discover RSS and subscribe to a Podcast or
Blog
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11.    Teach Our Students to Be Self-Directed
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Make a Smart board for 39

• Demo -Talks Johnny Lee Creating tech marvels out
  of a 40 Wii Remote Vi
• Video here
• http//www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/245

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Make a white board for 39
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Young People Urgently Need New Skills to Succeed
in the Global Economy

• Headline in the news Nov. 6. 2006

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12. Create Collaborate - Communicate Project
Colorado Books Awards
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http//rockourworld.org/
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Web NING http//rockourworld.ning.com/
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Mrs. Cassidy's Classroom Blog

• http//classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id13
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In the midst of cleaning up our classroom, we
took some time on the last day of school to think
about what we had learned in grade one. Each
child chose themselves what they wanted to share
on the movie. It was interesting to me to see
what each child chose to talk about. As you can
see by the variety of answers, we have learned a
lot this year!
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A Tale of Two Citieshttp//classblogmeister.com/b
log.php?blogger_id1337

• I was recently contacted by Travis MacLeod, who
  teaches in Seosan City, South Korea, to see if we
  could do a partnership between our classrooms.
  Since they are in school while we are in bed
  sleeping, we couldn't use Skype. We decided to do
  an exchange of videos instead. Each class made a
  list of questions they had for the other class to
  answer. Below are the video we made for the kids
  in Korea, and the one they made for us.

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Hello from South Korea!http//www.youtube.com/wat
ch?vAK2kVS1HD9Yeurlhttp3A2F2Fclassblogmeiste
r.com2Fblog.php3Fblogger_id3D1337featureplaye
r_embedded
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13. Discover Delicious/Diigo. Social
Bookmarking
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14. IVC Interactive Video Conferencing
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IVC - Skype Global Connections
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I.V.C. Equipment
Polycom VSX 7000 Camera
Tandberg videoconferencing Solutions
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SKYPE
WEB Cameras - 19.95 - 89.95

• 49.99 camera SkypeIVC-WebCast

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Vidyos conferencing solutions are the first to
take advantage of the most recent enhancement to
the H.264 standard for video compression
Scalable Video Coding (SVC)
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Check out a IVC
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Span-O-Ramics-Durango High School
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Virtual Field Trip
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15. Staff developmentMarket PlaceWorkshopsEdu
cational Leaders
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• 16. Integrate Proof of Concept into ALL Staff
  Development

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Proof of Concept

• Consider a tool you want to explore
• Select a partner to create a "mock up" of
  something you might use in your role as an
  educatoror that students might create
  themselves.
• Consider collaborating with others who teach
  different grades or different subjects Remember
  you need to have a product in 30 minutes, so
  don't let little details bog you down.

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• Create a proof-of-concept that meets the
  following criteria
• Utilizes at least one Web 2.0 tool
• Is tailored for a specific educational purpose
• Illustrates how you or students would use the
  tool
• Demonstrates the concept sufficiently that other
  educators might implement it

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17. Make a connection and contribution to society
..what can I do to change the world ?
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Fresh Faces of PhilanthropyA Fla. Boy, 11, Helps
Fight Homelessness Through Walk To D.C., Part Of
a Growing Trend of Youths Who Reach Out
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http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic
le/2009/07/11/AR2009071102667.html

• Zach started his own nonprofit organization four
  years ago after a hurricane hit Florida. He asked
  his mother if they could donate their water
  bottles, and he gathered more from neighbors, an
  earnest little redheaded boy pulling his red
  wagon behind him. By the end, they had 27
  truckloads of aid.

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• Zach has met three presidents and was invited to
  President George W. Bush's farewell address this
  winter. Last night, he was scheduled to visit
  Elton John at his concert at Nationals Park and
  accept a 25,000 check. And an Emmy-award winning
  journalist, Michael Guillen, is making a 5
  million film about the Little Red Wagon.

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http//www.kidsareheroes.com/index.html
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Make a connection to society ..what can I do to
change the world ?
Meet Maura age 11
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And finally

• Are YOU capable of bringing about this change?

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If you are that ONE..

• from the book The Backdoor to Enlightenment
• Eight Steps to Living Your Dreams and Changing
  Your World

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Will you be the 10th person?

• For every nine people who denounce innovation,
  only one will encourage it.
• For every nine people who do things the way they
  have always been done, only one will ever wonder
  if there is a better way.
• For every nine people who stand in line in front
  of a locked building, only one will ever come
  around and check the back door.
• Our progress as a species rests squarely on the
  shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are
  satisfied with things they are told are valuable.
  
• Person 10 determines for himself what has value.

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Lets Change The World
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Think Different.
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Empowering The Educational Leader
Change Is Good-You Go First

• Howie DiBlasi
• Emerging Technologies Evangelist
• Digital Journey
• howie_at_frontier.net
• www.toolsfortheclassroom.com
• Presentation 2009

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