Archive for the ‘Virtual Schools’ Category

How to Find Education Video

3rd December 2009 by LisaHill 5 Comments

Subject Matter How to Find Vetted Video Clips for Businesses & Classes
Grades: All grades, Virtual Schools, Non-Profits
Quality, Not Quantity
Think about video on the web, and YouTube.com probably comes to mind first. However, YouTube.com can’t guarantee the quality of video content. Here are other resources that provide reliable, vetted video clips. All services [...]

FREE: How to Use Adobe Products in Schools

9th November 2009 by LisaHill 4 Comments

Subject Matter: Adobe Digital School Collection, Using Technology in School classrooms, Media Technology, Marketing, Story Telling
Grades: K-12
Adobe Offers More Than Great Software
Every day, new media products come online providing students and teachers different tools to excel. When paper and pencils were introduced, these tools were a breakthrough in technology. Now, today’s schools incorporate [...]

FREE – Moodle, Creating Online Schools

2nd November 2009 by LisaHill No Comments

Subject Matter: Virtual Schools, eLearning
Grades: All ages, Homeschooling, Businesses, Nonprofits
Growing Open Source Learning Network
I was reading the Economist newspaper this morning, and glanced at an article regarding textbooks. Moodle was mentioned. Hmmm…what’s this? Moodle provides free software for web-based teaching. And its SCORM 1.2 Compliant.

Aha!Science by Learning.com

19th September 2009 by LisaHill No Comments

Subject Matter: Science
Grades: Kindergarten through Fifth Grade

Well Designed Online Curriculum
Learning.com offers Aha!Science and Aha!Math.  For grades K-5, Aha!Science provides good science coverage on:

Earth and Space
Physical
Life

For many elementary teachers, science isn’t something they’ve been required to teach in classrooms.  Many states now require science testing in 5th grade, with teachers scrambling for science content.

Kaplan Acadamy Virtual School

5th August 2009 by LisaHill No Comments

Subject Matter: Virtual School
Grades: 6-12th grades
Middle to High School
Kaplan is well known for tutoring, and they are expanding into the Virtual School Realm.

MySpeed by Enounce

3rd August 2009 by LisaHill No Comments

Subject Matter: Reviewing Educational & Training Videos Faster
Grades: Middle School & Up, Business
Zip Through Videos, Lectures and Lessons
Tired of trying to get through videos to view content? Or is the video running so fast it’s difficult to listen to all the material, and comprehend the content? Increase Flash video speed by 5X, or slow [...]

K12.com Virtual School

18th July 2009 by LisaHill 3 Comments

Subject Matter: Virtual School
Grades: K through 12 (Elementary through High School)
Learning Online
This program offers a full curriculum for K through 12th grade students, and also a summer school program. For K-8, they offer 75 online courses in seven subjects (Language Arts/English, History, Math, Science, Music, Art and World Languages). Parents and teachers will also [...]

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