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Thursday, January 24, 2008

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New project gives educators a forum to communicate and collaborate with their peers worldwide.
By Laura Devaney, Associate Editor.

Teachers across the United States will have an opportunity to communicate and collaborate with top-notch educators from all over the world through Microsoft Corp.'s Innovative Teachers Network (ITN), a new online forum that promotes the exchange of ideas and methods on how best to incorporate technology into the classroom effectively.
The ITN is part of Microsoft's Partners in Learning (PiL) initiative, a program that gives educators the resources, training, and content they need to complement classroom technology and allow students to reach their full potential.

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New federal web site aims to link research with practice
The U.S. Department of Education has launched a new website aimed at giving educators advice about effective teaching practices and examples of ways to implement these practices to improve student achievement.
Called "Doing What Works," the new site offers a user-friendly interface to help users quickly locate teaching practices that have been found effective by the department's research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, and similar organizations.

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