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Welcome to the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) newsletter. You can now follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and more. Just click the social buttons of choice at the top of this newsletter. You can also click the Facebook Like button at the top of the newsletter! The GLRC is a JES & Co. program built on the Achievement
Standards Network (ASN), The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (the Gateway), and the Open Metadata Registry(OMR). GLRC newsletters will keep you updated on the GLRC domestic and international activities, promoting worldwide expansion. For more information go to http://bit.ly/hVDXuU.
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What People are Saying
"The Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) effectively capitalizes on the investment made by the National Science Foundation to develop an Achievement Standards Network. In addition, it significantly advances that work by connecting the Semantic Web technologies of the United States, Australia, and England. Such global connections are imperative to ensure a long-term education infrastructure for our country and others, as well. Such global connections are imperative to ensure a long-term education infrastructure for our country and others, as well." - Tom Howe, Director and General Manager of University of North Carolina Center for Public TV
"Here's a great site no matter what you teach. Check out The Gateway to 21 Century Skills at . You'll find great fully created lessons along with links to your state standards! You'll find items for at-risk students, webquests, and tons of resources. How about a Harry Potter WebQuest? Study the Skeletel System? How about info on the Perseid meteor shower?"http://www.thegateway.org/- MyWeb4Ed Facebook
eSchool NewsTeachers are faced with daily challenges like: What standards am I required to teach? Where can I find quality education resources? How do I implement these resources in my classroom? And, given the current economic climate and numerous budget cutbacks, how can I find resources at no cost?"- "
eSchool News"The Gateway to 21st Century Skills website provides a wealth of educational materials like lesson plans, instructional units, and classroom activities right at your fingertips. Teachers can discover resources that meet their needs can see how each resource is mapped to their specific state standards or the Common Core Standards. All the 50,000 plus educational resources are made available for free from the National Education Association sponsorship."-
Tennessee Education Association link above takes you to perhaps the best repository of quality standards-based materials and tools for teachers."- "The Gateway to 21st Century Skills"
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What's New
Technology & Learning Magazine, a top ed tech publication for 30 years, released an article in the January 2011 edition of the magazine covering the GLRC day held during the International IMS Global Learning Consortium workshop on November 17, 2010. You can see the article here: http://bit.ly/fQ6PYi
The Gateway was featured as the eSchool News Site of the Week on January 12th. eSchool News is a monthly print and digital educational technology newspaper for K-20 decision-makers. eSchool News Online has over 500,000 unique visitors each month, with over 250,000 registered members.
One of our columns on grant writing was published in the January 2011 edition of the online magazine Project PLN, a magazine started by educators to collect important education blog posts from each month. Our post about grant writing to get more money for the classroom fit right in to the theme of January's issue, "Goals for the New Year."
The Gateway was:
- featured on the MyWeb4Ed Facebook page
-named as a valuable resource for lesson plans on the Education Leadership Association's Education Resources page.
-a Featured Teacher's Resource on Baldwinsville Central School District page
- highlighted on the Tennessee Education Association's Web page
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GLRC Sponsors' & Partners' News
This month the JES & Co. team conducted a training for the Cisco Networking Acadamy team. The training focused on Resource Description Framework (RDF). The RDF is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model. It has come to be used as a general method for conceptual description or modeling of information that is implemented in web resources, using a variety of syntax formats.
Congratulations to the Cisco team for taking such a leadership role in connecting the dots between learning resources and education systems.
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Where can you get educational resources mapped to your state standards?
In the last GLRC newsletter we talked about the importance of being able to discover quality education resources correlated to your state's standards. The Gateway is the oldest and largest digital library for teachers and is sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA) as a benefit to it's 3.2 million members.
Featured on The Gateway each week is a section called Joann's Weekly Picks. Joann is the Gateway's resident librarian and each week she selects and features new educational resources.
Here are some very important recent resources.
For resources for special needs students, click here:
http://bit.ly/hcFV8P
For resources addressing plagiarism, click here:
http://bit.ly/hidLFj
For resources addressing racisim, click here:
http://bit.ly/ffiJQC
Next to Joann's column is Peggy's Corner. Peggy, the Gateway's resident teacher and expert, discusses how to integrate Joann's picks in the classroom. Both Joann's Weekly Picks and Peggy's Corner are updated each week and followed on the Gateway's Facebook page and Twitter for continued discussions with educators.
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Achievement Standards Network (ASN)
Development work on the new ASN Editor is almost finished! Owners of various standards will now be able to easily login to the ASN site and create a linked-data representation of their standards. With the new editor almost finished, we are starting to shift gears and will be upgrading all of the ASN web services in the coming months. If you are an ASN subscriber, you will be getting an email describing the new web services and how to access ASN data when we are closer to implementing the new services. If you are not an ASN subscriber, please email Terry Smithson at
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and he will add your name to the ASN ListServ.
Also, a new Semantic Web mapping tool is currently under development. Want to manage, create, share and export various ASN mappings? You will be able to do so once our new mapping tool is complete. Do you want to align various resource content to particular ASN URI's? This will be your place to do so. Stay tuned for more information about our mapping tool as we start to move it into production mode.
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Get involved.
Correlate your resources to curriculum standards.
Publicly register your vocabularies and ontologies for interoperability.
Invest in future GLRC development.
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For complete details, please contact Terry Smithson at
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| Gateway Spotlight! |
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The Gateway was used by educators in 184 countries last month. To put it in perspective, there are 194 countries in the world. The Gateway is sponsored by the NEA as a benefit to both it's affiliate states and it's members. You can see it at: www.thegateway.org
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