Last week, Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told schoolkids to throw away their textbooks to help the state avoid bankruptcy. He referred to textbooks as being “outdated” and too expensive. California currently spends more than $400m annually on school textbooks. Instead of textbooks, the Californian Learning Resource Network will evaluate and list free and commercial online […]
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now many options for using online maps in the classroom. The most useful online maps are: maps.live.com maps.google.com earth.google.com maps.yahoo.com Each have their own good and weak points. Added to these, there is a growing range of tools which you can use to add to your online map use. You can annotate Google Maps with
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