THINKFINITY - WEBSITE

THINKFINITY.ORG is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Also Verizon Thinkfinity's goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training. So it is an innovative tool that provides educators with creative, interactive resources to enhance the curriculum and improve student learning.

Thinkfinity offers FREE educational resources that provide:

• On-line portal to over 55,000 free resources developed through research-based best practices in education

• Engaging, standards-based lessons on a variety of different topics

• Content specific to grade levels and learning styles

• New teaching strategies to use inside and outside the classroom

• Interactive games, tools, and activities that make learning fun

• Resources to strengthen problem-solving, creativity, and critical thinking skills

• Homework help

• Provide teachers with the tools and materials necessary to locate and use online resources effectively.

• Help educators work with their peers to create useful lesson plans, activities and research exercises.

• Leverage a scalable training model to produce the greatest educational impact.

      Thinkfinity Literacy Network (TLN) is part of Thinkfinity.org, the Verizon Foundation’s signature education and literacy platform.  TLN features content specific to the adult and family literacy communities.  It offers teachers, volunteers, parents, community groups, adult students and program administrators free online courses, best practices, program assessment tools, teaching and learning tools, model programs that demystify technology for parents, and abundant research highlighting the importance of literacy development across the life span.  All TLN content is free and is developed and approved by leading literacy experts like the American Library Association, National Center for Family Literacy and ProLiteracy Worldwide.

    The TranACT Multilingual Library of forms is a collection of state approved letters with their equivalent translation to up to 21 foreign languages helpful for school management communication needs. The library also includes the forms for compliance with the NCLB translated into the six more common languages in Georgia and a roadmap to assist administrators decide the forms and chronological order of the notifications going out to the schools.
    In this website you'll find all the tools you need to organize your resources, network with friends and other teachers, and share ideas, plans and advice with others in the education community. On the other hand Families and kids of all ages will also find excellent resources for practice, play, projects and reports on thinkfinity.org. Search for a specific topic, or choose from recommended activities, maps, games, reading lists and homework help.
   

     Besides it offers to Teachers Tools for Integrating Technology provides technology-rich tools from sites that are frequently used by educators in creating teaching and learning activities. Links to these sites include access to quiz generators, course & lesson authoring tools, flashcards, testing, surveying, web authoring, podcasting, presentation tools and more. Parents will find resources to strengthen problem-solving, creativity, critical thinking skills, and homework help.

• Manipulating photos for specific effect

• Composing with images and with video diaries

• Pairing film and print texts in literature study

• Using storyboards and basic cinematic techniques to visualize literary texts

• Creating video games as a tool for in-depth plot analysis

• Analyzing the music industry through an exercise in artist promotion

• Exploring the use of the video news release in local and national news broadcasts

• Detecting bias in print and broadcast news

  
For more information, visit:
    www.thinkfinity.org
    http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/4-ri-schools-put-on-their-thinkfinity-caps-98423694.html
    http://www.educationtechnologyblog.com/1/post/2010/08/a-second-look-at-thinkfinity.html

COMMENTS

     This website is a powerful tool for teaching and learning any language, since it offers different strategies that help students, teachers and others.  So it is necessary that the users have the opportunity of learning how use it. Owing to every day the technology advance and we need to look for several ways for improving our intellectual. In fact thinkfinity is an amazing way for sharing and getting ideas about education through the web.