Lead by Example

As I mentored two candidates through the process, I learned so much about myself.  I think that is ultimately what mentoring should be about.  One should teach, share, learn, collaborate, and create.  Both teachers (Ginger and Sara- I love you guys) were middle school teachers.  One did the Generalist certificate and the other did the [...]

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I know that all schools and districts have challenges.  I believe that a rural school district has the biggest challenge.  In a rural area, many times it is hard to convince the clientele that technology is an important entity in the the students’ hands.  Many people want to see concrete substantial things such as buildings, [...]

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Home | Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English
Organizations of all types purchase our videos for training and education
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A Fair(y) Use Tale | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Excellent mash-up covering fair use and copyright laws
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elearnr
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100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals [...]

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National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
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Why Do Project-Based Learning
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ISTE | [...]

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Guitar Tabs, Guitar Chords and Lyrics – Chordie
lyrics and chords. will also transpose songs and revise for various strings
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Earth Science World Image Bank image bank This is a cached version of http://www.earthscienceworld.org/images/. [...]

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Math Playground
math activities k-8
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A People’s History of the United States
on line history textbook by Howard Zinn
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2. Drawing the Color Line

Why Is it free?
Free stat counter for bloggers.
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Practical Money Skills for Life – At School – Curriculum
Basic life money skills
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Toy Theater – Home
activities for k-6

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YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.
Many people have not read the Youtube Community Guidelines. You should report any videos that break these rules to youtube – everyone should have a youtube account and be able to do this. Today, a student had a bad video linked to [...]

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maths online
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Copyright Laws for Teachers: Educational CyberPlayGround™
Copyright laws for teachers. Answers to common questions about copyright laws in the classroom from Educational CyberPlayGround™.
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Shift Happens — Now What? at Change Agency
Tags: digital, literacy, learning, administrator, all_teachers, bestpractices, edublogger, edu_trends, edu_news, digitalcitizenship, edublog, professionaldevelopment, curriculum, technology

More than a digital [...]

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Exploratorium: Educate
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Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher
Great Web 2.0 resource wiki for teachers.
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Flashcards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet
Really cool — “Quizlet: the end of flashcards as we know it. These are cool and they connect with facebook!!
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Hot Potatoes Home Page
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. [...]

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