Lead by Example

• Math Playground

  math activities k-8

  Tags: math, interactive, education, resources, elementary, educational

• A People’s History of the United States

  on line history textbook by Howard Zinn

  Tags: socialstudies, education, textbook, 6-12

  • 2. Drawing the Color Line

• Why Is it free?

  Free stat counter for bloggers.

  Tags: free, stats, count, blogger_tool

• Practical Money Skills for Life – At School – Curriculum

  Basic life money skills

  Tags: math, lifeskills, education, k-12, curriculum

• Project Draw 0.7.9 release (with API, Supporting IE 6+,Firefox 1.5+)

  online auto cad software. Good for geometry and other projects

  Tags: web2.0, tools, design, math, software, education

• Welcome | Social Actions

  A site that helps you find the ‘action’ that matches your interests, so that you can help by volunteering, donating, signing, loaning, and more.

  Tags: social, social_change

  • This site aggregates those social action sites into one searchable site. Are your students looking for a cause to support? Maybe it’s Darfu, or animal shelters, or homelessness, or climate change. One stop shop to find them. – By James Gates

• Harvest of History | The Farmers’ Museum

  Website to teach you about how the food got to you! This is a really neat website for elementary teachers who discuss food production. There is a resource for teachers as well. As a farm girl, it is great to see a site that discusses the importance of farming. This is so important for kids to understand.

  We garden at our school and it is great!

  Tags: education, history, farming, elementary, curriculum

  • Great website for those who want to teach about food production and farming. – By Vicki Davis

• 120 Twitter Mashups and Growing Fast

  CHeck out some of the amazing twitter mashups!

  Tags: twitter

  • Twitter now has over 120 mashups with it. Amazing, eh? – By James Gates

• How children search the internet with keyword interfaces [PDF]

  Children are among the most frequent users of the Internet, yet searching and browsing the web can present many challenges. Studies over the past two decades on how children search were conducted with finite and pre-determined content found in CD-ROM applications, online digital libraries, and web directories. However, with the current popularity of the open Internet and keyword-based interfaces for searching it, more critical analysis of the challenges children face today is needed. This paper presents the findings of an initial study to understand how children ages 7, 9, and 11 search the Internet using keyword interfaces in the home.

  Tags: ad4dcss, keyword search, google, information_literacy, kids, research

• Guaranteach – A Better Way to Learn

  Just received the press release on this new one. $4.95 a month and you have access to videos to help with homework. There is a growing business based upon videos for learning — that is because kids clamor for them.

  Textbooks, and teachers need to see the value in things like Eric Marco’s Mathtrain.tv and other screencasting for teaching. Have the kids make their own tutorials for one another — or you can just subscribe, I guess.

  Tags: education, learning, math

• Top 100 Edu Tweeters | Online Degree World

  Lists do always get a lot of people riled up, but I did find some interesting tweeters on this list to follow. Some of them I wouldn’t add, but some are cool.

  If you want to see some great twitterers — my follow list is around 1600 and there are some amazing people that I’m following who just totally blow me away. (Add more daily.) Just go to http://www.twitter.com/coolcatteacher and click following to see them.

  Twitter is really a great tool for learning.

  Tags: education, twitter, learning, technology, edu_news

  • New list of 100 edu twitterers – By Vicki Davis

• PBS & CR 2.0: Remixing Shakespeare for 21st Century Students – Classroom 2.0

  Cool Webinar tomorrow – Live Webinar with the Folger Shakespeare Library on Wednesday, March 18 from 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time (5:00pm start Pacific Time, 12 midnight GMT).

  Our speakers will present and demonstrate methods for teaching Shakespeare using digital media. The educational activities to be presented were developed by trained workshop leaders and teachers during the Folger’s Teaching Shakespeare Institutes and sessions. Participants will learn practical and exciting ways they can incorporate Shakespeare’s King Lear and other literary works into history, social studies, English, and language arts instruction.

  I try to understand why we cannot use these as credits – they are free and they are announced a few days a head of time — but still, they are valuable learning experiences.

  Tags: education, learning, edu_news

• Ideas to Inspire

  useful google docs presentations

  Tags: k-12, education, activities

• Here’s Why PowerPoint 2007 Helps You Build Better E-Learning – The Rapid eLearning Blog

  Tags: elearning, powerpoint, howto

• TwiTV

  This monitors what folks are watching or listening to on twitter. It shows WHO tweeted it, what they said, AND the media, if possible.

  Tags: twitv, twitter, mashup

  • Now you HAVE to check this out! It is AMAZING!! Caution! THis MAY show things that are NOT appropriate for school. But it’s VERY cool! – By James Gates

• Live from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event

  Live from Apple Iphone OS 3.0 preview event. Really cool.

  Tags: education, gadget, edu_news

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