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• iboard: Visual Numbers

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: Visual Numbers is another great sample application from iboard for interactive whiteboards.  Visual Numbers lets students add numbers (1-20) to the workspace above.  You can show or hide counters to represent each number.  This is a fantastic visual for students learning how to count, add, ...
  9 hours ago

• A Not To Be Missed New Website: Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People’s History”

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People’s History is  a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change! As their announcement states: The new site features over 75 free, downloadable teaching activities for middle- and high- school students to bring a people’s history to the ...
  9 hours ago

• iboard: Interactive Number Square

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: Interactive Number Square is another great sample application from iboard for interactive whiteboards.  This number grid is versatile allowing you to hide numbers, change the color of squares, change the start number of the grid, add more or less columns and rows, and choose a step number. ...
  9 hours ago

• iboard: Counting Fish

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: Counting Fish is a fun sample interactive whiteboard activity from iboard.  Students can count fish added to the ocean, add, group, subtract, and compare sets.  Click on “Totals” to find out how many of each fish have been added to the ocean. How to integrate iboard: Counting Fish ...
  9 hours ago

• My Best Posts In 2009 (That Weren’t “The Best…” Lists)

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  Yesterday, I shared my picks for The Best “The Best…” lists of the year. Now, it’s time for me to share my choices for my best posts that weren’t “The Best…” lists during the past twelve months. Remember that I write a “Top Ten” list each month sharing the non-”The Best….” posts that I ...
  1 day ago

• Information and Decision-making

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  Anyone who teaches about markets also makes it clear that properly functioning markets depend on full information.  When all parties have full information, they make better decisions.  As in this case... Once the kids know its the king, the decision is clear.
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• The Best “The Best…” Lists Of 2009

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  I’ve posted so many “The Best…” lists this year that I thought it might be useful for readers and for me to review them and identify which ones I thought were the very best. There are almost four hundred of them now, and probably 150 of them were posted this year. The only criteria I used was my personal ...
  2 days ago

• Pop! Tech Looks Similar To TED Talks

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  Pop! Tech looks very similar to TED Talks. It brings in “big thinkers” to give short presentations. The major drawback, however, is that, unlike TED Talks, Pop! Tech uses Vimeo to host their videos, which means that most school content filters will block access. There are certainly ways to use them in schools ...
  2 days ago

• Bhutanese Refugees Arriving In Sacramento

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  The Sacramento Bee today has an extensive article and slideshow about the 400 Bhutanese refugees who have settled here this year and the 600 more who are on their way. We haven’t yet gotten any Bhutanese students at our school, but I suspect that might change. If any teachers have specific recommendations or ...
  2 days ago

• What Are Small Learning Communities?

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  Earlier this week our principal initiated a discussion at the School Site Council on Small Learning Communities (SLC’s). His thinking was that we’ve been doing them for six years, and take them for granted, but that it’s important to reflect on their usefulness periodically. I think his point is well-taken, and ...
  2 days ago

• National Geographic Image Collection

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: National Geographic is known for their poignant images.  Now, those images can be viewed online in the National Geographic Image Collection .  There are more than 11 million images that chronicle the world from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century.  Students can also ...
  3 days ago

• The Best Articles (And Blog Posts) Offering Practical Advice To Teachers — 2009

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  The title of this “The Best…” list is pretty self-explanatory. What you’ll find here are blog posts and articles this year (some written by me, some by others) that were, in my opinion, the ones that offered the best practical advice to teachers this year — suggestions that can  help teachers become ...
  4 days ago

• Liberty Kids

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  What it is: Liberty Kids teaches about Colonial life in America through a variety of educational activities.  Students can explore the animated “Now and Then” segments which compare and contrast various lifestyles, cultural, technological, and health issues from the Revolutionary War period and life in the ...
  4 days ago

• Reading Makes The Brain Physically Grow

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  Regular readers are familiar with the lesson I’ve done with my students about how learning actually physically “grows” the brain . A new study came-out today that provides further evidence that reading and learning grows brain white matter . I’ll be adding that article, or an abridged version of it, to my ...
  4 days ago

• “Looking At Every Problem As An Opportunity….” Lesson — More Advice Needed

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  When I was fifteen, I met a man who had worked with Gandhi in India. He told me, “Larry, the key to Gandhi’s success was that he looked at every problem as an opportunity, not as a pain in the butt.” Hearing that advice, and taking it to heart, has improved the quality of my life immeasurably. I was reminded ...
  4 days ago

• What Would You Buy For Your Classroom With $1000?

  
  I Want to Teach Forever — Authority: 124
  With the holiday season upon us, I think its safe to assume that besides having a personal wish list, every teacher has a classroom wish list as well. Lets imagine that youve been given $1000 to spend solely on classroom materials .  What would you buy? Im really curious as to what items come to mind ...
  4 days ago

• Vote for iLearn Technology in the 2009 edublog awards!

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 122
  I am so flattered and excited for iLearn Technology to be included in the 2009 edublog awards this year.  Thank you all for continued support, encouragement, and feedback! To vote for iLearn Technology visit here . Don’t forget to vote for all the other excellent education bloggers here .  It is rough ...
  5 days ago

• Creating A Lesson On “Blaming Others” & Need Your Help

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 573
  As regular readers know, I’ve been putting energy this school year into creating lessons where my students can (I hope) more explicitly learn and develop concepts/habits that, for lack of a better term, I’m calling “life” learning. I written about them here — on what physically happens to the brain when ...
  5 days ago

• The Falling Dollar

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 131
  When we teach our students about exchange rates, its easy to draw scenarios showing how a falling currency helps exporters and hurts importers and a rising currency helps importers and hurts exporters.  But here is a very nicely done graphic courtesy of The New York Times . (HT to the folks at ChartPorn .) ...
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• Free Access to Lesson Plans on TeachHUB.com Thru 1-18-2010

  
  I Want to Teach Forever — Authority: 124
  The holidays have come early for teachers! The TeachHUB Holiday Lesson Plan Giveaway provides all TeachHUB members with unlimited access to an archive of 500+ lesson plans through January 18, 2010 . All lesson plans are inspired by pop culture and news headlines, aligned to national teaching standards and are a ...
  5 days ago

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