This Week's Online Find
During the holiday season, you and your students might enjoy wading through The Cranberry Station, the online version of The Cranberry Experiment Station, maintained by The University of Massachusetts.
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Five Ways to Make Quizzes Fun
As you prepare your next quiz, use these five tips to create a quiz that will help students receive the best possible score while having fun completing it.
Keep Your Computer Healthy
As winter flu season approaches, many of us head to doctor's offices to be inoculated against the viruses that threaten our physical health. How many of us remember to visit a tech specialist to inoculate our computers against the pests that threaten them year round?
What Did You Do in School Today?
Kathleen Eveleigh's daily update gives parents and kids something to talk about.
Learn what Total Reader can do for your students.
Doug Johnson: Tech Proof Is Educational Climate Change Ahead?
I believe a meteor is on the educational horizon that will dramatically alter the school climate and give rise to a new breed of educators -- that meteor is affordable 1:1 computing.
Brenda Dyck: Brenda's Blog The Web and Teacher Growth
Do todays classroom teachers have a shelf life? Is teacher "restlessness" a natural consequence of life-long learning? How has the Internet contributed to that change?
Nancy Willard: Cyber Savvy What's Not Working
Before we can focus on effective strategies to address the issues involved in youth safety online, its important to reflect on the strategies that simply are not working.
From the Reading Machine Letter Matching reinforces spelling and vowels.
From the Math Machine Line Jumper teaches about negative numbers and number lines.
From the Science Machine
Use Hooray! to explore the topics of eyes, vision, and biology.
Check out this week's site reviews: Dr. Goodword's Word Wizard Club
Vocabulary magic for students in grades 4-7.
Earth From Space
An online exhibition about satellite imagery.
Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide
Middle-school materials and lessons on climate.
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Ben Stein on America's Education Crisis
Author, economist and TV celebrity Ben Stein gives his take on the current state of education in the United States.
Teaching With Windows
Windows comes with a number of classroom-friendly features you can use.
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