What the Tech Surfin’ (weekly)
20 07 2008-
Google Earth *PRO* is FREE for Educators! | Welcome to NCS-Tech!
Information about how to use Google Earth Pro for free! It has some great overlays that I am sure will help you as you begin the year with georgraphy and on into your units on explorers!
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Creatively Speaking: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind | Edutopia
Discussion of how we need not reform education but rather transform it into something new to meet the challenges of the future. Short speech by Sir Ken Robinson that is about 15-minutes long.
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Join PBwiki summer camp and earn a free classroom wiki – The Daily Peanut
This is a great opportunity to earn a free pbwiki for your classroom. Join in with the PBwiki Summer Camp to learn more about how to use wikis in the classroom.
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The challenge… to make all children…feel more than average!
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Read a few of these fellow workers outside of the field of education. It gives interesting insight into the way they work and only a glimer of what skills are needed in the workplace from now and into the future.
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Interesting drawing tool that allow you to draw online and then send it to a friend via email. At that point they can edit the drawing and send it back. Might be cool for group brainstorming.
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WritingFix: Interactive Writing Prompts & Lessons for Teachers and Students
Amazing resources for writing! THis site includes a Random Daily Prompt Generator, Writing Connections for Picture Book & Chapter Book Lessons, Constructed Response resources to prepare students for high stakes testing, Brain-based Writing prompts to access qualities of the right-brainand left-brain and many other great links for the writing teacher!
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Research on Edublogging for K-12 Teachers – Classroom 2.0
Research study on blogging.
