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"According to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center, most of those hyperusers are young Latinos and blacks."

via Mr. Byrne http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/11/teaching-with-contests.html

via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/07/math-tool-chest-math-games-in-two.html

* Pre-register your students so they can sign in without requiring an email address.
* View and download content created by your students.
* Use the site advertising-free.

BigHugeLabs is proud to assist you with your education goals.

It's a link dump but has some great gems. Check out Orisinal for some a good games site even for in school.

In the classroom, classical music can be an exciting tool. The Classics for Kids® lesson plans and teaching resources give teachers practical, effective plans and activities that use classical music to help children learn. and meet national and state standards. They are based on National Standards for the Arts and state Academic Content Standards for Music, as well as on Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The materials also incorporate various philosophies, including those of Orff, Dalcrose, and Kodaly.

We've heard many ingenious ways that teachers have used Google Docs in the classroom. Here are just a few:

* Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your students record their group projects together in a single doc.
* Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data you can think of using an easily accessible, always available spreadsheet.
* Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a document shared with you. You can check up on their work at any time, provide insight and help using the comments feature, and understand better each students strengths.
* Create quizzes and tests using spreadsheets forms, your students' timestamped answers will arrive neatly ordered in a spreadsheet.
* Encourage collaborative presentation skills by asking your students to work together on a shared presentation, then present it to the class.
* Collaborate on a document with fellow teachers to help you all track the status and success of students you share.
* Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a single document.
* Track and organize cumulative project data in a single spreadsheet, accessible to any collaborator at any time.

Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.

via http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=3320

Thinking is a process where we have to:

* create new connections
* look for meaning behind the facts.
* analyze in order to understand.

These are the goals of SuperThinking!

This is a listing of 3rd grade SOL practice test for Virginia

All games here were made by Exuberant Games. Each game goes through important information for a certain subject matter for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The math games are great if you need to review your math facts for addition, subtraction , or division. Be sure to check out our new games for other subjects.

* English games to review parts of speech
* Reading games to help learn sight words
* Science tutorials and games are coming soon!

via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/04/fun-4-brain-great-educational-games.html