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Privacy and security concerns are among the many barriers holding back the use of social networking tools in schools, new research suggests--but a number of child-friendly applications have emerged. Among these are...

A large number of links to free and public domain images, sound clips, and video clips from Springfield Township, Pennsylvania.

Our goal is to increase the quality of our students' writing skills by sharing knowledge among experts and practitioners. We plan to share theory, practice, and research through our articles, feedback from our readers, and a numbers of web events in the planning as we launch. We will have teachers, writing assessment experts, academics, and others write about what they've tried, what works, how to implement ideas, and current theories on the subject of writing. We also plan to include lots of ideas regarding ways to get students writing more, since that's the surest way to improve writing.

Primary Research is the Internet presence of a number of projects involving high school students and local history. Central to all of these projects is collaboration among research institutions such as historical societies, libraries, archives, and museums. We are based in Beverly, Massachusetts, which serves as a starting point for students learning the process of local history research.

This site offers an introduction to mathematics and its variety of topics. It's not just for kids, it's for everyone (even if you aren't a number nut).

Six online tutorials in argument mapping, a core requirement for advanced critical thinking. Each tutorial includes a number of exercises for the student to complete.

from BBC Education - Select games from 4 sections on the games wheel; Number, Data Handling, Algebra, and Shape Space and Measure.

"Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."

"Find exactly what you're looking for, only faster. yolink's FREE browser add-on tool takes search to the next level. By scanning web pages, search results, e-books and more, yolink brings you just the information you need in only seconds. Sorry Control+F. Your days are numbered. "

A number of engaging and accessible activities about careers in health, television, and the theater

Need to compare things such as number users of Facebook vs Myspace, or Google users vs Bing users vs Yahoo users? This is an interesting tool to let you do that. It produces a nice graph to show the results, too.

free SAT, ACT, GRE, vocab prep

"This is a free range of interactive teaching programs (ITPs) designed to support whole class teaching. The Flash Design and Development was carried out by Lightness Ltd. The games may be used with interactive whiteboards or on individual computers. The materials are based around phonemes and include prefix and suffix materials as well as more general tools such as magnetic letters and numbers."

"There are a number of Facebook best practices for educators, particularly when it involves the safety of their students. Find them here."

"At Mathalicious, we believe that math isn't something to learn, but a tool to learn about other things. Our mission is to help transform the way math is taught by providing you with the best, most meaningful and most relevant math content available. Our lessons are aligned to traditional state standards but, unlike most content, emphasize conceptual understanding through engaging real-world applications." A nod towards developing number sense in a relevant way is useful for our students who nowadays struggle with certain basic concepts. Develop a homework assignment for the Calc student that struggles with graphing the equation of a line.

With this feature, you can mark your videos as "unlisted." This means only people who have the link to the video will be able to watch it. It won't appear in any of YouTube's public pages, in search results, on your personal channel or on the browse page. It's a private video, except you don't need a YouTube account to watch it and there is no limit to the number of people who can view it.

"Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think." This is one of the most inspirational videos that can be shown to a math teacher.

This is an excellent video to spark conversation about math curriculum writing!

"The iPad is finding its way into more and more classrooms because of the growing number of educational apps that can be used with students. Some of the best ones are the new breed of iPad book apps. These apps make it great to use an iPad for reading books in class. Here are 10 of the best."

Could these numbers be accurate for Google's electricity use? Kinda makes me feel guilty doing a search. This is a good science lesson and even a math lesson, don't you think?

" In the final days before Tuesday's elections, Twitter users interested in politics have increased their bursts of 140 characters. The chart below highlights the number of posts related to candidates running for governor or the Senate. "

Shared today at the IU11 coaches meeting