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Like tagging baby names! If I had any desire whatsoever to have the little brats, I'd use this to select names.

"Laments about our schools are nothing new; everyone is an expert, it seems, when it comes to education. While most critics point to the lack of funding or the shortage of teachers, John Taylor Gatto insists the problem goes deeper; we've turned our schools, he says, into "torture chambers." If that sounds abrasively radical, consider this: Gatto, with almost thirty years' experience as a public-school teacher, has just been named New York City's Teacher of the Year for 1989. Gatto teaches seventh grade at Junior High School 54 on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Something of a local legend, he's a chess player and a songwriter - and he grows garlic. He was once named Citizen of the Week for coming to the aid of a woman who had been robbed. He has lectured on James Joyce's Ulysses at Cornell University and has taught philosophy at California State College. Perhaps it's not surprising that he's been approached by a film company interested in making a movie of his life. Gatto once ran for the New York State Senate on the Conservative Party ticket, and some of his ideas are quite traditional: he stresses "family values" and questions increased funds for education. But he's too much of a maverick to be easily labeled. At a recent hearing in New York, he castigated the school system for "the murder of 1 million black and Latino children," and was met with a standing ovation. What follows is the text of the speech he gave upon being named Teacher of the Year."

Probably worth 5 mins of you time. Wow!

Wow! Would you like to feel grounded? give 5min to this this video and you won't be sorry.

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Excellent video resource. They have an entire AP news archive, excellent for history teachers. There are also many fine science videos both long and short.

"This Online Program will help you create an acrostic poem for your name. The program will help you decide on descriptive words for your acrostic poem. It will then turn your acrostic poem into a beautiful looking poem."

"Click once on the name (Creative Commons Search) to install. Confirm the addition and the new engine will appear in the search bar shortly."

This will add create commons search to the search engine toolbar in Firefox.

As the name implies, these are short term cash service offered to the working borrowers of the Queensland, Australia. In the last few years, these services have gained the great popularity among...

Just saw this tweeted today. Enter a keyword, hashtag, or user name to build a history of their tweets

QuizOperator is a free tool that let's you easely create and share quizzes. You just have to choose the quiz name and fill in the quiz options. Other people can join your quiz by going to a link or by searching for it. The score is tracked by the app and the winner will be calculated automatically. Perfect to use during your lesson, presentation, speech or at a party.

This is too funny! Type in your twitter name or a hashtag or keyword and watch the parade!! It won't raise a test score, but it's sure fun. :)

MeeGenius is an online library of picture books that kids can read independently or as a read along. Books can be personalized with students names, just answer a few quick questions and the book is rewritten for you. Each book comes with audio playback and word highlighting, perfect for beginning or struggling readers to read along.

"This wiki was created to easily help educators find other educators on Twitter that have the same interests as them (that teach in the same content area). Check out the list of educators on the pages linked below and add your Twitter name to the appropriate list too. "

interesting list...

Reader of JohnJonston created a simple cc flickr search engine that puts out a thumbnail image as well as a citation and linkback information

stinto offers you a comfortable, yet also easy to use chat, which you can create with one click and which will be deleted after a longer period of inactivity.

a simple chat service that does not require chat participants to register or create their own user name or password. To use Stinto one person establishes the chat and then invites others to join the chat by sharing the unique url for the chat.

Finally, a barebones web-based videoconference option!

Name an online room, then just tell people to meet you in that room. No software to install or complicated settings. MIght want to have a pair of headphones handy.

Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

Make fake newspaper clippings

Students enter a headline, newspaper name, date, and news story and can save the generated image of their story in an authentic newspaper.

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