Hello World!  We are a 5th grade class from the San Francisco Bay area in California. We have been studying how people get their water around the world and want to hear from you! Please take just a moment to fill out each of our surveys, we would appreciate it.

Many school buildings are in a terrible state. Even in seemingly advanced western nations many old schools resemble architectural catastrophes that, along with post-war urban tower blocks and the shopping malls of the 1950s, have largely been left to the crumble of rust. In the last few years, though, there has been a renaissance in school building design based on a reimagining of learning spaces (pdf) that has mirrored the advance in our understandings of education-oriented information and communication technologies (ICT)

Google Maps with Street View lets you explore places around the world through 360-degree street-level imagery. You can check out restaurants, plan your next trip or even visit the Amazon! Get a demo or browse the gallery to see collections from around the world.

A HUGE amount of resources. This group is a collaboration of links rom the CUE Conference held last week in Palm Springs last week. Highly recommend taking a few minutes looking through and seeing if some of these. PLEASE CHECK! 

My activity on my blog as well as on Twitter have diminished as of late. I still find an incredible amount of value/entertainment by engaging in the online discussions, I just find it harder to make time to write and send out 140 character tidbits.  

What's a word cloud? An attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others. What are they for? Mostly for fun! ...and now you can print them automatically onto items: a great idea for making custom gifts! Plus they are fantastic at summarising large documents (reports, speeches, questionnaires, etc), teaching kids and more..

Some examples of what TEDEd videos look like! 

Science textbooks are born as clunky, out-of-date tomes the moment they roll off the printing press. Research simply moves too fast for the publishing industry to keep up. Digital texts could end this cycle.

From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon's history. Learn more in this video!

Explore the history of the world with Chronozoom. 

Experience Titanic's epic journey with day-by-day and minute-by-minute tweets as if from on board the ship itself. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary

Experience Titanic's epic journey with day-by-day and minute-by-minute tweets as if from on board the ship itself. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary

Below you can download a variety of tutorials that will assist you in the utilization of Math Facts in a Flash.   Tutorials include information on logging in, printing reports, unlocking student accounts and more.

Draw a Stickman PART 2! 

TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. A new site, which will launch in early April 2012, will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools.

Audri would like to say thanks for all the encouraging comments. He is 7 years old and he can read. If you would like to see what he was up to at age 5, check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OhDG4Kxr8U

The thing just exploded very close to our zodiac! Or should I say imploded. And it spitted out big chunks of thousands year old ice to our heads... Crazy! Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica - © Lex Coppoolse 2012

Anyone can wear a beanie, and it is fashion that is part of my signature. Using coach's eye + game ur video + iMovie = has led me to a simple tutorial on doing the robin hood flip to a beanie. Style and study. Let's go. 0 likes, 0 dislikes