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VocabularySpellingCity provides the following sets of correlations to standards: U.S. Standards by State Common Core Standards for each States' Implementation Australian Standards by State Canadian Standards by Province English National Curriculum Standards

VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.

Two New Free Games! Just in time for the Holiday Season - two brand new games! Test-N-Teach (TNT) is our new spelling game and Read-A-Word is our first-ever reading game. Both games are available to everyone!

Heteronyms (also known as heterophones or homographs) are words that are spelled the same, but have different pronunciations and different meanings.

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Our students are isolated -- many don't leave for months at a time; a few won't leave for years at a stretch. Everybody knows everyone else. Many students have never seen a mountain or stepped foot on a subway. Most have never met a Muslim or a Sikh or an African. They aren't familiar with highways and stoplights.

February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114

Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids.

watch the slides and listen to this ex-political prisoner's story.

I LOVE this quote: Let us forget the term "technical support" and focus on "innovation support".

Vicki Davis is asking for some help for her kids. "They have been using Google Lively as part of the Digiteen Project teaching digital citizenship (http://www.digiteen.net), however Google has announced it will shut lively down on December 31st." See her 'coolcatteacher' blog --> http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/ for more details.

"We originally just wanted a really well organized site for lesson plans...but what was born was something much much better...yes, it is a website where teachers can share, rate, and discuss their lesson plans, but it is also a place where they can meet, talk, and network. You don't just find a lesson plan you like, you can meet the person who wrote it!" -Nate

Anthony Williams of Wikinomics gave a presentation on Wikinomics and education

Wondering which open source blogging application to use? This post may help you decided. The good news is that there are several choices.

Great English language vocabulary learning games. This site is adding new vocabulary building games every month.

Improve your vocabulary while having fun. Test Preparation & Vocabulary Building for K-12 & ESL Students. Free Flash word games including Hangman, Word search, Match Game, The Vocabulary Quiz

New Imagery for Schools and Schooling: Challenging, Creating, and Connecting A conference to explore the new potentials in education practice.

A Proposal for Collaboration between ASCD and the Web 2.0 Educator Community for ASCD's 2009 Annual Conference: Learning Beyond Boundaries

Nice wiki about 21st Century.

While most districts are still tackling Web-based collaboration tools from pedagogical and security perspectives, a large number of teachers are already out there using these tools to supplement instruction, engage learners, and encourage their students to become producers of information, as well as consumers of it. In other words, they're experimenting. And here are some of the free tools they're using to do it.