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Fun learning site for teachers and students featuring thousands of free educational games and activities that are organized by subject, topic, theme, and grade level.

Free and fun educational games organized by subject and grade-level.

All kinds of online games for many subjects and grades

While Twitter is touted as a venue for timely information and communications, there are situations in which it is desirable to search for tweets older than those listed within Twitter's native, two-week search window. This annotated list provides some options.

Anyone can become an artist by using the Excel Shapes line tool to trace over bitmap images.

Cloud based wizard for creating digital stories. Features script creation, voice recording, image loading etc. Free from the University of Virginia.

Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access. You can enter this site use guest login without registration. 

A fun interactive site that develops reading and language skills for younger students. The web site can be accessed at school or home. It features letter recognition, building sentences, synonyms and antonyms, and more. The skills are broken down into beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.

This is a great website for students to do research on animals. The website features photos and information on a wide variety of species. The wesbite also has webcams and animal sounds from some of their most popular animals. Students can explore the website to gather information on the animal of their choice.

This website has some great information for parents and teachers on how to teach children how to spend and save wisely. The website also features several games and other interactive sections for students to explore and learn more about money. This is a good website to allow children to explore as a center activity or as a whole class.

This web site features online activities for the picturebook Stellaluna.

This article is part of DBA , a new series on Mashable about running a business that features insights from leaders in entrepreneurship, venture capital and management. A lot of people want jobs in marketing, which is great news for those of us currently hiring.

Resume's for the 21st Century. Pretty sure I would not get hired with my resume according to this.

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Connects you to all the latest news, information, and resources on how today's educators are using technology to advance learning.

How to Leverage the Potential of Mathematical Errors Author(s): Wendy S. Bray Source: Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 19, No. 7 (March 2013), pp. 424-431 Published by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5951/teacchilmath.19.7.0424 Accessed: 29-01-2016 05:23 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content do 3 on Fri, 29 Jan 2016 05:23:09 UTC 3 on Fri, 29 Jan 201 ll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 424 March 2013 * teaching children mathematics | Vol. 19, No. 7 Copyright © 2013 The National CounTcilhoisf TceoanchteenrstodfoMwanthleomadateicds,fIrnocm. w1w3w2..n1c7tm0..1or9g3. .A7ll3rigohntsFrreis,e2rv9edJ.an 2016 05:23:09 UTC This material may not be copied or distributed electronicaAllylloruisneasnuy bojtehecrt ftoormJSatTwOithRouTt ewrrmittsenapnedrmCisosniodnitfiroomnsNCTM. x www.nctm.org to Leverage the Potential of Mathematical EIncorporrating arfocus oon students'rmistakses into your instruction can advance their understanding. By Wendy S. Bray elling children that they can learn from their mistakes is common practice. Yet research indicates that many teachers in the United States limit public attention to errors during math- ematics lessons (Bray 2011; Santagata 2005). Some believe that drawing attention to errors publicly may embarrass error m

These tools from Google for Educators, whether old and familiar or new and improved, will keep teachers and students inspired, inventive, and organized.