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[ http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/comics.cfm ]Wrap it in the Comics Looking for a great year-end wrap up? Why not have students or the whole class create a comic-style summary of major concepts or personal learning favorites from the year? Find terrific tools and comic starters in [ http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/comics.cfm ]TeachersFirst's Comics Resources. Even primary grades can help create a comic as a whole class activity. Share the results on your school web page or as summer take-home links or printouts.

Tells how to find people in skype

Have you ever tried to find a specific character that you needed for a word document such as an icon of a pair of scissors? Tons of characters that you can just paste into word documents.

Information on a variety of instructional strategies. Site mentioned in summer reading book. Click on "interactive instruction" or either instructional methods links on the left side of site to find specific strategies.

Here you will find a preview of the 276 activities that are loaded on our memory sticks. You can also search the activities by grade level. There may even be some new activities recently loaded, too.

Skype Resource for Schools

Click on Directory to find a list of US schools who use skype

This is really interesting. I wonder if the experiment has been replicated yet. If their findings are accurate and valid, what does that say about the social program we offer to our student? Are we giving them even more of an advantage than we thought? I hope so!