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From Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers: "good site for creating, sharing, and locating tutorials for all kinds of technology-related things. Tildee provides a template and platform for sharing tutorials with others. Each tutorial you create is assigned a specific url that you can share with anyone. Your tutorials can include any combination of text, screen captures, and videos. Each tutorial that you create on Tildee is assigned a unique URL that you can share wherever you like."

Interesting article about integrating tech into learning

Readers may browse the site according to region, including information on Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe/Ex-USSR, and Middle East/North Africa. Selecting any of these tabs triggers a drop down menu of respective countries. Selecting any of the countries navigates to an archive of all the articles published about that country written in the past decade or so. Other important features of the site include a World Press Freedom Index, which evaluates each nation on a number of variables to assign them a yearly ranking.

"Here are some of his main ideas, in italics, with my thoughts interspersed. * 1. Why do we use report cards and assign grades to students' work? * 2. What purpose should report cards or grades serve? * 3. What elements should teachers use in determining students' grades? * We don't agree on the purpose of grades. That's the first problem. The various purposes are at adds with another."

Study shows students can overcome test anxiety by writing about it before the exam.

I had seen this report as well. It's very interesting that just by writing about your fears you can help overcome them. My son once had a writing assignment and he got very upset because he got writer's block and just couldn't write. Teacher told him to write about not being able to write instead of writing about the actual topic. Thought that was a great suggestion. Son interestingly enough never suffered from writer's block after that.

8th grade social studies created a lunchtime skype series with his students.. During lunch students interview leaders during lunch and turn the interviews into podcasts

Check this assignment out!!!

Fun site which creates inboxes for people from history, lit, and entertainment.

possible idea for an assignment. Might just be a fun way to learn about a world leader or an incident.

Pretty good online text for homework assignments, kids don't need to bring books home.