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A fun little read that was given a top score by an automated grader.  

From 2010, but still an interesting read about teacher evaluations.

Something to get you thinking...

Despite the provocative headline, did you get the feeling that they were telling you what you already know about quality schools? And unless I just read right past it, I don't think the researcher interviewed parents as part of what leads to academic success, which I thought was interesting since he seems to have researched just about every other group. Thanks for posting--I always enjoy reading stuff like this!

I agree with you Holly. Once again, it's hard to quantify exactly what happens in education. The major issue always has been that public never gets to the heart of the research and basis their opinions on fancy titles and pretty pictures/graphs.

From 2010, but still a good read...

Cool site to view and read newspapers from around the world!

Interesting to read comments that students make about their teachers and technology use in schools.

Great getting-started guide for finding, reading, and publishing ebooks

I think Sheila will find this interesting. She wants to create ebooks for her classes.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology.

really cool online comic creator, the interface is fun to use and very intuitive.  It is obviously geared toward students with a great look and even an embedded music player.  I love the details on this site, including the headline "Reading isn't only in books, it's everywhere!".  Using the Graphic Novel Creator, students can create their own multi-page graphic novels with interesting backgrounds, characters, props, and customized text.  The graphic novels can be saved and printed out.

Online bulletin board that anyone can read or post sticky notes on. Allows notes to be monitored before being placed on the board (great feature if students are allowed to post notes.

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device.

Parapal Online contains a variety of interactive English exercises. They are designed to improve your listening, writing, reading, vocabulary and grammar skills. It also includes software for schools and teachers to use.

n Time & Place is a growing library of teaching materials for classroom, distance, or home use focusing on selected topics in American history. You will find many traditional reading, map, and photo related resources, but you will also find GIS (Geographic Information System) data and activities as well. All of the materials can be used individually or as a whole to build a unit on each topic in a way that best suits your and your students' needs.

Interesting  read about the "highs" and "lows" of Facebook

Nice to see Read, Write for Google in here......

Interesting...read through the entire article...