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"Google SketchUp is a free, fun, easy-to-use 3D modeling application. Originally created for architects and designers, SketchUp is also a great tool for teaching geometry. The resources on this page will help you bring SketchUp into your classroom and show you some wonderful projects in 2D and 3D geometry."

Doing Geometry? Try this site.

In this post I thought I would share some tutorials for the program done by my son, along with some of the projects he created with it. I hope this will give you some ideas for your own students on how to incorporate Animation-ish in your classroom. Kestrel had just turned 13 when I had him come teach my college class: Math For Elementary Teachers, how to use Animation-ish. He did an amazing job and my future teachers had their eyes opened to the fact that the students they will be teaching will have more computer skills than most of them!

Shailani, for you.

I often get a look of confusion when I tell my students to, "Go mess up, will ya'." Their eyes widen and they turn to a neighbor for a lifejacket because I just threw them in the deep end of technology. Come on, it's only a computer. Using tech in the classroom requires trust. Are they going to mess up? Sure. Are they going to add another call to your list, a dreaded call to the technology department? Maybe. Are they thinking? Absolutely.

Don't teach your kids this stuff. Please?

"f you teach English language learners in their native countries, then finding opp"

Part of the Cool Sites series If you teach English language learners in their native countries, then finding opportunities for them to use the English they learn outside the classroom can be challenging.

A list of links to support the use of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning in the K-12 environment. \n\n(There are many items here, so be sure to visit the additional pages or choose to see 100 items from the bottom of the page.)

A list of links to support the use of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning in the K-12 environment. (There are many items here, so be sure to visit the additional pages or choose to see 100 items from the bottom of the page.)

"This list of online tools was created as a support site to go along with a presentation well before Web 2.0 tools were used to support teaching and learning."

This list of online tools was created as a support site to go along with a presentation well before Web 2.0 tools were used to support teaching and learning.

Students who are passionate gamers can talk a blue streak about the virtual online worlds where they invest their free time and energy. Usually, of course, they get to play only when they're not at school. But why not bring gaming into the classroom? Could teachers tap that same passion to spark learning?

"21st century educators are using more and more technology to enhance the teaching and learning in their classrooms, but the issue of online safety always remains. This article will help teachers find and create an internet safety curriculum to help guard against the pitfalls of online learning."

Useful list of sites to help teach cyber safety.

How to teach your kids to comment in blogging! Weebly teachers this is for us.

"Plagiarism, I think, can be a tricky concept to help students understand. I can understand how an English Language Learner in an academic setting might be tempted to copy-and-paste someone else's work."