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Middle school mathematics teacher blog with great mathematics ideas and links

Teacher blog with many tips on educational topics

Suite 101 is the world's most comprehensive independent online magazine written and edited by professionals. Middle/high school offers teachers educational information and ideas for keeping up with extra curricular activities. Parents can find information on teen issues.

Need to check this one out.

Elgg empowers individuals, groups, and institutions to create their own fully-featured social network. Similar in some ways to diigo.com, it allows people to create an online community. It even has a social bookmarking facility.

Great for not only the kids but also parents and educators. Includes different options for learning so that children can do what they enjoy. It is a great way to keep the parents involved as well. It displays the range of ages for which each game is appropriate for. A simple way to make math fun.

A fun and free online courseware for kids.

A global non-profit organization dedicated to fun and free learning on the internet for kids 5-12 with courses in math, science, reading, health and computers.

This is the complete educator's reference source. Links to 50,000 quality teaching resources, including NASA, PBS, National Science Foundation. Current teaching tools, help with assessments, professional development.

For those who are looking for a teaching job in NC, this is a very useful tool for researching to characteristics of all schools in the state.

This is a useful site that students can use to research careers they may be interested in. This can also help answer the age old question "why do we need to learn this?" Students can see what goes into the careers they aspire to have, and it may help them to envision their fiture and set goals.

This site is full of games to help students practice various math skills in a fun and interactive way.

Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.

A great browser tool that lets you comment on any web page without needing the permission of the website. This allows you to get feedback from other kutano users. This allows you to express your opinion to others as well.

A great browser tool that lets you comment on any web page without needing the permission of the website.

Power point templates of many populargame shows. You add the questions and the answers and the template provides the backdrop, the music and/or sound effects that help make the game identifiable.

Brain teasers for math

Syvum's Math Puzzle & Brain Teaser Collection contains free online interactive brain teasers & math puzzles with answers & explanations

Private or open way to vocally communicate with students/teachers..."power of voice" to motivate/inspire

create a library quality catalog of books - reviews of books on-line...for "book" lovers

open collaboration

Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. By saving your links and references to Connotea they are instantly on the web, which means that they are available to you from any computer and that you can point your friends and colleagues to them.

reference management...share references w/group