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Another awesome source for learning coding.

June 4, 2009: "Engaging the Digital Generation: Insights from Kids, Teachers, and Parents" Host: Amy Erin Borovoy(1), video programming producer, Edutopia Presenters: Nichole Pinkard, Founder, Digital Youth Network(2) and director of Innovation, University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute and Vicki Davis, Teacher, blogger(3), and IT director at Westwood Schools Today's students use digital media in ways hardly imaginable just a few years ago, revolutionizing how kids create, collaborate, and teach one another. Join us for a stimulating discussion with innovative educators, parents, and students from the Digital Generation Project(4) as they share practical tools and strategies for engaging the digital learner.

If you are looking for a virtual group that is focused on the first 5 years of practice check out this one hosted by Edutopia. The New Teacher Connections group " . . . is designed to allow new teachers and veterans alike to connect and share that sense of community that is so important in the first years." I think this is a fanatastic "brick" that should be used when building the first layer of "your PLN wall." I love metaphors

This post suggest five educator "Be-Attitudes" related to being a connected educator. This 5 "be attitudes" are directed at new teachers. I am interested in what people think of this "Be-Attitudes."

Lesson plans written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from the United States. Activities, free materials, fact sheets, and math lesson plans.

I encourage you all to see if you can get into workshops led by this group -- the Flipped.edu group. They are super K-12 teacher friendly and impressively leading edge -- and fun. 

Great tool for "instant" interaction among students that have technology -- or for the teacher if you quick want some materials to "hang" together so you can share them. 

Free Biology Lesson Plans Lesson Plans Inc. is an online warehouse of lesson plans that were created by our team at Lesson Plans Inc. or teachers all over the United States. The majority of the lessons were designed for high school science teachers, but we have many middle school, and elementary school lesson plans.

many teachers use facebook effectively in the classroom

An unforgettable portrait of four students in crisis and the teachers, counselors, and principal waging a daily, personal struggle to get them to graduation. What does it take to save a student?

Free tools for transfering text to speech. Pretty amazing.

This list of digital story telling tools has some new ones in it. I've found these very useful for asking students to represent something they've learned. For instance, in an Ed Psych course I had students choose one concept and create a children's story about it. Just as easily could be about concepts in physics, biology, math etc.

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This website has many model eliciting activities and includes all teacher and student resources.

The Biology Corner is a resource site for biology and science teachers. It contains a variety of lessons, quizzes, labs, web quests, and information on science topics. You can find lessons related to biology topics in the links listed under "topics" on the sidebar. Topics include: Ecology, Genetics, Anatomy, Cells, Scientific Method, and Evolution.

Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents. The appearance makes it look like it's for a younger audiende, but some of the content is a nice suppliment to High School material.

Very interesting article about a new teacher discovering that traditional lecture does not work, and then completely changing his teaching practices.

I thought this might be useful for the math teachers in the group.