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This site lets you create your own name tags ( you can type a name in or draw). You can also see innovative designs that others have made. You can save the name tag as an image or print it out. You can also print out a multiple name tags. Besides the obvious uses, these name tags can be used in classroom activities where students are portraying an historical or literary figure. Students could also play a 20 questions game and reveal their person or concept to the other when guessed. Students could also have tag placed on their back and receive clues from other students as their "identity."

The B.Y.E. Top 100 video series is a collection of free, upbeat videos (each under five minutes) that focus on classroom management, team building, and leadership.

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Schools will punish students who do not display proper behavior, but they rarely model the right behavior, rendering the punishment useless. Social studies content allows for character exploration as a reasonable tangent, making it the social studies teacher's responsibility to incorporate it when possible.

You can find them in the most innocent settings. The dinner table, the classroom, during evening homework hour or an otherwise quiet family walk. Clicking, clacking, beeping, buzzing and whirring. This maneuvering marauder? Mobile phones equipped with text messaging. These devices are exploding in use among the current generation and teens seem programmed to use them constantly. A happy medium exists. Commonsense and responsible use of technology is within reach. To many parents the mobile culture is unfamiliar. We're hosting a Generation Mobile forum next Tuesday bringing together teens, parents, educators and experts. During this event we'll do our best to help parents navigate these challenging issues. We'll discuss cyberbullying, sexting, over use, privacy, and texting-while-driving. The Pew Internet and American Life project will present their findings from a landmark study, "Kids and Mobile Phones."

Ice Breakers is a no frills site with tons of free instructions about many useful icebreakers, group games, and team building activities. This is a great place to find activities for the classroom. The site is uber-plain and filled with ads, but the content is strong enough to still recommend it to educators.

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