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I think this is really neat and I agree with it. My Creative Writing/IB English 11-12 teacher from high school has a facebook page, a personal one, and she is friends with alot of her teacher friends, current students and student alumni. Not only do we get to keep in touch with her, but she also asks our opinion on how to run the class, how to make it better, becuase we have been there before. She has also issued a challenge to all her alumni and teacher friends to keep track of how many books we have read this year, and I am now in my mid-twenties. Thanks to her, I've kept on reading and writing, all because we are friends on facebook.

I found this cool site online. It shows you what happened in histoy on any given day of the year. I think that this would interest students and you could make an assignment for each student to find out what had happened each day/week etc and then compare it to what is going on now.

What does it mean to be a successful science or math teacher? The definition of success is an elusive thing and measured in many ways. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines success as - resulting in or gaining a favorable outcome. This, without a doubt, is your and every other teacher's goal for their students.

Students make connections with many science concepts and communicate their recommendations to officials and organizations regarding the future of artificial reefs.

Great example of what I think is a student video project on the Giver. An example of how video projects can be used to show student understanding of a book's themes.

25 Collaborative learning strategies, teaching tips and techniques, and classroom management techniques are provided to assist teachers and students using Skype.

In project-based learning, preparation and planning are the most critical factors for success. The critical aspect of this formula for success is developing a clear understanding of what students are to achieve when they work on a project.

a good example of another kind of activity students could do--create timelines!

A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.

Projects in science are provided which take full advantage of Internet resources to help students develop a better understanding of the world in which they live.

Students learn how to conduct science investigations in the same manner as scientists, as they learn to analyze sets of online real time data to solve problems.

When word of a natural disaster is spreading from somewhere in the world or announced on the news, students can use Google Earth to conduct an investigation of the disaster's effect.

Wiki pages are always a work in progress. The wiki is like a dynamic online science classroom which continually grows and changes. Applications for the use of Wikis in science classrooms is only limited by the creativeness of the teacher in support science teaching and student earning.

What is Wallwisher and why use it? Its a Web 2.0 application which allows students to express their thoughts or share information on a science concept.

How many times have you prepared an updated or new dynamic math or science PowerPoint or Keynote presentation for class and it would not open in school? Also, how many times has it happened to your students when it's time to give a class presentation? Now you need to postpone their presentation to another day, disrupting even the best planning.

great video showing students learning many subjects and work skills through a technology-enhanced animation project.

new technology to monitor students' usage of mobile devices. Cool!

Web-based learning centers engage students by using interactive internet resources aligned with inquiry-based hands-on classroom activities to learn science concepts.

Guess how many social networks there are? (such as Facebook, MySpace, Goodreads, etc.). 350+ such technologies! This is an interesting list of as many of them as we know about, organized by subjects. There are some interesting student ones, geared more for university students.

This came from one of the blogs on my google reader. I love how this article takes a current event and compares it with a historical event in order to further discuss and clarify what is happening today. Sharing things like this with your students can help show why history is relevant.

I appreciate being introduced to the HNN website. They have a lot of cool stuff!