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Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web.

A free conference to learn online with other educators

Rather than stressing memorization and repetitive exercises, the Mathnasium Method of math instruction focuses on first helping children develop an intuitive idea of how numbers work and learning how to do math mentally. Included: Some examples of Mathnasium exercises.

Rather than stressing memorization and repetitive exercises, the Mathnasium Method of math instruction focuses on first helping children develop an intuitive idea of how numbers work and learning how to do math mentally. Included: Some examples of Mathnasium exercises. I feel this is an excellent validation for making the changes necessary in Math instruction. Interesting read...

Bullies to Buddies- An appoach for students to learn not to be victims. ITs an interveiw with the school psychologist about how this helps students deal with bullying

In this blog, I talk about educational technology, educational theory, educational pedagogy, and other topics related to these. I teach Physics and EMS classes, so some times I'll talk about those specific areas. I'll also discuss 21st Century Skills and Education. I explore free educational technology resources, ways to integrate technology into the classroom, professional development, project based learning, and tips and resources for new teachers.

LOTS of cool, innovative ideas!

Mentoring Minds is an educational publishing company that develops K-12 instructional materials to help students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. Experienced educators create the materials based on research and cover topics such as critical thinking, differentiated learning, instructional strategies, classroom management and more.

Good game for learning place value

Strategies to promote and enhance student learning

This site provided by the University of Nebraska at Omaha and several partner organizations promotes learning about the brain and nervous system for children.

Teachers often come from vastly different social and economic classes than their students, which can lead to culture clashes in the classroom. A book by Dr. Ruby K. Payne helps educators understand low-income students, and discusses ways to improve their learning. Included: Tips for making lessons relevant to students from all social classes.

Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning beyond the bell. Foster deeper engagement and opportunities for students to take charge of their own learning with high quality, engaging, relevant tools designed for today's busy teachers and parents.

Learning about habitats

ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

A fun website for elementary students---just click on your grade level to begin. I use the kindergarten level for my 4 & 5 year olds.

...more than JUST a song! This is a complete routine for the beginning of the day, especially for elementary students, but probably could apply to older kids as well. Love this idea!

Learn about the special benefits of this weekly school event, which features much more than music. We do this with our Lakota Flag song every Friday or any other day the kids want to sing. It opens a plethora of musical learning/comparing/contrasting.

TOEFL Network at British Columbia Institute of Technology. It's provide an online TOEFL e-learning website offering ibt TOEFL practices & teaching materials for students to prepare for TOEFL test.

Prepare for the TOEFL practice test with free sample questions. Take a free TOEFL practice test & learn about teaching materials for students to prepare for TOEFL test.

On this interactive Web site, kids can learn fun facts about different continents and the languages spoken there.

PeopleLink offers a unique solution for this vertical capable of delivering best in Class Video experience, flexible scalability, and a comprehensive set of data collaboration tools which make learning extremely effective & efficient.