TIE Online Class: Web Lit for Educators

With a nod to the ever-brilliant-and-willing-to-share Kim Cofino, here is the rubric I've lately begun to use in my classroom for grading student blog posts.

This is an experiment in action and depending on how this tool works, it is very likely that it will come under some revision. If anyone ha

This ariticle states that setting up rules for computer usage ahead of time helps to eliminate problems later. A lot of good suggestions that should start at a young age and continue to reinforce throughtout their schooling.

This is a great article of how schools are starting book clubs. They have a small group of teachers read a professional books and then have discussions about them. They also try new strategies in their classrooms and then discuss them with the rest of the members.

This is an article about how to use Moodle in your school. This two part article shares 1) district use tips and 2) practical tips for enhancing Moodle for K-12 district use. Sounds very interesting if you can get everyone to use it.

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School related cartoons to make you laugh!

This school has a zero tolerance policy on public displays of affection, and friend to friend hugging warrants an in-school suspension. In this case, I would say the inflexibility of this school policy has the potential to hurt kids. If a boy gets in trouble for hugging a friend at school, what message does that send?

Great vocab lists for MS and HS students.

good page for counselors.

This book is almost 20 years old, but I bet the stories are still relevant to what kids experience today.

Some info could be helpful with 9th graders.

Social Skills - Would Be great for Writing Social Stories with my student

Looks like a great resource for teens.

Gifted ed is not a well-funded program in our district, so I found this for tips and insight...both educationally and as a referral source for parents/parenting.

Site to get writing help.

A StoryBird is a short, art-inspired story that students can use to frame out a story of their own.

Covers lesson plans, tech tips, great websites to integrate technology into your curriculum, current trends in tech ed and technology standards.

Every year, I have 4th grade students compare handwriting speed to keyboarding speed. We run it like an experiment. we discuss the evidence-pros and cons we develop a hypothesis we test the hypothesis (with a series of four tests) we revise if necessary I wanted to test some of the reasons students come up with ...

Teacher worksheets, lesson plans, activities, jobs for Speech/Language Pathologist

This site has some really fun ideas for science. Most of them are elementary or Middle School but you can always modify things and make them appropriate for High School

This teacher has some interesting thoughts about our ethics in teaching science. How we can make things more interesting and not concentrate so much on pencil, paper and grades

This site is about setting and achieveing goals. These articles are about goals successfully achieved and how they reached them.

Wow, lots of fun stuff. Also ways to acquire ideas for the classroom. Prices are not too bad.