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Exemplar allows you to see how a particular term or phrase is used in peer-reviewed, published literature.

SlideShare Presentation on what makes ppt presentations horrible.

SlideShare Presentation on what makes ppt presentations horrible.

Don't skip the intro, how-to and what can be found here. Really KOOL!

# What are Primary Sources # Finding Primary Sources on the Web # Evaluating Primary Source Web Sites # Citing Web Sites

A great reference for how to find primary sources on the web.

"...focuses on some of the lesser-used Google tools options like publishing an online quiz using Google Docs. In all there are 33 pages containing 21 ideas and how to instructions for creating Google Maps placemarks, directions creating and publishing a quiz with Google Docs forms, directions for embedding books into your blog, and visual aids for accessing other Google tools."

Portable applications in general are software and programs you can run independently from a removable drives (like flash/pen drive) without going through the hassle of installing them. They are widely used and have been a favorite approach for professionals of different various industries. With portable applications, you can leave your laptop behind; plug in the thumb drive in any client machine, run the application without worrying about leaving anything behind. In this post, we attempt to show a collection of useful and free applications you can run independently from thumb drives, sorting by profession by general. You'll be surprise how many applications you can actually run without installation.

The Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge is your chance to show off your smarts and demonstrate how science is at work in everyday life. Just create a short video and submit it online. You could win a bunch of great prizes, including $50,000 in U.S. Savings Bonds!

If the world were a village of 100 people, how would the composition be? This set of 20 posters is built on statistics about the spread of population around the world under various classifications. The numbers are turned into graphics to give another sense a touch - Look, this is the world we are living in.

a how-to text on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning. Think about holistic rubrics, too.

"The answer is choices! Just as it is vital that students are given choices about what they read in the classroom and at home, they need to be given choices on how they reflect their comprehension and learning. "

"Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques. "

Google DOC quizzes and grading how-to!

"A fun new educational and entertaining book EVERY day helps your child develop good reading habits. Each book teaches your child new concepts, new words and how to say them."

Math Apprentice answers the question that nearly every student will ask during his or her math career: When are we ever going to use this stuff in the real world? Sure, there are some obvious real world connections. Money, time, and measurement are all very relevant concepts. Other areas of math, such as number theory and functions, are more cryptic and can seem disconnected from real life. Math Apprentice reveals the connections by showing students how math is used in a variety of interesting professions.

This is a view of the solar-system which shows it as we understand it to be. The Sun is in the centre, and the planets orbit at varying speeds. Notice how the outer planets move much more slowly than the inner ones.

"You now can access lots of free audio and video from the Library of Congress on iTunes U. There's a lot of great material suitable for a history class, such as early films made by Edison himself (or his company, at least). There are also fascinating oral histories from actual slaves in the Voices from the Days of Slavery collection. For a look at how people entertained themselves before TV, radio and the interweb came to be, you can look at early American animation, and even olde timey Vaudeville performances."

"How can you increase your chances of improving student acceptance of and contribution to a class/group/project wiki? Here are 10 suggestions:"