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Developed in collaboration between Maryland Public Television, MIT's Education Arcade, and FableVision. When you need a fresh approach to teach math to today-s tech-savvy youth, Lure of the Labyrinth comes to the rescue. A ground-breaking online learning game blends cutting-edge design, graphic novel storytelling and stimulating game play to plunge middle school students into a captivating 21st century learning adventure. Labyrinth's mysterious world unfolds when students encounter animated monsters and challenging math puzzles that deepen students' understanding of critical pre-algebra skills. Math topics: ratios, proportions, fractions, variables, number and operations

This site has a variety of icebreaker activities for free. There are also some additional activities that can be purchased, but there are a number of them free.

Nice site for those who run student groups or professional development programs

This is a wikispace tool kit covering a number of tools. Glogster is a really cool tool for teacher and for students to create and organize information. Here is a wikispace with a page all about glogster. This wikispace also covers blogs, copyright & Fair Use, filmmaking, google docs, podcasts, voicethread and wikis

Welcome to the Coudal Partners Museum of Online Museums. Here, you will find links from our archives to online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions: Start with a review of classic art and architecture, and graduate to the study of mundane (and sometimes bizarre) objects elevated to art by their numbers, juxtaposition, or passion of the collector. The MoOM is organized into three sections.

"In a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st century. Whether you are a technological determinist or instrumentalist, technology has become an essential force shaping much of our teaching and pedagogical practices. It has also placed a number of demands and exigencies on us and to meet these exigencies we need to develop a set of key digital skills. In the chart below, we cited 9 digital skills that we believe are fundamentally important for any teacher. This chart is based on a previous work we published here in the past."

Teacher training videos

This site has tons of great tools to share with you. Each is presented through a quick screencast. Definitely one you will want to bookmark.

Here are a number of sites in one location. Not sure if this came through the first time so I am sending it again.

Kapili.com! Official site of the Kapili Islands and their free sites. This is a jump off point for the Rader pages devoted to sciences and math. Biology4Kids Chem4Kids Cosmos4Kids Physics4Kids NumberNut.com Geography4Kids Mostly informational and two-dimensional

Six step process in the instruction of vocabulary (building academic vocabulary).

This site is broken down by grade level (right side) and there are a number of games lists (left side).