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Step up to the stage and have fun with music, art, math, reading, puzzles and an adventure playset. We want you to get our creative brain cells working overtime as you explore and discover the wonderful adventure called toy theater!

Video Production is more than a new toy for students. It helps students create work in a new and exciting way. This is a place for serious fun. Kids'Vid is an instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project-based learning.

Over the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies. What little PD we have seen was devoted mainly to the learning of software and how to operate the latest toys. We have too often placed carts before horses. Managing learning in the laptop classroom requires considerable savvy. This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning.

WordSift is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and play with language.

This is a wee test search for creative commons flick photos, click on the thumbnail to see a small image and get the code to embed the photo with attribution on your blog. When you see the code you can toggle left/ right alignment and small/medium size. If you are allowed to you can edit a large size in picnik, you will need to handle the attribution for this yourself.

Helping you do cool stuff with your digital photos since 2005. :-) Have fun with your photos!

Add up the numbers on the left side of the scale and add a number on the right side of the scale to balance it. Can you get to 15 numbers on each side of the scale to complete the game?