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Just the Facts | Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech
Our research, actually looking at what puts kids at risk for receiving the most serious kinds of sexual solicitation online, suggests that it’s not giving out personal information that puts kid at risk. It’s not having a blog or a personal website that does that either. [...]

Amazon.com: Langwitches Blog: Kindle Store: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Langwitches Blog (Kindle Edition)
The Magic of Learning
(tags: kindle langwitches)

The Way We Live Now – Going Offline in Search of Freedom – NYTimes.com
Not long ago, I started an experiment in self-binding: intentionally creating an obstacle to behavior I was helpless to control, much the way Ulysses lashed himself to his ship’s mast to avoid succumbing to the Sirens’ song. In my case, though, the [...]

Shareflow: Focused conversations with people that matter | Zenbe
Create focused conversations with the people that matter.
(tags: collaboration productivity communication)

Part One: Teacher Tips for Blogging Projects
Blogs offer teachers and students a natural bridge between work that they are already doing (producing written reports and reflections on classroom content has been a part of classroom experiences since Socrates was stumbling around the agora with groups of learners) and work that they’d like to be doing: [...]

A Maths Dictionary for Kids
ANIMATED – definitions, examples, activities, practice, calculators – INTERACTIVE
(tags: dictionary interactive smartboard math)

Bloom’s Taxonomy Poster for Elementary Teachers
The Blooming Butterfly poster was designed by the Learning Today product development team as a tribute to Bloom and Anderson and to the educators all over the world that continue to implement their vision. [...]

I had the pleasure of observing a wonderful first grade teacher today, Mrs. L. She is seamlessly integrating authentic data, math and her SmartBoard into daily lessons as well as making and connecting year long concepts.
Students at our school are encouraged to bring non perishable food items on Fridays for donation to the local food [...]

ARKive Education – Games
Tripwire of Terror
Animal Survival
Design a Habitat
Copse and Robbers
Magnetic Fridge Poetry
Grow Up
Egg and Spawn Race
(tags: games interactive animals science)

Interesting Ways…
They have been a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been great fun connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea. It is [...]

SlickPlan – Free Flowcharts | Free Sitemap | Flowchart Design | Sitemap Design | Flowchart Design | Creating Flowcharts
SlickPlan is a web-based sitemap/flowchart generator that allows for the creation of free sitemap and flowchart design.
(tags: generator mindmap flowchart sitemap)

Faces in Places
A photographic collection of faces found in everyday places.
(tags: photography)

Online Safety: An essential 21st century [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about my  Thoughts on Setting up a Student Created Wiki.
I chose to use wikispaces education wiki as the platform of the Math wiki. The set up of student accounts was very easy and fast, no email was required for the students.

I also pre-created a page for [...]