I found an incredible site (from the UK) this morning, while googleing for "SmartBoard" and "Geography".

Welcome to Oxfam- Mapping our World .
Mapping our World is a whiteboard teaching product for 8 to 14 year olds.
It explores the relationship between maps and globes, and how different projections influence our perception of the world. It challenges the [...]

It has been a week? Today is Day 7 and we are to summarize what we have learned about commenting.
We’re on Day 7 of the comment challenge and it’s time to take a little break to see what you’ve learned. So far you’ve audited your own commenting behavior, commented on a new blog, installed a [...]

Right after I published the "Tidbits of Information " post, I receive a Twitter from ehelfant

So, I checked into creating a group twitter account. I guess there are several sites out there. I chose GroupTweet , since Liz Davis recently created a group called Edutweets .
Set up was pretty simple. I created a new Twitter [...]

I must say that I am enjoying updating my own and looking at other bloggers’ “What am I reading” widgets. The issue I am facing is deciding which tool to use? There is no reason in maintaining your book shelf on more than one site. This blog post is about helping me decide which of [...]

Vicki Davis has written many times of her
desire to foster, mentor and encourage new bloggers
I want to jump on her band wagon and do the same for newcomers as well.
If your blog readers are growing, who are you mentoring and bringing out to share with others?
Last month Tracy McGrath from Mrs. McGrath Cyber Cafe [...]

The blogospehere is buzzing with posts about the need to expose and create for ourselves AND students a global network. I am no exception. I am actively looking to connect with colleagues around the world to exchange and learn from their ideas, projects and philosophies. With Twitter, Skype, online conferences and through our blogs, we [...]

I was standing at the door of a session from Discovery, when I overheard the following:
The presenter had a slide of four different images on the screen. One of a painting, another one of a mathematical equation, one photograph of a famous person and the last one being a chemistry formula.
He asked the audience [...]

As of this afternoon we are 127 members strong @teachablemoment. Everyone is trying to figure out how to use, make time for @teachablemoment and how to access from school, since Twitter is blocked in some school districts.
We had the first shoutout from @reuw from Israel. Unfortunately there were few responses at the time that he [...]

It has been some amazing 2 days. On Saturday evening, I created the @teachablemoment twitter account. I let my network know about it through a blog post and through Twitter.

Then the followers started rolling in…

Then coolcatteacher announced it through a twitter…

That put us to almost 100. This morning� the 100th member to @teachablemomentstarted following.

Not that [...]

Following an idea that sprung out at me while I was writing my previous post, I have decided to create a Teachable Moment Shoutout account on Twitter.
The idea is as follows:
We are all looking to inspire and create teachable moments for our students. Many times these are impromptus, non-planned discussions and activities. Sometimes they pass [...]