Maine teacher, Richard Byrne , shares the availability of online mapping tools on his recent podcast, " Maps, Not Just for Social Stud...

There's a very thoughtful discussion going on at Will Richardson's Weblogg-ed about change . Check it out here . I especially app...

Kern Kelley fills us in on the possibilities of Google in education on Show 35 of the Bit by Bit podcast which is hosted by Alice Barr ,...

"If it could have been said in an email, why are you holding a meeting?" ~ Maine Teacher Out-of-Control Staff Meetings and B...

"I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences." ~ Gertrude Stein Diagramming Sentence...

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by Nicole Ouellette In reading some other blogs, I came across a life skills curriculum outlined at one of my favorite blogs Cheap Healthy G...

Richard Byrne outlines the benefits of blogging in the classroom on his podcast today at Free Technology for Teachers Podcast Link

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I spent yesterday afternoon at my brother Mike 's camp at Worthley Pond in Peru . It was a very relaxed afternoon of swimming, kite-fly...

The argument against Wikipedia by many is that it is simply not authoritative, that one just doesn't know how accurate it is, that the c...

"Imitation is the highest form of flattery." It is difficult to believe that YouTube started only about three years ago according ...

I've used Google Page Creator for about a year now, and despite a few minor bugs, I was very happy with it. It happens that it is bein...

"You catch more flies with honey than vinegar." Photo Credit In the foreward to his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death , Neil Post...

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There are two metaphors in currency out there relatively recently that I think we have to seriously consider: silos and echo chambers . A...

I spent an enjoyable morning at York Middle School yesterday, sharing and learning about the new Smartboards with version 10 software that ...

I certainly know the argument for waiting for children to have access to the digital world as stated in the Alliance for Children Report, ...

In an earlier post, I shared a Commoncraft video on Presidential Elections. Today I discovered a great compilation of links on elections t...

I've always been a fan of the MacGyver series and the Red Green Show . Although different in many regards, in each, solutions are crea...