by Sharon Betts " BRAIDS AROUND THE GLOBE " Collaboration for the 9-14 year olds can be difficult to find. Last year, I mentored a...

by Dave Burke Greetings. A disclaimer before I start. This is Jim's brother Dave. While I have a great deal of interest in education,...

Guest Column Courtesy of Jason Ohler : What Happens When the Read-Write Web Begins to Think? By Jason Ohler © 2008 From Info Tease to Info ...

Bob Sprankle has an update on Internet Safety for the 08-09 school year on Bit by Bit .

I have always been uncomfortable using the phone. Just ask people who know me well. It is definitely not my strength in communicating. I m...

AquaMind 's Scott Love, developer of Noteshare and a regular visitor to Maine, has pointed me in the direction of the work of Elizabeth...

by Ed Latham I was talking to some students last week during some of the "down time" that often pops up towards the end of many cl...

We're looking for Maine Classroom Blogs, Wikis, Sites, etc. to showcase. Any to recommend? It is time to widen the network. Any leads ...

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

Direct Link to WDL Podcast WDL Blog Questioning Essential Questions Questioning Workshop Earlier Post: Essential Questions and Other Questi...

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 ...