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February 2006



Blue Web'n Hot Site of the Week: Practical Money Skills for Life

Monday, 27 February 2006 6:02 P GMT-08
PracticalMoneySkills.com is a free Web site designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money management for life. Resources for students with special needs are also available as well as curriculum ties to state standards. Click
Category: Professional Development Math The Arts Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

BLYTHE BENNETT'S RECOMMENDED SITE OF THE WEEK

Sunday, 26 February 2006 2:24 A GMT-08
Doodles, Drafts and Designs Profdev>High SchoolThis exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution has industrial drawings and patent illustrations of inventors, engineers and others who created something as small as a device to measure shoe size to the
Category: Teacher Resources Professional Development High School
Lynne Wolters

How to Survive a Tech Support Call

Sunday, 26 February 2006 2:19 A GMT-08
David Pogue of The New York Times authors columns, videos, books, and reviews of technology related matters. I receive his Circuits email dated February 23, 2006 and burst into a hearty belly laugh. It begins, "OK, we all know that the tech
Lynne Wolters

Google Introduces Web Page Creator

Sunday, 26 February 2006 1:56 A GMT-08
  Retrieved from SearchDay #1254, February 26, 2006By Chris Sherman Want to create your own web page, but don't know how to begin? The new Google Page Creator is a simple, free tool that allows you to publish to the web with ease. Google
Category: Teacher Resources Teachers & Tech Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

University of Michigan Offers Free Blogs to Students

Sunday, 26 February 2006 1:42 A GMT-08
The University of Michigan has it’s eye on the future – and the future’s past. By offering free blogs to students and staff, the university p
Category: Culture of Education Higher Education
Lynne Wolters

Technology and Television Show Used to Show Real World Applications for Mathematics

Sunday, 26 February 2006 1:35 A GMT-08
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) recently teamed up with executives at Texas Instruments (TI) and producers for the hit CBS television drama Numb3rs to launch a new classroom companion web site and curriculum based on topics discuss
Category: Teacher Resources Math Middle School High School Higher Education
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Teen arrested after MySpace.com posting

Sunday, 26 February 2006 1:25 A GMT-08
February 23, 2006, Retrieved February 26, 2006 from Boston.com News DENVER --A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday after postings on the popular Web site MySpace.com allegedly showed him holding handguns, authorities said. For the entire
Category: Teacher Resources Middle School High School
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Teachnology Download of the Week: Vocab Grapher

Sunday, 26 February 2006 12:35 A GMT-08
Vocab Grapher  "Vocab Grapher helps you learn new vocabulary by demonstrating word interrelations visually through graphs and engagingly through central ideas. Vocab Grapher?s visual means and central-idea approach to learn vocabulary are s
Category: Tech Tools Teacher Resources High School
Lynne Wolters

Teachnology Mac Download of the Week: Physics 101

Sunday, 26 February 2006 12:32 A GMT-08
Physics 101 "Demonstrated by Apple's own Phil Schiller this is the perfect solution for physics students and teachers everywhere, Physics 101 SE is the premier physics calculation tool, allowing you to focus on physics and not mathematical tediu
Category: Tech Tools Teachers & Tech Science Middle School High School
Lynne Wolters

Studies: Online time promotes children's social skills

Tuesday, 21 February 2006 1:32 P GMT-08
Studies: Online time promotes children's social skills  While many adults fear that kids who surf the Internet for hours risk becoming antisocial, two recent studies suggest instead that the online time helps them develop their interpersonal ski
Category: Research Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

Residential Summer Computer Camp for Students Ages 10-15

Tuesday, 21 February 2006 1:28 P GMT-08
Summertime Fun & Learning! OETC is proud to announce our first annual residential summer computer camp for students ages 10-15 to be held on the Linfield College campus in McMinnville, Oregon, this June and July. Let parents and students know abo
Category: Middle School High School Elementary
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Lynne Wolters

Microsoft Professional Development for Educators

Monday, 20 February 2006 2:44 A GMT-08
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Category: Teacher Resources Professional Development Teachers & Tech
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TILT Videocast: Teaching Area, Perimeter, and Scale Drawing with MS Word

Monday, 20 February 2006 2:42 A GMT-08
TILT Episode 8 - Teaching Area, Perimeter, and Scale Drawing with Microsoft Word Teachers Improving Learning With Technology is a video blog provided by Danny Maas. From the masthead on the TILT blog: "The vidcast that is created by teachers f
Category: Teacher Resources Professional Development Math Middle School High School
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Coaches Woo Students With Text Messages

Monday, 20 February 2006 2:25 A GMT-08
Technology changes the nature of college recruiting From eSchool News staff and wire service reports The pervasiveness of cell phones and text messaging is changing the way today's college coaches lure prized recruits. Observers say the trend, ha
Category: Culture of Education Teachers & Tech Health/PE High School Higher Education
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Teachnology PC Pick of the Week: AstroWorkBench

Monday, 20 February 2006 2:13 A GMT-08
"Some of the main features of this astronomy package: graphical planetary data and positional information. View all planetary positions at once and in an instant know what is visible. Jupiter data, orbital maps, and animation of main satellites.
Category: Tech Tools
Lynne Wolters

Olympics Teaching Resources

Wednesday, 15 February 2006 8:37 A GMT-08
The official site of the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics offers a collection of resources for schools that is broken down into education and kids sections. The education area offers a teaching kit with downloadable handbooks to use in the classroom. The
Category: Teacher Resources Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

Grant Opportunities

Wednesday, 15 February 2006 8:34 A GMT-08
US Bank Internet Scholarship Program  Deadline: Feb. 28, 2006 http://newsletters.101com.com/c.asp?id=601446&l=8&c=6cbf4ef66fe8a190 Science Fair Project Contest  Deadline: March 1, 2006 http://newsletters.101com.com/c.asp?id=60144
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Lynne Wolters

Recommended Podcast: The SG Show

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:32 P GMT-08
I have been listening to a lot of podcasts over the past six months. I listen to many educational and technology oriented podcasts. I also listen to political, news, interviews, and music podcasts. What are podcasts? Podcasts are like independent rad
Category: Teachers & Tech Early Childhood Middle School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

TEN COOL SITES

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:09 P GMT-08
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html Since 1995, the Exploratorium has encouraged our website visitors to submit suggestions for cool educational websites. Every two months, a new list of Ten Cool is created with all the old
Category: Teacher Resources Science The Arts Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:07 P GMT-08
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS: CLASSROOM TREASURES FROM THE K-12 INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA CENTERhttp://www.k12imc.org/pg114.cfmList and summary of outstanding online resources for special educators. Includes information for
Category: Teacher Resources Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: LIVE FROM TURKEY

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:04 P GMT-08
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/turkey2006.htmlOn March 29, 2006, a total solar eclipse will occur as the moon moves directly between the earth and the sun. The moon's shadow will fall on the earth, first darkening the eastern tip of Brazil, and
Category: Science Middle School High School Elementary
Lynne Wolters

Free Wiki Spaces for K-12 Teachers

Tuesday, 14 February 2006 9:46 P GMT-08
Retrived from the Edtech Listserv. February 14, 2006 From: Adam Frey <adam@tangient.com> My name is Adam Frey and I'm a co-founder of a San Francisco company called Tangient. We run www.wikispaces.com which offers hosted wikis to community gr
Category: Tech Tools Teacher Resources Teachers & Tech
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Lynne Wolters

The Digital Universe

Thursday, 9 February 2006 1:40 A GMT-08
As you might have guessed by its name, The Digital Universe is an ambitious project. It seeks to become the largest source of accurate information in history. The Digital Universe just launched recently, but developers have been working on it for ye
Category: Teacher Resources Science Health/PE Early Childhood Middle School High School Elementary Higher Education
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Grant Opportunities

Wednesday, 1 February 2006 1:52 P GMT-08
Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program  Deadline: Feb. 24, 2006 http://www.guardianlife.com/womens_channel/girls_going_places/girls_going_places.html US Bank Internet Scholarship Program  Deadline: Feb. 28, 2006 http://www.usb
Category: Grants
Lynne Wolters