Design Squad – Engage Kids in Hands-on Engineering Projects
By Editor's Pick May 17, 2013 9:09 pm
Design Squad… from PBS Kids features a great collection of hands-on activities for elementary and middle school students. The activities are designed to help students explore engineering concepts. The collection of activities is divided into ten categories. The categories are
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Bills Seek to Address Student-Loan Interest-Rate Hike
By EdVoices May 9, 2013 7:15 pm
Student loan interest rates are slated to jump from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent this summer, unless Congress and the administration do something to stop it. And there are a whole bunch of proposals out there to head off the …
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Memofon – Create Mind Maps from Outlines
By Editor's Pick May 9, 2013 10:52 am
Memofon is a new mind mapping tool that makes it possible to create mind maps from typed outlines. Memofon uses the same concept as Text 2 Mind Map… which I really like. To create a mind map with Memofon you
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9 Fine Reasons to Keep a Journal (and how to help kids do it too)
By EdVoices April 23, 2013 6:57 am
A Gratitude Journal
can improve your well being
more than winning a million
dollars in the lottery.
Why not start one today?
(Photo credit: limevelyn…)
Journaling is on my habit list every day. I keep 2 kinds of journals
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Craft a Short Audio Story on The Art of Storytelling
By Editor's Pick April 17, 2013 12:01 pm
The Art of Storytelling… is a website hosted by the Delaware Museum of Art. On the site students can learn about works of art. The better part of the site are the tools for creating short audio stories by using
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Something we need to realize about health insurance
By EdVoices March 10, 2013 6:54 pm
has become very apparent to me as the statements and bills from the illness and treatment of my wife have begun to arrive at our house.
I could show this clearly from many of them, but since it was 6 …
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Join This Hangout to Learn More About PBL
By Editor's Pick February 26, 2013 12:14 pm
I’ve just learned from Steve Dembo that on March 14th Discovery Education’s Wilkes University Instructional Media Program is hosting a Google+ Hangout to talk about PBL. The Hangout’s featured guests include Kathy Schrock, Ginger Lewman, and Cynthia Treichler…
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CK-12′s “Get Real” Contest Gives Students a Chance to Win iPads and More for Their Classrooms
By Editor's Pick February 25, 2013 9:35 am
Last week I received an email from CK-12 that announced their new Get Real competition…. The Get Real contest asks students to create presentations (videos, PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi are all acceptable) that demonstrates how a STEM concept included
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Pay it forward
By EdVoices February 17, 2013 7:58 am
I am a big believer in “paying it forward”. I know, from personal experience, that helping someone out or doing something nice for someone makes the world a better place. When that person you support helps someone else, and on …
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A Map of the Cables Connecting the World
By Editor's Pick February 12, 2013 7:45 am
TeleGeography has produced a couple of interesting maps of the telecommunication cables that cross under oceans and seas. The interactive Submarine Cable map… allows you to click on various points and lines to see the locations that they connect. The
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