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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: normal;"&gt;Described as "The Preeminent Internet Publisher of literature, reference and verse, providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://bartleby.com/"&gt;Bartleby.com&lt;/a&gt; is a website to visit.&amp;nbsp; Also included are anthologies of poetry, fiction and non-fiction orations, essays, journals and so much more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/" target="_blank"&gt;Digital Dutch&lt;/a&gt; is the the online Unit converter to help you convert almost anything to almost anything else.&amp;nbsp; Great resource for homeschool moms!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wordsmyth.net/" target="_blank"&gt;Wordsmyth Children's Dictionary&lt;/a&gt; offers a simplified dictionary explanation for younger students, along with standard dictionary interpretations for older learners.&amp;nbsp; Need a thesaurus? Each definition includes a handy synonym list!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="marked"&gt;thousands of new example sentences&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://quoteland.com/"&gt;Quoteland.com&lt;/a&gt; is one of the best online resources for finding and researching quotes.&amp;nbsp; Explore the multi-media reference library and discussion groups too!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Take your students on a virtual field trip through the fifty U.S. states with &lt;a href="http://www.awesomeamerica.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Awesome America&lt;/a&gt;, featuring:&amp;nbsp; Amazing photographs and links to additional state resources (state symbols, facts, trivia, state parks etc). A great way to take a virtual field trip through the fifty states.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://earthcam.com/"&gt;Earthcam.com&lt;/a&gt; links to live video cameras throughout the world.&amp;nbsp; Your kids can explore exotic sites around the world (as well as within the US) from your computer.&amp;nbsp; My kids enjoyed viewing&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/?cam=panasonicts#" target="_blank"&gt;Times Square&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; and the&lt;a href="http://www.earthcam.com/usa/colorado/longmont/" target="_blank"&gt; Osprey web cam&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; This site does require supervision as some of the cameras are located in areas you&amp;nbsp; may not wish them to see.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;My favorite resource is &lt;a href="http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/" target="_blank"&gt;World Heritage Tour&lt;/a&gt; that allows you to explore three-dimensional views of 277 famous destinations around the world.&amp;nbsp; Just use your mouse to "step inside the picture" and enjoy 365 degree views of the destinations you select.&amp;nbsp; Our family especially enjoyed viewing the pictures from Israel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/" target="_blank"&gt;National Geographic&lt;/a&gt; is a wonderful resource for parents and educators.&amp;nbsp; Their website is both educational and inspiring, not-to-mention full of activities, videos, photographs, lesson plan ideas, and more.&amp;nbsp; Don't miss the new &lt;a href="http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/st/?ar_a=4" target="_blank"&gt;National Geographic Education&lt;/a&gt; website for parents, teachers and students (in beta). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.progressivephonics.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Progressive Phonics&lt;/a&gt; is a FREE all-in-one reading program.&amp;nbsp; Registration is required. Users download the books (which can be printed or just read online) and worksheets for each lesson. There is also a discussion forum.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.starfall.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Starfall&lt;/a&gt; is a popular online favorite geared towards preschool- 2nd grade level students.&amp;nbsp; The site uses a systematic phonics approach to learning and is also a popular educational alternative to online video games. The majority of the site is FREE however an expanded members only area is also available which also offers math lessons/games.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yourchildlearns.com/lettersounds.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Owl and Mouse Lettersounds&lt;/a&gt; is free educational software you can download to help your child make the connection between letters and the sound they make.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freereading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page" target="_blank"&gt;Free Reading&lt;/a&gt; is a open source reading intervention program for students preschool-6th grade.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; The FREE program covers 40 weeks of instruction (30 min day/5 days a week)On the site you can download resources including &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freereading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;" target="_blank"&gt;index picture cards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;and use a wordlist generator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;If you would like to know what grade level your child is reading at you can &lt;a href="http://www.nrrf.org/readtest_background.html" target="_blank"&gt;download the FREE Reading Competency Test&lt;/a&gt; from the National Right to Read Foundation.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The 10 Days Series is organized by &lt;a href="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/10-days-of-series"&gt;iHomeschool Network&lt;/a&gt;,   a collaboration of outstanding homeschool bloggers who connect with   each other and with family-friendly companies in mutually beneficial   projects. Visit us on &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/IHomeschool-Network/195201547191169"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/ihomeschoolnet/"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/ihomeschoolnet"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; And of course, click the image below to visit all the 10 Days posts from these homeschool moms of the iHomeschool Network.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="1" src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=F2YqO89GLLc&amp;amp;bids=241992.23&amp;amp;type=4&amp;amp;subid=0" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-5429069335023541865?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/MgnxXDPkcLU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/MgnxXDPkcLU/4-free-online-reading-resources.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--JgSuPaFmIc/T4vMZtnFlbI/AAAAAAAADv8/pYSGRL6vAhc/s72-c/10-days-april-karin-2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/04/4-free-online-reading-resources.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-9180506680261564893</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-18T09:18:38.505-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><title>How to organize your online resources</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;One of the biggest challenges with using online resources is remembering all the great resources you've found.&amp;nbsp; You cannot use it, if you don't remember it, right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Here are some online tools you can use to keep track of the great finds you discover on your own, and hopefully during this series.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.evernote.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Evernote&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Evernote is my favorite choice for saving great resources. &lt;/span&gt;With Evernote, all of your notes, web clips, files and images are made available on every device and computer you use. Plus, you can SHARE them with friends! There is so much that Evernote can do that there is even an &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Evernote-For-Dummies-David-Sarna/dp/1118107381/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1334708141&amp;amp;sr=1-2" target="_blank"&gt;Evernote for Dummies&lt;/a&gt; book or you can read &lt;a href="http://michaelhyatt.com/how-to-organize-evernote-for-maximum-efficiency.html" target="_blank"&gt;How to Organize Evernote for maximum efficiency &lt;/a&gt;by Michael Hyatt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://getpocket.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;GetPocket.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Formerly Read it later&lt;b&gt;, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;you can save articles, videos, or pretty much anything into your pocket.&amp;nbsp; Items can be saved to your pocket from your browser, via email or over 300 apps (twitter, flipboard, pulse, zite etc)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Once it's in your pocket you can view it from your computer, phone, Kindle or tablet---no internet connection needed!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://instapaper.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Instapaper.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Instapaper is an incredibly simple tool for saving web pages to read later. Like Get Pocket (but easier to use) you can also access to read later from your computer, Kindle, iPhone, and iPad.&amp;nbsp; Items can also be categorized in folders. From the website you may also choose to download in paper format and print if you prefer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pinterest.com/karinkath" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: normal;"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Use Pinterest to keep track of your favorite finds by creating a board ("Online Resources") or multiple boards (divided by categories). Pinterest is easy to set up and allows you to share your resource finds with others. The downside is that you will have to click a few times to get back to your resource, and if it was an article that was removed you won't be able to access it again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paper / Index Files&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;If you are new to using Online Tools and the idea of another Online tool to manage your 'online tools' seems overwhelming at the moment, you can also keep track of your favorite resources the old fashioned way---with pen and paper.&amp;nbsp; Just use a simple spiral binder or a card catalog with resources divided by subject or category.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The 10 Days Series is organized by &lt;a href="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/10-days-of-series"&gt;iHomeschool Network&lt;/a&gt;, a collaboration of outstanding homeschool bloggers who connect with each other and with family-friendly companies in mutually beneficial projects. Visit us on &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/IHomeschool-Network/195201547191169"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/ihomeschoolnet/"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/ihomeschoolnet"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; And of course, click the image below to visit all the 10 Days posts from these homeschool moms of the iHomeschool Network.&lt;br /&gt;
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You'll be blessed with tips on how to handle bad days, cultivating curiosity, teaching with Legos, and much much more!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-9180506680261564893?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/OfPuEZKULOk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/OfPuEZKULOk/how-to-organize-your-online-resources.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--JgSuPaFmIc/T4vMZtnFlbI/AAAAAAAADv8/pYSGRL6vAhc/s72-c/10-days-april-karin-2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/04/how-to-organize-your-online-resources.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-179502538789207780</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-04-16T04:16:16.414-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Teaching tools</category><title>10 days of Online Teaching Tools: An introduction</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--JgSuPaFmIc/T4vMZtnFlbI/AAAAAAAADv8/pYSGRL6vAhc/s1600/10-days-april-karin-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--JgSuPaFmIc/T4vMZtnFlbI/AAAAAAAADv8/pYSGRL6vAhc/s1600/10-days-april-karin-2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Over the next 10 days (excluding weekends) 28 bloggers will join together to create almost 300 posts on various topics meant to encourage, educate and inspire you with&amp;nbsp; your children, within your home, in your homeschool, cooking etc!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;Please join me April 16-20 and April 23-27th for a series on Online Teaching Tools.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Whether you are feeling stumped for ideas or overwhelmed by the online possibilities I have solutions, tips and resources get you inspired or back on track.&amp;nbsp; This series is for parents, home educators, tutors and traditional classroom teachers who want to explore some of the best and effective online teaching tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The 10 Days Series is organized by &lt;a href="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/10-days-of-series"&gt;iHomeschool Network&lt;/a&gt;, a collaboration of outstanding homeschool bloggers who connect with each other and with family-friendly companies in mutually beneficial projects. Visit us on &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/IHomeschool-Network/195201547191169"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://pinterest.com/ihomeschoolnet/"&gt;Pinterest&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/ihomeschoolnet"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.  And of course, click the image below to visit all the 10 Days posts from these homeschool moms of the iHomeschool Network.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;You'll be blessed with tips on how to handle bad days, cultivating curiosity, teaching with Legos, and much much more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/10-days-of-series"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-353" src="http://www.ihomeschoolnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/members-6401.jpg" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Did you know that you can hide your Tweets from followers during Twitter Parties?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here's how you do it:&lt;/b&gt;  Start any tweet that you want to hide from your stream with @HideChat or @HideTweet and then write your tweet along with the #hashtag you are using. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Please note: Do not follow @hidechat or @hidetweet as this is only a twitter command that allows you to hide your tweet from your stream.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;You shouldn't feel the need to hide ALL of your Tweets from live events or Twitter parties. But you can use this Twitter command to help tone down your stream----particularly if you are very active during a Twitter Party.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-2562529478051322516?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/_wtXmGYAyTE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/_wtXmGYAyTE/how-to-hide-your-tweets-from-followers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/th_sig2.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/03/how-to-hide-your-tweets-from-followers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-8084027850275184455</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-16T17:26:38.398-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><title>How to use Hashtags on Twitter</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Unless you are new to &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/karinkath" target="_blank"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, you've probably seen your fair share of&amp;nbsp; hashtags, even if you weren't entirely sure what they were for.&amp;nbsp; If this is you, don't worry, you aren't alone.&amp;nbsp; Many Twitter users use hashtags in non-traditional ( ineffective) &lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;ways&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;But...What is a Hashtag?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Simply  put, the # symbol, commonly referred to a hashtag, is used to mark a  keyword or topic within a tweet.&amp;nbsp; Twitter users can then follow these  hashtag discussions (also&amp;nbsp; twitter parties or chats)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;if they choose.&amp;nbsp; It also marks the tweet when someone is doing a search on Twitter for a particular keyword. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;2 Common misuses of Hashtags on Twitter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;One of the most common ways is as a sign of humor:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;While funny, this can be confusing for some and it also down plays the key purpose of using a #hashtag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Another popular misuse of a Twitter #Hashtag is to simply make one up.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; While clever, if you are the only one using a particular hashtag this is also ineffective, because no one else will see it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Why you should use Twitter Hashtags&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Using a Twitter #Hashtag within your tweets broadcasts your tweets to a wider audience, outside of your existing followers&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; This essentially lets other Twitter Users, with shared interests, know that you're out there and makes it easier for them to join in.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Most importantly though, it allows you to participate in discussions on a larger scale, outside of your existing network and this allows you to network more effectively.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;By knowing how to use popular&amp;nbsp; hashtags in your own tweets and searches you will be able to: share content, learn about new resources and keep up-to-date on real issues/challenges affecting the education community.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here are &lt;a href="http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/03/23-best-education-hashtags-to-use-on.html" target="_blank"&gt;23 Best Education Hashtags &lt;/a&gt;to use on Twitter, why not start using them today?&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-8084027850275184455?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/7GSDgjAvYe0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/7GSDgjAvYe0/how-to-use-hashtags-on-twitter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bA8_uOcHb4A/T1ksILBcP5I/AAAAAAAADj0/SCahJcRr_qY/s72-c/twitter.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/03/how-to-use-hashtags-on-twitter.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-6488881698890516156</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-13T13:00:00.576-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Science</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">math</category><title>The Learning Power of Lego</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/01/30/the-learning-power-of-lego/"&gt;&lt;img alt="The Learning Power of LEGO" border="0" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/Lego-Education.png" width="500" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Via: &lt;a href="http://www.onlinecollege.org/"&gt;Online College Advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Do you use Lego Educational products in your classroom or homeschool?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-6488881698890516156?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/Je4dUQRkcMg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/Je4dUQRkcMg/learning-power-of-lego.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/th_sig2.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/03/learning-power-of-lego.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-8088277835092344638</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-16T19:30:28.576-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Teaching</category><title>23 Best Education Hashtags to use on Twitter</title><description>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Hashtags can be an effective Twitter technique used within your own tweets, or when searching for topics of interest to you.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately, many users don't understand the purpose of hashtags, which makes them use them in ineffective ways.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eFrklcZ832E/T1qnw-SfjvI/AAAAAAAADj8/Ko8BzqeT9OM/s1600/Twitter-27.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="192" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eFrklcZ832E/T1qnw-SfjvI/AAAAAAAADj8/Ko8BzqeT9OM/s320/Twitter-27.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2 Ways to use Hashtags effectively&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;1. Use popular hashtags at the end of your own tweets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;2. Search popular hashtags for your favorite topics or niche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Education is a popular topic on Twitter.&amp;nbsp; Some hashtags are very general and cover a broad scope, while others are very niche specific.&amp;nbsp; We've pulled together a list of what we think are the best educational hashtags in use right now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;23 Educational Hashtags you can use today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23blackedu" target="_blank"&gt;#BlackEdu&lt;/a&gt; Minority education discussions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23edchat" target="_blank"&gt;#Edchat&lt;/a&gt;- General Education, worldwide users &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23edtech" target="_blank"&gt;#Edtech&lt;/a&gt; -Education Technology- tweets about using technology in education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23edparents" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;#EdParents -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;For parents wishing to discuss education, traffic is erratic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23edapp" target="_blank"&gt;#EdApp&lt;/a&gt; - Education Apps-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23elearning" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;#eLearning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;- eLearning topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23gtchat" target="_blank"&gt;#gtchat&lt;/a&gt; - for gifted learning &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23geographyteacher" target="_blank"&gt;#GeographyTeacher &lt;/a&gt;resources/topics for Geography teachers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/realtime/%23homeschool" target="_blank"&gt;#homeschool&lt;/a&gt; - home educators (most popular, least characters)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23homeschooling" target="_blank"&gt;#homeschooling&lt;/a&gt;- another hashtag for homeschool topics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23hsbloggers" target="_blank"&gt;#hsbloggers&lt;/a&gt; - homeschool bloggers&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_105209625"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23historyteacher" target="_blank"&gt;#HistoryTeacher&lt;/a&gt; - for history teachers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23kedu" target="_blank"&gt;#Kedu&lt;/a&gt; - Kindergarten education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23kinderchat" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;#Kinderchat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23langchat" target="_blank"&gt;#Langchat&lt;/a&gt; - language chat (foreign)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/realtime/%23lrnchat" target="_blank"&gt;#lrnchat&lt;/a&gt; -&amp;nbsp; Learning chat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23mathchat" target="_blank"&gt;#Mathchat&lt;/a&gt;- for mathematics teachers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/realtime/%23ntchat" target="_blank"&gt;#ntchat&lt;/a&gt; - for new teachers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23reading" target="_blank"&gt;#reading&lt;/a&gt; very broad resource for topics related to reading mix of educators &amp;amp; book lovers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23smartboards" target="_blank"&gt;#smartboards&lt;/a&gt; smartboard discussions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23sschat" target="_blank"&gt;#sschat&lt;/a&gt; - Social Studies Chat &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23tlchat" target="_blank"&gt;#tlchat&lt;/a&gt; - teacher librarians- wonderful ideas for read alouds books for students&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23preschool" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;#preschool -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;all things preschool&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Now that you know the popular education hashtags, you can start tagging your own relevant tweets and participate in Twitter parties and group discussions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;If you participate in Twitter parties often you may also want to consider &lt;a href="http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/03/how-to-hide-your-tweets-from-followers.html" target="_blank"&gt;hiding some of your tweets from your followers during twitter parties&lt;/a&gt;. Of course your tweets will still remain visible to those following the hashtag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/"&gt;Sign-Up Genius&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; may be a co-op leader or Teacher's new best online friend.&amp;nbsp; This FREE online resource allows you to create custom PUBLIC or PRIVATE sign-up forms for a variety of uses using simple wizards.&amp;nbsp; You can also preset reminders and monitor the sign-up progress online.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Planning a field trip?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Students and Chaperones can sign up on one form.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hosting a holiday party or gift exchange?&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;You can create a customized form to track guests, food or gift exchanges&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Other ideas for using Sign Up Genius include:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Group/Club Volunteer duty sign up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Holiday parties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:normal;"&gt;Class Registration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Group Registration &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Field Trips&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Gift Exchange&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Used Curriculum Sale sign up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Special event/Meeting Sign up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Snack Mom Sign Up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Park Day Sign Up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Meeting Sign-up (you can set up recurring events)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-368402644782076287?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/Y-R4x-5k5Ko" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/Y-R4x-5k5Ko/sign-up-genius.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TNh-wtnDVXI/AAAAAAAADLo/yxGuilr9Hxs/s72-c/signup.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2010/11/sign-up-genius.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-6676622426105614014</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-07T21:31:31.445-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Events</category><title>Celebrate Teen Tech Week March 4-10, 2012</title><description>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Sponsored by the &lt;a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/" target="_blank"&gt;Young Adult Library Services Association&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/" target="_blank"&gt;YALSA&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="http://teentechweek.ning.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Teen Tech Week&lt;/a&gt; is a celebration geared towards educating techie teens about the different technologies offered by their local libraries.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rgM7qwTb-20/T1gZrnpmyYI/AAAAAAAADjc/TavyRHeMJfE/s1600/teentechweek.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="82" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rgM7qwTb-20/T1gZrnpmyYI/AAAAAAAADjc/TavyRHeMJfE/s400/teentechweek.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;This year's theme encourages local libraries to GEEK OUT out their library and really showcase their technology including: services such as online  homework help and digital literacy-focused programs to resources like  e-books, music, audiobooks, movies, databases and more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;If your local library isn't participating in Teen Tech Week, there are a variety of resources that you can share with your own teens showcasing technology that you can use in: your home, school, or local library.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://teentechweek.ning.com/page/free-web-tools" target="_blank"&gt;Free Web Tools page&lt;/a&gt; for ideas and links.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-6676622426105614014?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/tyhoz8WG_mk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/tyhoz8WG_mk/celebrate-teen-tech-week-march-4-10.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rgM7qwTb-20/T1gZrnpmyYI/AAAAAAAADjc/TavyRHeMJfE/s72-c/teentechweek.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/03/celebrate-teen-tech-week-march-4-10.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-880445897675368691</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-07T13:27:23.733-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">resources</category><title>How to use and find  Free File Folder Game Activities</title><description>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/Saqm6998SaI/AAAAAAAABUM/aUcZnPL6m74/s1600-h/FFFHead.gif"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308238642806540706" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/Saqm6998SaI/AAAAAAAABUM/aUcZnPL6m74/s320/FFFHead.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 98px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Have you discovered the joys of File Folder Learning Activities with your children? File Folder games are a favorite center in our homeschool classroom.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;Traditional classroom teachers can use them for classroom centers or send them home for with students.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Parents can expand learning and practice by selecting file folder games utilizing skills they would like their child to learn, or become stronger in.&amp;nbsp; File folder games travel well so take them with you on appointments where you know your child will have some waiting time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;File Folder Fun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a free website that is regularly updated with new games.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  They even offer&lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/FileFolderTemplates.html"&gt; file folder game templates&lt;/a&gt; if you want to create your own games!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Some of my favorites include:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal; font-style: italic;"&gt;Fruit or Vegetable Medley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Health/FruitVegTP.pdf"&gt;cover&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Health/FruitVeg1.pdf"&gt;page 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Health/Food1.pdf"&gt;page 2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Health/Food2.pdf"&gt;page 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/FirstGradeHealth.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Food Pyramid File Folder game&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal; font-style: italic;"&gt;Cupcake Counting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Cupcakes/CupcakeNumberTP.pdf"&gt;cover&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Cupcakes/CupcakeNumbers1.pdf"&gt;page 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Cupcakes/CupcakeNumbers2.pdf"&gt;page 2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Cupcakes/CupcakeMath1.pdf"&gt;page 3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Cupcakes/CupcakeMath2.pdf"&gt;page 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal; font-style: italic;"&gt;Acorn addition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Fall/LeafKMathTP.pdf"&gt;cover&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Fall/LeafKMath1.pdf"&gt;page 1&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Fall/LeafKMath2.pdf"&gt; 2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Fall/LeafKMath3.pdf"&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal; font-style: italic;"&gt;Some odd turkey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Thanksgiving/TurkeyEvenTP.pdf"&gt;cover&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Thanksgiving/TurkeyEven1.pdf"&gt;page one&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Thanksgiving/TurkeyEven2.pdf"&gt;two&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://www.filefolderfun.com/files/FileFolderGames/Thanksgiving/TurkeyEven3.pdf"&gt; three,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1QTlDAblfKo/T1edWmdLKMI/AAAAAAAADjU/c6b5ZSbkmC4/s1600/filefolderheaven.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="92" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1QTlDAblfKo/T1edWmdLKMI/AAAAAAAADjU/c6b5ZSbkmC4/s320/filefolderheaven.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://filefolderheaven.com/index.php?main_page=index&amp;amp;cPath=1" target="_blank"&gt;File Folder Heaven&lt;/a&gt; offers file folder games specifically created for children with Autism and other disabilities.&amp;nbsp; The site offers a selection of free file folder games and additional games may be purchased as a download.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.childcareland.com/free.html" target="_blank"&gt;Childcare Land&lt;/a&gt; offers a selection of free printable file folder games/activities for children in preschool or kindergarten. What makes this site unique is that there are also teaching videos included to show you how to use some of the activities.&amp;nbsp; While I wish the file folder games were separated from the learning activities, this site is a good resource for printables in general so I wanted to include it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;When creating file folder games my favorite adhesive is by &lt;a href="http://www.scrapbook-adhesives.com/index.php?option=com_products&amp;amp;catid=1&amp;amp;itemid=1645"&gt;EZ Runner&lt;/a&gt;, and it's available at most craft stores in the scrapbooking area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Have you used file folder games with your students?&amp;nbsp; If so, please let me know what your favorites games or resources&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;are in the comments.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-880445897675368691?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/uDeIKisJlgc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/uDeIKisJlgc/file-folder-fun.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/Saqm6998SaI/AAAAAAAABUM/aUcZnPL6m74/s72-c/FFFHead.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2009/03/file-folder-fun.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-4999129748085779345</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-29T09:56:55.318-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Language Arts</category><title>Celebrate Dr. Seuss with Seussville website</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Dr. Seuss' &lt;a href="http://seussville.com/"&gt;Seussville.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;is a colorful and entertaining website for Seuss Fans of all ages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8-5L4CfaBZY/T0vOOmEt9OI/AAAAAAAADho/9-xZaB3GPaI/s1600/seuss.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="247" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8-5L4CfaBZY/T0vOOmEt9OI/AAAAAAAADho/9-xZaB3GPaI/s400/seuss.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Interesting sections of the website include:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;A complete book listing with helpful purchase to links to audio versions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Learn more about&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/#/author" target="_blank"&gt;author study&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Visit the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/#/videopage" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;video page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;for short video clips and interesting facts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Let kids play&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/#/games" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; games &amp;amp; activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;including: &lt;i&gt;Fox in socks&lt;/i&gt; - a fun rhyming game for both early readers and pre-readers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Discover more about your favorite &lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/#/characters" target="_blank"&gt;Dr. Seuss character&lt;/a&gt; under the character tab where you can learn more about your favorite Seuss character, find fun activities based upon them as well as popular quotes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorPlanningCalendar.php" target="_blank"&gt;Educator's Page&lt;/a&gt; is a great resource for teachers and homeschool parents. Here you can &lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/loraxproject/" target="_blank"&gt;learn more about The Lorax Project&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorClassroomResources.php?id=printables" target="_blank"&gt;find Dr. Seuss classroom activities and printables ,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorClassroomResources.php?id=printables" target="_blank"&gt;download lesson plans&lt;/a&gt;, and view the &lt;a href="http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorPlanningCalendar.php" target="_blank"&gt;Educator's Dr. Seuss Planning Calendar&lt;/a&gt; where you can find monthly activities/projects to incorporate in your homeschool or classroom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Don't forget to sign up for the &lt;a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/newsletters/" target="_blank"&gt;Random House Educator newsletter&lt;/a&gt; subscription.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-6281989632657495898?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/LM7GKtB_bw4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/LM7GKtB_bw4/learning-power-of-lego.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/th_sig2.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/02/learning-power-of-lego.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-217879008659859476</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-13T14:36:14.587-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Reading</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Language Arts</category><title>4 Resources for Encouraging Readers</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mZFIp72-R3w/TxCGsWHG1HI/AAAAAAAADeA/IVSMh0ptZVs/s1600/19044158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mZFIp72-R3w/TxCGsWHG1HI/AAAAAAAADeA/IVSMh0ptZVs/s400/19044158.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XRwaY8AJYNc/TxCFRCIDyzI/AAAAAAAADd4/fpTYVWLnDAQ/s1600/reading.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Trying to find something to motivate and encourage your beginner or reluctant reader?&amp;nbsp; Here are 4 online resources that you should try:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.readkiddoread.com/home"&gt;James Patterson's Read Kid Read&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Offers reading lists &amp;amp; guides especially for kids: 0-8, 6 and up, 8 and up, or 10 and up along with &lt;a href="http://readkiddoread.ning.com/page/lesson-plans"&gt;lesson plans&lt;/a&gt; for educators and librarians.&lt;br /&gt;
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Author and certified "Readiologist" Esme Raji Codell has 3 websites filled with ideas, resources &amp;amp; information for encouraging a love of reading in children.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://planetesme.blogspot.com/"&gt;Planet Esme Blog &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.planetesme.com/"&gt;Planet Esme website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.educatingesme.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Educating Esme Teacher Blog &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://shareastory-shapeafuture.blogspot.com/"&gt;Share a Story- Shape a Future&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://bookadventure.com/"&gt;Book Adventure&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for students in grades K-8.  Using Book Adventure's website, children can create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;real prizes&lt;/span&gt; for their literary successes.   Parents also have the option of adding their own "awards" to the program. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning Center.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://starfall.com/"&gt;Starfall.com&lt;/a&gt; has always been a longtime favorite for parents and teachers for jump starting reading.&amp;nbsp; In addition to the free area,&amp;nbsp; Starfall's new Membership area has some wonderful new additions that make it well worth the subscription.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;There are many more FREE resources available (preloaded and updated monthly) at the &lt;a href="http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2009/10/homeschool-resource-toolbar.html"&gt;Homeschool Resource Toolbar&lt;/a&gt;---your free educational browser tool bar.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://wwww.homeschoolresource.ourtoolbar.com/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; yours today and see why over 400 educators use it daily!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-217879008659859476?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/6S7UHiW4GaM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/6S7UHiW4GaM/3-resources-for-encouraging-readers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mZFIp72-R3w/TxCGsWHG1HI/AAAAAAAADeA/IVSMh0ptZVs/s72-c/19044158.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2012/01/3-resources-for-encouraging-readers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-3075927258507460977</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-30T07:35:24.129-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Apps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iPhone</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">iPad</category><title>Montessori Apps</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: normal;"&gt;When you think of Montessori, you don't usually think of an App.  However, I've come across two educational apps that will make you consider incorporating your iphone or iPad into your Montessori lessons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Montessori Crosswords&lt;/b&gt; is for the iPad and iPhone.  It features a moveable alphabet, allows you to focus on just one sound, and allows you to select from 3 levels.  Level 1: simple words with 3 sounds, Level 2: words with consonant blend, and Level 3: words of any complexity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;iframe frameborder="0" src="http://widgets.itunes.apple.com/appstore.html?wtype=0&amp;amp;app_id=384334005&amp;amp;country=us&amp;amp;partnerId=0&amp;amp;affiliate_id=0" style="border: 0px; height: 300px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; width: 250px;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Intro to Math utilizes favorite Montessori Math manipulatives.&amp;nbsp; This interactive app uses Montessori methodology through the demonstration of each activity before the child is asked to complete the task/activity.&amp;nbsp; Intro to Math was also featured in Apple's iPad Commercials in their "We Believe" apple commerical to introduce the iPad 2.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Our Facebook page is where you can post about your favorite online educational&amp;nbsp; resources or ask for help finding specific ones.&amp;nbsp; Plus, each day I post a new daily resource (or 3) you may want to check-out!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Spread the word and join in on the discussion!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-4774316612833273870?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/gIhpLTqzHSE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/gIhpLTqzHSE/join-us-on-facebook.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/th_sig2.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2011/12/join-us-on-facebook.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-2664470404515924480</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-31T13:05:00.458-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Free apps</category><title>3 Free Apps for Halloween</title><description>Just in time for Halloween, you can download these 3 FREE fun apps for your iPhone or iPad.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ywCxcHpeg3w/Tqy9XnALZuI/AAAAAAAADbI/0Z-YOnLZKAg/s1600/henrys+spooky+headlamp.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ywCxcHpeg3w/Tqy9XnALZuI/AAAAAAAADbI/0Z-YOnLZKAg/s320/henrys+spooky+headlamp.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/henrys-spooky-headlamp/id469760219?mt=8&amp;amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Henry's Spooky Headlamp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Children use their finger to move the light from Henry's headlamp to find various objects hiding in the darkness. Perfect for preschool children.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/haunted-house-hunt/id466769050?mt=8&amp;amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spooky Splat&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Splat the ghosts with your finger as they appear. When you splat one, more appear and faster!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Fun hand-eye coordination game.&amp;nbsp; Compete against your friends on the online splatting scoreboard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tap all the items on the screen that match the one on the bottom---in one minute!&amp;nbsp; Try to match quickly for higher points.&amp;nbsp; Wildly addicting...trust me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Happy Halloween!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-2664470404515924480?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/QrXpDIul-3A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/QrXpDIul-3A/3-free-apps-for-halloween.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ywCxcHpeg3w/Tqy9XnALZuI/AAAAAAAADbI/0Z-YOnLZKAg/s72-c/henrys+spooky+headlamp.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2011/10/3-free-apps-for-halloween.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-9111938802359058530</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-29T10:15:00.527-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Technology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Free apps</category><title>Free educational apps</title><description>&lt;b&gt;Lakeshore Learning is offering these free educational apps (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) until December 30th so download your copies now and don't forget to tell a friend!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phonics-tic-tac-toe-interactive/id465184366"&gt;Phonics Tic Tac Toe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ages 6-8&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Using the popular children's game tic-tac-toe as a base, this interactive game requires players to answer phonics based questions, including vowel sounds and syllables, before placing their X or O on a square.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letter-day-interactive-activities/id465471248"&gt;Letter of the Day&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ages 4-6 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Letter of the Day takes students through an interactive review of the alphabet including letter formation, letter sounds and chants to instill proper phonetic sounds.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beginning-sounds-interactive/id465479183"&gt;Beginning Sounds Interactions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ages 4-7&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Students match picture cards that share the same beginning sound in this lively interactive game---similar to a slot machine. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Screen shots and demos are also available &lt;a href="https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/mobile_apps/mobileApps.jsp"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-9111938802359058530?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/0lsQp4xIoFI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/0lsQp4xIoFI/free-educational-apps.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k8_mlRteKn4/TqwJ8EMwnXI/AAAAAAAADaw/arlY2gE2Z3M/s72-c/tic+tac+toe+phonics.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2011/10/free-educational-apps.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-5118559974846634686</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-27T21:34:10.486-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Science</category><title>Chemistry videos</title><description>&lt;b&gt;Chemistry&lt;/b&gt; comes alive with these free videos from the &lt;a href="http://www.jce.divched.org/JCESoft/CCA/pirelli/"&gt;Journal of Chemical Education&lt;/a&gt; which explains and demonstrates various chemical reactions.&lt;br /&gt;
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A favorite on the site is&lt;a href="http://www.jce.divched.org/JCESoft/CCA/pirelli/pages/cca3NI3.html"&gt; this video&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.jce.divched.org/JCESoft/CCA/pirelli/pages/cca3NI3.html"&gt;Nitrogen Triiodide Detonation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-5118559974846634686?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/f7ZHvVk1hpo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/f7ZHvVk1hpo/chemistry-videos.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/th_sig2.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2011/10/chemistry-videos.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-2176031676176402130</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-27T21:20:34.550-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">discounts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">resources</category><title>Educator Discounts</title><description>&lt;div style="color: red; text-align: center;"&gt;Republished for 2011-2012&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Teachers &amp;amp; Home Educators can stretch their educational supply dollars using the following National Discount Programs.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.academicsuperstore.com/"&gt;Academic Superstore&amp;nbsp; &lt;/a&gt;offers &lt;i&gt;Academic&lt;/i&gt; edition software &lt;i&gt;discounts&lt;/i&gt; for students, teachers and schools.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Using the &lt;a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-at-school/educator.asp?"&gt;Barnes &amp;amp; Noble Educator Discount card&lt;/a&gt; educators will save 20-25% off in-store and online purchases.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.swexpress.com/"&gt;Software Express&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; offers &lt;i&gt;discounts&lt;/i&gt; of up to 75% from a  variety of publishers. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.community.officedepot.com/local.asp"&gt;Office Depot Star Teacher Program&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;As a Star Teacher member you'll get &lt;i&gt;10% back in Rewards&lt;/i&gt; on ink, toner, and paper and 1% back on nearly everything else we sell when you earn at least $10 in Rewards. &lt;i&gt;PLUS, members receive a 15% instant discount*&lt;/i&gt; on qualifying Design, Print &amp;amp; Ship Services. There is &lt;i&gt;No Limit&lt;/i&gt; to the amount of &lt;i&gt;Rewards&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.         you can earn and best of all it's FREE.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joann.com/joann/common/content_custservice.jsp?catName=teacherRewards"&gt;Joann Fabrics &amp;amp; Crafts Teacher Discount&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Teacher Rewards Discount program offers:&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul class="disc"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Free discount card for 15% off every purchase* from September 1 to August 31&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bonus coupon for 20% off any one total purchase after enrollment&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;More of our popular, money-saving coupons as a Jo-Ann Preferred Customer.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Personal notice of the latest sales offers, crafting trends &amp;amp; inspiration.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;*Excludes remnants, patterns, gift cards, and previous purchases.&amp;nbsp; See &lt;a href="http://www.joann.com/joann/common/content_custservice.jsp?catName=teacherRewards"&gt;program&lt;/a&gt; for additional details &amp;amp; guideline.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.officemaxperks.com/LearnMoreTeachers.aspx?cm_re=BTSCollegePg-_-CutZ2-_-MaxPerks"&gt;Office Max: Max Perks for teachers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Earn a $10 reward in your MaxPerks account every time you spend a minimum of $75                 on qualified* purchases between January 1st — December 31st — up to                 $100 per calendar year.&amp;nbsp; Your spending balance gets carried over quarter to quarter up to one calendar year                 or until you reach the $75 threshold in qualified* purchases, whichever comes first.&amp;nbsp; All account balances less than $75 will be reset to $0 on January 1st except for                 any member who enrolled October thru December of the previous year. Those purchases made                 in October thru December will carry over into the next full calendar year.&amp;nbsp; Present your MaxPerks ID card with all purchases to maximize your reward.&lt;br /&gt;
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Earn &lt;b&gt;10% back&lt;/b&gt; in Rewards on ink and toner, case and ream paper and                              Copy &amp;amp; Print purchases with enrollment in the&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="https://www.staplesrewardscenter.com/SORC/UserManagement/Enrollment/StaplesRewardsEnrollment.aspx"&gt;Staples Teacher Rewards Program&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Receive 25% off in-store purchases with the&lt;a href="http://www.borders.com/online/store/MediaView_teachingzone-teacherbenefits"&gt; Borders Classroom Discount Card&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/a&gt;and 10% off list price of DVDs for professional use.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;how to get a card:&lt;/b&gt;  Applications are available at all Borders stores, and signing up is  completely free. You'll need to show proof of your educator status when  you submit your application. Homeschool educators will need to show registration with the state as a homeschooler (or in some cases Homeschool group ID card).&lt;br /&gt;
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Receive 15% off on most     products and services at participating FedEx Office nationwide with the FREE &lt;a href="https://psg.kinkos.com/educator/"&gt;Fed Ex Kinkos National Discount Card&amp;nbsp; &lt;/a&gt;for educators.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TFMSb2ZxzfI/AAAAAAAADGk/GAY2-HgewMk/s1600/discount2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="66" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TFMSb2ZxzfI/AAAAAAAADGk/GAY2-HgewMk/s400/discount2.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Register to receive a special 15% off savings card from the Container Store in their&lt;a href="http://www.containerstore.com/teachers/index.htm?capStore=HAL&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_source=chth"&gt; Container Store Organized Teacher Discount Program 2010 .&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;These resources (in addition to many others) are available to you for FREE on the &lt;a href="http://homeschoolresource.ourtoolbar.com/"&gt;Homeschool Resource&lt;/a&gt; or Ed Resource browser toolbars. Download your own today so you can keep up to date on the latest national educator discount programs.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;As always, please let the retailers know how much you appreciate the discount program they are offering.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-2176031676176402130?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/tM4-E3OAuUk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/tM4-E3OAuUk/educator-discounts-2010-2011.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TFLMnWD4iLI/AAAAAAAADGc/WJqNKYK_IgU/s72-c/bdiscount.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2010/07/educator-discounts-2010-2011.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-5351306555467138100</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-21T13:33:31.859-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">research</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Encouragement</category><title>Homeschool Statistics 2011</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/08/10/the-history-of-homeschooling/"&gt;&lt;img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/Homeschooling_page.png" alt="Homeschooling" width="500" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Via: &lt;a href="http://www.onlinecollege.org"&gt;Online College Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;img border="0" src="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/sig2.png" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-5351306555467138100?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/Lu8YdE7T1y4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/Lu8YdE7T1y4/homeschool-statistics-2011.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee349/GDest07/karin%20florida/th_sig2.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2011/08/homeschool-statistics-2011.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-8645233643615617978</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-31T11:45:03.989-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">resources</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Teaching tools</category><title>How to create a homeschool class home page</title><description>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Many traditional classroom teachers have class home pages for students and their parents to access pertinent information, updates and news.  Home educators can also benefit from creating a "class home page"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;for their homeschool.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Why should you create a class home page when you already have a blog?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Unlike a blog, a class home page is not updated on a daily basis, although it may have areas that are updated frequently.&amp;nbsp; It is a good place for you to &lt;i&gt;park&lt;/i&gt; information you or your students may need to access on a regular basis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;What can I include in my home page?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Like any website, you can customize your class home page to meet your needs.  Popular features include:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Calendar: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This is a great way to help your students learn to use a calendar and keep track of upcoming events or field trips.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Video Archive:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Post favorite educational videos in one spot so your students can look at them again or just so you can find them easily!&amp;nbsp; This is especially helpful when planning unit studies in advance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Links:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Do you have websites that your students use frequently? Post them here and make your classroom homepage your browser home page!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This is particularly useful with younger students who can simply click on the links on their class page.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Assignments &amp;amp; Handouts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Keep your pdf's and handouts easily accessible on your class home page. This is especially useful if you are teaching multiple ages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Photos:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Show off your students work, projects or field trips you've recently went on!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;You can share this area with other homeschooling friends or relatives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This area may help some "well meaning" relatives realize how seriously you take educating your child when they can see some of the trips they've been on and projects they've completed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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For more information on creating a class web page please read:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Free Technology for teachers:&lt;a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/05/8-ways-to-build-websites-not-blogs-for.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;8 ways to build websites (not blogs) for free&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3209125569871826496-8645233643615617978?l=www.edresourcesonline.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~4/dwcVBM3gjzI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeacherMatters/~3/dwcVBM3gjzI/how-to-create-homeschool-class-home.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Karin Katherine)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2011/07/how-to-create-homeschool-class-home.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209125569871826496.post-8985286028937267775</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-14T10:53:10.820-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">printables</category><title>Printable Reading Logs</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TTBwgVWEh1I/AAAAAAAADPQ/xEc8uFwcu7U/s1600/owl+book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TTBwgVWEh1I/AAAAAAAADPQ/xEc8uFwcu7U/s200/owl+book.jpg" width="181" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Reading logs are a great way to keep track of student's independent reading.&amp;nbsp; Here are a few made especially for this website as well as links to other FREE printable reading logs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/46870294/Robot-Book-Log" style="display: block; font: 14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; margin: 12px auto 6px; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Robot Book Log on Scribd"&gt;Robot Book Log&lt;/a&gt; &lt;object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" height="300" id="doc_25556111471287" name="doc_25556111471287" style="outline: medium none;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="75%"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=46870294&amp;amp;access_key=key-1zux7c1clwmo6h44v58v&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;viewMode=list"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;embed id="doc_25556111471287" name="doc_25556111471287" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=46870294&amp;amp;access_key=key-1zux7c1clwmo6h44v58v&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="300" width="75%" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/46870615/Independent-Reading-Log" style="display: block; font: 14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; margin: 12px auto 6px; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Independent Reading Log on Scribd"&gt;Independent Reading Log&lt;/a&gt; &lt;object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" height="300" id="doc_28847" name="doc_28847" style="outline: medium none;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="75%"&gt;                &lt;param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=46870615&amp;access_key=key-1a6vxzauq9yzh2qm6e1b&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list"&gt;&lt;embed id="doc_28847" name="doc_28847" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=46870615&amp;access_key=key-1a6vxzauq9yzh2qm6e1b&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="300" width="75%" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;             &lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Additional Resources:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.classroomjr.com/printable-reading-logs/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Classroom reading logs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/pdfs/my_reading_diary_chart.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Activity Village Reading Diary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/general/readinglog/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Enchanted Learning's 12-page reading log&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TPPLc1Vx6sI/AAAAAAAADNE/XFTItx3NMwA/s1600/cyber1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="158" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TPPLc1Vx6sI/AAAAAAAADNE/XFTItx3NMwA/s320/cyber1.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ssww.com/"&gt;S &amp;amp; S Worldwide&lt;/a&gt; is offering 25% off (no minimum) through December 2nd. They have a large selection of Legos, arts &amp;amp; crafts supplies, PE equipment, teacher supplies, as well as&amp;nbsp; educational games, toys and manipulatives.&amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;Use coupon code: E3335&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TPPNWByadzI/AAAAAAAADNI/HFWHdjB1Cjo/s1600/cyber2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="92" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tNwyYJjfhCY/TPPNWByadzI/AAAAAAAADNI/HFWHdjB1Cjo/s320/cyber2.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.containerstore.com/welcome.htm"&gt;The Container Store&lt;/a&gt; offers &lt;a href="http://www.edresourcesonline.com/2010/07/educator-discounts-2010-2011.html"&gt;15% off for Educators&lt;/a&gt; which can also be combined with their free shipping offer using promotional code: HOLIDAY (when you spend $100 or more).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Found any great Educator Cyber Monday Discount Sales? Please share them in the comments!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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