Monthly Archives: February 2007

There’s probably no simpler dictionary on the web than WordSource. Simply type www.word.sc into your browser, add the word you want (such as kohlrabi) and, ba-da-boom, you have a link to your word (www.word.sc/kohlrabi). It’s that simple to find a … Continue reading →

As anyone who studies Canadian history knows, Pier 21 is Canada’s Ellis Island, the place where most of the 2oth century immigrants landed and were processed before entering the country. If you’re looking at immigration for a social studies or … Continue reading →

If you’re like me, you like Canadian historical trivia. I like to throw in a few neat “on this day” items and create a small contest for my students every day. The two best sites for this that I’ve found … Continue reading →

I came across a neat little piece where Apple Computers’ Steve Jobs blasted teacher unions for keeping incompetent teachers in jobs. This article from the Star Telegram reported on Jobs’ ideas that if technology is to make a difference in … Continue reading →

If you teach a subject that requires research essays, one of the hardest things to get through your students’ heads is just how to make a bibliography. To make it worse, if you’re like me you prefer one style of … Continue reading →

Where does the budget concious art teacher go to expose her students to centuries of great art? Well, there’s a lot of places, but one of the websites to start at would be the Web Gallery of Art. The museum … Continue reading →

Honestly, I’m not completely sure what you’d do with these pictures, but they were so cool I had to include them. The painting on this website are some of the really neat “artist conceptions” that NASA used when promoting its … Continue reading →

There’s a lot of cool things about art and perspective and such, but it can be tough to get some students interested in studying how that all. Escher’s perspective distorting drawings help draw the attention of the unmotivated students, but … Continue reading →

This is actually a very cool little tool. If you’ve ever read books and wondered where the places in them were, Google Books has added a feature where they’re beginning to map many of the locations mentioned in Google Maps. … Continue reading →

There are really good sites and not such good ones. Qwerty Warriors is a great little site. This one by JPhantom is not so strong.  The site isn’t pretty. It doesn’t have fancy graphics and it doesn’t do any dancing … Continue reading →