Monthly Archives: April 2008

Forvo has the potential to be a really cool and extremely useful site. The objective of this site is to be able to give you the correct pronounciation of all the world’s words. If they can achieve even half of … Continue reading →

I’m fast becoming a fan of a little site called Quizlet. Quizlet lets you create virtual flashcards which I initially thought was a complete waste of time. However, I have more than one student that loses his or her review … Continue reading →

I’ve noticed lately that an increasingly large number of my delicious links that I’ve bookmarked but not explored are games. I thought I’d try to check these out every Thursday. I think games are a cool way to learn so … Continue reading →

This is the latest stop motion video project to be handed in. You can see the later video projects have been learning from the mistakes of the earlier ones. Here there’s actually a story being told, and there’s relatively smooth … Continue reading →

This video I discovered on TeacherTube is absolutely incredible. Mr. Duey Raps is just a teacher (Mr. Duey, I assume) rapping about improper fractions, if you can believe that. You really have to see it to believe, but this guy … Continue reading →

If you’re teaching astronomy to almost any grade, NASA Science is a site worth checking out. This bright, colorful site is chock full of pictures and features links to pretty nearly any NASA mission that might still be out in … Continue reading →

I’m not a math teacher, but I suffer from the same complaints that every math teacher does, “When are we ever going to use this stuff?” For Math, at least, I have a partial answer. I discovered a site that’s … Continue reading →

In the past couple of weeks, both Intel and HP announced not bigger and better but smaller and less powerful laptops that they are going to be producing soon with release dates set as early as the end of the … Continue reading →

I’m not a math teacher, so I don’t normally have any graph paper lying around. I do, however, use it occasionally to have my classes make things like crosswords, or sometimes art classes use it to help set up a … Continue reading →

Normally I’m not one to show off my students’ work to the greater world, but I’m going to make an exception. These three videos are not-bad applications of stop motion animations. While there’s some choppiness, some weird lighting, and other … Continue reading →