Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Hopefully you’ve gotten some use out of Verizon’s Thinkfinity, the subject of an earlier post. Scott Stalder recently sent me another great resource link - FREE, an acronym Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, is a great place to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. There are more than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources from dozens of federal agencies - and new sites are added regularly. There are resources for arts & music, history (social studies), …
Looking for Volunteers!
Exciting news! I’m ready for some “beta testers,” to help me work through the initial stages of rolling out a new web page creation tool to the entire district and I’d like to get a small group of you to help me out. Other than requests for new computer hardware, the number one technology request in our school district is for an easy to use tool for creating a classroom website.
Now, don’t misunderstand, it’s not like I’ve had throngs of teachers beating down my door begging for an immediate resource for website creation; nevertheless, over the last two …
Center for History and New Media
I realize that this particular resource is mainly targeted at the secondary folks, so I promise to follow up soon with something for those of you in the elementary classrooms…
Rarely does a week go by when I’m not blown away by some new amazing educational resource I come across online - and if you happen to teach history, or if you simply want to see some of the amazing work going on in the spirit of online learning and access to information related to the study of history, you must take a few moments to …
We’re In!
Alright…enough of the legislative updates for a while! A few weeks ago I shared some information regarding the hours of “screen time” I put into filling out the LASER Strategic Planning Institute application. Again, LASER is a national program (Leadership and Assistance for Science Education Reform) focused on the development of K-8 inquiry based science programs. Washington State is one of eight LASER regional centers around the nation, which serve as focal points for spearheading regional K–8 science education reform.
Each summer our state accepts a limited number of districts to a …
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