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NY Times News Snapshot: Every Monday through Friday, News Snapshot features a newsworthy and provocative photo from The New York Times, along with the basic set of questions answered by journalists when relaying the news-- who, what, where, when, why and how.
The Digital Divide Network: An Inside Look at the New Digital Divide Database
The Digital Divide Network is an online resource that provides news and links to issues regarding technology access for low income and underserved students. The site has a searchable database that plots the locations of organizations providing free/low-cost Internet services.
PowerPoint Invades the Classroom
Software designed for business people has found an audience among the spiral notebook set. PowerPoint -- the must-have presentation software of the corporate world -- is being found in more and more schools. From the New York Times...
Maplewood Elementary School
This is a great school web site....
Web for Teachers Home
The online space for teachers integrating technology into education. This site provides links to a number of online tools and resources from the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium. Includes links to TrackStar and RubiStar.
RubiStar! RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
While many teachers want to use rubrics or are experimenting with writing rubrics, they can be quite time-consuming to develop. RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.
The Miss Rumphius Award This is a wonderful page of links to great classroom web sites.
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