Archive for January, 2007

All new Britannica Student Encyclopedia for winter

Students in grades three through six will have a new way to do research when the all-new Britannica Student Encyclopedia is published this winter.
Prepared by the editorial department at Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., it represents the first new multivolume print encyclopedia from a major publisher in recent years and is designed to provide a reference [...]

i-SAFE Inc.will join 40 other countries to celebrate Safer Internet Day (SID) on February 6, 2007 to raise awareness about Internet safety. The event is organized by European Schoolnet, coordinator of Insafe, the European safer internet network (www.saferinternet.org). Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for the Information Society and Media is once again patron of Safer [...]

Hundreds of teachers, concerned parents and taxpayers have come together as whistleblowers to stop what they consider to be the fundamental reason reform is not happening in our schools – teacher abuse. This step marks the first time that teachers have come together to speak out on what they consider to be the most powerful [...]

I stumbled across this fantastic article on the LA times website whilst I should have been working. It provides some interesting and fun ideas for ways in which teachers could use technology, and the internet, to reduce their workload and stress. My personal favorite tip is number seven:
Figuring out when rentals are due back to [...]

One of the key objectives of this site was to provide teachers with a host of free resources, and a place in which teachers could share their lesson plans with other teachers, world wide. Getting lesson plans up is taking a little more time than I expected, but things are slowly moving ahead.
If you’d like [...]