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Carnegie Mellon High Gatekeeper courses
Carnegie Mellon offers free "high gatekeeper" courses, defined as classes that have poor success rates but are important to getting degrees. The goal is to create courses that adapt to different learning styles and raise student success and completion rat
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
Epals
Student-safe, protected e-mail and social networking for connecting classrooms in over 200 countries around the world... Find specific classrooms to match up with, join projects, explore languages and cultures at all age levels.
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
Facing the Future
It's all connected! Climate change. Population growth. Poverty. Environmental degradation. Conflict. Global health crises. Intractable global problems? We don't think so. At Facing the Future we believe in the trans-formative power of widespread, systemic
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
WritingFix
Writing Fix - For Teachers, Students & Writers interactive prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
Visual Thesaurus
Active website to expand student's love of words and vocabulary building.
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
Lightspeed
One of the new, SMART internet web filters which allows individual teacher control of individual web-pages. EVERY school should have this kind of filter. NO MORE BLOCKING THE ENTIRE INTERNET.
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
Glimpsing the Brains Powers (and Limits)
New York Times article on the American Museum of Natural History's exhibit on the most complicated object in the universe.
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
WINK
WINK
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and gener
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
Science is Fun
Kids of all ages can use the links below to discover the fun and excitement of science in everyday activities and special projects.
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011
Virtual Skies
Explore the exciting worlds of aviation technology and air traffic management.
Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011