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According to CNN.com, Houston School’s will soon be able to allow parents control of their student’s lunches: Primero Food Service Solutions, developed by Houston-based Cybersoft Technologies, allows parents to set up prepaid lunch accounts so children don’t have to carry money, said Ray Barger, Cybersoft’s director of sales and marketing.
NYT Lesson Plan: Active Reading In this lesson, students write encyclopedia articles focusing on topics in American history. They practice fact checking, assess their own ability to read actively and skeptically, and write memos that educate others on how to do so.
Smelly Knowledge » Multitasking Realities Merlin Mann of 43Folders posits that when one says they are multitasking, they are really just slicing their attention into smaller and smaller chunks.
Here’s a site with Educational Freeware, listed by downloadable or online. Most of the downloadable is Windows only, but a few pieces of the software will run inder Linux.
Billed as “The Educator’s Best Friend”, Education World®, has a ton of resources for teachers and school administration, such as: Lesson Planning Professional Development Administrator’s Desk Technology School Issues EdWorld at Home
There are free resources for students, teachers, and parents over at Math Goodies. Math Goodies is a free math help site featuring interactive lessons, puzzles and worksheets. We have provided free homework help since 1999! There are more than 400 pages of activities for students, educators and parents. They also offer a CD with even…
[Microsoft licences ‘not value for money’, say schools: ZDNet Australia: Jobs: News Trends][] In a series of interviews with education professionals at the Bett educational technology show in London, ZDNet UK found broad consensus that Microsoft educational licensing agreements are too expensive. Especially when there happens to be good alternatives to Windows and Office. [Microsoft…
Fifth grade students at Lewis Elementary in Portland, OR, are using the free services Flickr and MapBuilder.net in their European Exploreres social studies unit.
From KidsHealth.gov, Cold, Ice, and Snow Safety.