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Share My Lesson - Free K-12 Teacher Resources Aligned to Common Core State Standards So excited that one of my favorite sites for teachers (TES) has created a website particularly for US teachers called share my lesson. It is linked with many other websites and already has more than 200K resources on the site. tags: education news teaching flatclass Amateur Astronomers Help Scientists Map Over 42 Million Stars | Wired Science | Wired.com Citizen science is something we go into extensively in chapter 2 of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds and here is yet anonther example of the power of citizen science. Fascinating happenings in this area and a great way for students to get involved. From my discussions with the scientists involved in the Shout Learning tree banding project,, it is relatively simple to "remove the noise" of errant data. tags: news ...

London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Values - Resources - TES Lessons teaching about the values of the Olympics and Paralympic games. These are coming up in July/ August. You can use this powerpoint as a starting point. tags: education flatclass teaching olympics The Power of Convergence and Collaboration - Resources - TES There is a nice set of videos about sustainability on the tes website including this one about convergence and collaboration. tags: education flatclass environment Rio +20 Teaching resources If you are teaching about sustainability, environment, or politics, you should share about what is going on at the Rio +20 conference ...

Free School Calendar 2012-2013 & Academic Calendar Templates Microsoft Office doesn't have 2012-2013 academic calendars in their templates (yet) so here are some calendars that you can download and use as you plan next year. tags: education teaching calendar planning (7) Sharon Hester - Google+ - Cool Carnival Games for Kids Parties Interesting set of carnival ideas I found on Google plus. Carnival games. tags: education teaching summer parties parenting Summer Party Ideas - Summer Parties for Kids | FamilyFun So, you're going to throw a party? Whether you're a parent or running a summer camp, here ar...

Looking forward to ISTE 2012. Here are the sessions where I'm presenting, there are a few spots open in some of them, so if you're coming, go ahead and register as usually they are full. They put us in larger rooms so some of them have more spots than usual and also, one session (bookmarks) will be in remote iste. I'll be in the Edublogger lounge to try to see people I don't get to see. If you're there, the one thing I ask you is that you come say "hi." I do want to talk to you. I do want to meet people who read this blog and tweet and comment with me. I might look tired or excitedly talking to someone I haven't seen in a long time but the day I don't have time to make new friends is the day I'll quit blogging. I want to help you and meet you. (One tip I'll give - if you want me to do something for you - write it on the back of your business card so I'll remember - I'm weak on auditory anyway.) Due to a family wedding, I'...

(2) Shocked at people... Sometimes the best conversations happen out of the blue on FAcebook, this is one of them I made a comment how some people don't google potential employees to which many people responded with different and very inconsistent policies on hiring and social media. Miguel Guhlin makes a lot of sense that we need consistent policies. tags: education news jobs Rio +20 Teaching resources If you are teaching about sustainability, environment, or politics, you should share about what is going on at the Rio +20 conference June 20-22. Here are some lesson plans that you can use relating to this conference. tags: education flatclass news Rio+20 - Un...

15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World| The Committed Sardine 15 Serious Games Aiming to Change the World http://t.co/yOkbW2LL #flatclass #gamebasedlearning tags: flatclass gamebasedlearning twitter Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here .

Jollyphonics - Resources - TES If you're a language teacher, it makes a lot of sense to join an international community of language teachers for that specific language. I've seen some very vibrant language communities and contributors. If you teach german or know someone who teaches german, you may want to forward them the link to the person who contributed these lesson plans teaching German. There are experts in many different languages but this "rhawkes" is one of the most prolific. This is a phonics lesson to help beginning students understand german. tags: flatclass german news Common Patterns Between German and English - Resources - TES As you teach languages, this sort of comparison is an excellent tool. It compares German and English spellings. tags: ...