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As the school year begins to wrap up, I have a few final things to share with you. The first is a reminder about the amazing opportunities to network with other teachers in your grade level across the country, and beyond, through the teachers’ clubs on Ning. You’ll find discussion forums, blogs, and live chats [...]

Welcome to Website Wednesday, bringing you some of the best of websites I’ve looked at recently that you can really use. The Mathwire Blog is the math activity blog of a retired teacher. She shares great no-tech teaching ideas and templates, all designed for the elementary classroom. This blog is meant to keep visitors up [...]

Did you know that YouTube has some great video clips for younger students? I ran across a few recently that are perfect for primary grade classrooms. Q Without U: http://www.youtube.com/user/BTLfanatic#p/c/9/5yqcZRjSGKI When Two Vowels Go Walking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fb3Pdt8kxg Both of those are from the Between the Lions channel, which is at: http://www.youtube.com/user/BTLfanatic#p/ A couple more videos you [...]

One of the most common questions I hear when working with students or teachers is, “How did you do that?” There are a number of keyboard shortcuts for our Macs that you might find helpful. Here are the ones that I use most often: Undo: Command + Z Copy: Command + C Cut: Command + [...]