I discovered Memorize.com today and I find that it is quite useful. The site allows you to memorize thousands of items either through matching answers, multiple choice questions or answering the question in your head, having them reveal the answer and then self correct. Thousands of categories that individuals have already created to assist in [...]

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With Thomas Friedman declaring that the “World is Flat” again there is always talk about foreign languages in school. Some districts have even opened up language immersion schools so that students truly learn a language. But for many schools foreign language is a still taught in a block of time and may be hard for [...]

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Are you looking for thousands of FREE books and magazines? Google has your not so new but revised answer. Simply go to books.google.com and you will have “pages” of books at your fingertips. Some books are only for preview but thousands of others are available to be read from your computer, downloaded and can be [...]

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I found this online research tutorial from Rutgers University while reading a different blog and thought it would be of great use to all teachers! The online Research Tutorial is interactive and covers 5 basic aspects of creating a research paper 1) selecting a topic 2) finding sources 3) selecting keywords for database searches 4) [...]

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