Happy Mousey Monday to our Cache and Cookie readers! Discovery Education encourages students as well as teachers to remain productive this summer. Following on last week’s post, we want to introduce a program we created for students to keep their curiosity
Holiday spending can spark discussions on financial literacy
From the commercials to the billboards, holiday shopping (and spending) can often spark great conversations with students. If you’re looking to start a financial literacy conversation with your students during this time of year, or if you want to share some great curriculum resources with parents, take a look at one of our partners in
There’s a clip for that!
We are used to hearing “there’s an app for that” from Apple. Did you know that, for many lessons, you can find a video clip to supplement your lesson without reinventing the wheel? Check out this website for the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. Use these videos with a multimedia projector,
For Administrators: Dear Colleagues, Guess what I learned…
At today’s Admin Day of Discovery Kyle and I facilitated conversations about the free resources Discovery Education provides through our many partners, as well as the essential tools and ideas educators can access and use. As we had multiple discussions with principals and tech specialists, the recurring theme became: “I’m going to send this stuff
25 Free Resources from Discovery Education
This past weekend, the CT DEN LC sponsored the CT Day of Discovery. We held in-person sessions, along with having a room set up to participate in the Fall Virtual Conference. I presented a session on 25 Free Resources from Discovery Education. Here is the list and links to the sites. Please share it
Splashtop OS – free, fast loading, Chromium based OS
Splashtop OS is a free, Linux based operating system that allows fast startup and access to the internet. I equate it to Chrome OS. It is based on Chromium, the same system Chrome is based on, and actually looks similar too. It is pre-installed on many netbooks from Acer, Asus, HP, Dell, Lenovo, and more as a
Evernote – great app gets better with web app updates
by David Andrade, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy Evernote, the “remember everything” app has made updates to their web app. Evernote allows you to take and share notes, clip web pages or parts of web pages, upload files, upload photos and search text in photos, and much more. I’m a huge fan and user of Evernote. There are downloads for Windows
Top 10 Free Resources for Educators
Dave’s Top 10 Lists Educator Resources I’ve been reading a lot of “top 10” lists lately and decided that I would do a few this week. The first top 10 list I’m doing is “My Top 10 Free Web Resources for Teachers.” These are resources that I use quite often and I truly believe that
Science NetLinks
Science NetLinks is a great resource for science teachers (and any other teacher looking for science information and resources). They have resources for grades K-12. Resources include lesson plans, online resources, lesson tools, and more. It is all free! The resources are all standards based, internet activities. I have been using a few of them and
Cybraryman’s Educational Web Sites
Cybrary Man’s Educational Web Sites – Cybraryman has a great site with over 20,000 links to educational resources. The site is organized by Educators, Parents, Students and sub categories. He even has lists of educational hashtags for Twitter. It is an excellent site and I’ve nominated it for an Edublog Award. The site has information for