As I was cyber searching for holiday gifts this weekend, I began to arrive at an unattractive conclusion. Despite all of our efforts to combat sexism, it is alive and well in our toy industry. My daughter had asked for some Nerf products for Christmas, and I was dismayed to see that, on many of … Read more
For those of you new to this blog, I am devoting Fridays during the holiday season to recommending “Gifts for the Gifted”. You can see the three posts that I have done so far here, here and here. You can also visit my Pinterest board on Games for Gifted Students. A lot of these are not just for gifted … Read more
I found out about this fabulous artist, Marta Altes, from the author of the blog, “This Sydney Life“. Like yesterday’s post, my resource is not categorized as an educational blog, but I immediately thought of classroom connections when I saw the artwork of Marta Altes. I love the whimsy and the simple, but unique, quality … Read more
This isn’t, technically, an educational site. But I definitely think that it could be integrated into math classes everywhere, and even high school physics. Remember the movie, Up? Well, Movato Real Estate decided to find out how many balloons it would really take to lift a house. On this site, David Cross explains the logic … Read more
It is time for nominations for the 2012 Edublog Awards, which will be accepted through Monday, November 26th. Now that I’ve been doing this blog for over a year, I feel a little more informed about the great resources that are out there, and I definitely would like to acknowledge some of them. Just a … Read more
I was browsing the Aurasma news to see how other people are using Aurasma’s free augmented reality app, and I ran across a video of a school in my home state, Texas. Heritage Elementary School has used the Aurasma app to ” enhance their educational experience in the garden using the Aurasma augmented reality platform. Students with … Read more