Follow the White Rabbit

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Zon is a virtual world that teaches students about the Chinese language and culture. You start the game by arriving at the Beijing airport as a tourist. As the game progresses, your character graduates from tourist to resident and then finally to a citizen, where you can own businesses and create a new continent for [...]

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This site is not really educational, but if you appreciate CGI, you’ll get a kick out of this online game. It’s called Get The Glass.

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I thought that you might be interested in taking a look at this site: Post Your Test.com. It seems that this site receives 20,000 – 30,000 hits per month and is searchable by course, teacher, subject, province and country.

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If you want to have some fun writing dialog, then you may want to check out BollywoodTV. This site allows you to put your own subtitles over Bollywood clips. You can also record your voice to insert as a voiceover. The movies can then be saved and emailed. You may also want to take a [...]

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Mathway is a step-by-step Math problem solver. It covers Basic Math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Linear Algebra, Trigonometry, Precalculus and Calculus. I typed in cylinder [8.67] and this is what it gave me: 
(Click on the image to get a closer look)

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The following sites offer free fonts for you to download:
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And this is just silly video about Ransom kidnapping Courier and nobody listening to wingdings. It gave me a chuckle:

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These are the five points that I use when I teach the students to evaluate a website:

Accuracy (who wrote it and are they qualified, is the information accurate)
Authority (is the domain appropriate to the site, understand the difference between a webmaster and an author)
Objectivity (is there bias, what type of advertising is there)
Currency (when was [...]

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A short video clip on establishing a cooperative-learning environment in an upper-elementary classroom. Teacher tools and student self-evaluation samples are provided.

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If you have a chance, go and see this 8 minute video clip. It shows some very interesting ways of incorporating technology in an elementary school. I love the idea of having the kids broadcast the morning announcements. The full article can be read here.

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