Welcome to this week’s edition of Treasure Chest–a list of the best resources I’ve found in the past week for educators.
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.“ –Stephen King
The Online Books Page
Over 40,000 free online books. I haven’t gotten around to thoroughly investigating the site but I thought I would try a test search and see what I came up with. I looked for the classic “Tom Sawyer” and found it easily. There are PDF versions, HTML versions and they are free and available for download!
Ten Items All Should Know When Using Google Basic Search…. Far From Basic..
The Basic Search – The Google Basic Search is usually the first place most people begin a search and it is also the last place they end. Many times students just type in some words and get lost in millions of results trying to find an answer. This article gives some greeat search tips that as the title says are far from basic!
Create an eBook or PDF from Wikipedia Articles for Offline Reading
Another great tutorial from the HowToGeek on expanding your use of Wikipedia.
Take a look at this great Prezi titles “Math is Not Linear” by Alison Blank. As a former math teacher I could not agree more with the message in this presentation.
Math is not linear on Prezi by Alison Blank
For the love of learning: Digital Natives they are not
This a a great post on what really happens when you open up social media to students in the classroom and how to use it to your advantage!
10 Environmental Games That Teach Kids About Earth, Ecology & Conservation
Children can immediately learn that each action has a contributing effect. Plus, these interactive educational websites on the environment make both the teaching and learning enjoyable without losing out on the lessons.
BEST OF 2010: 10 Coolest Websites For Games And Education
BEST Websites of 2010 For Games And Education education aspiring minds. Compilation of 2010′s coolest websites.
Gotta Keep Reading – Ocoee Middle School
15 Free Tools for Web-based Collaboration
In this article, you’ll find 15 free tools to help you facilitate remote/web-based collaboration. Whether you need basic whiteboarding/brainstorming tools or fully-featured project management applications – you should be able to find a tool or two that’s worth checking out.
The Google Docs Drawing Tool Makes Collaborative Drawing Easier
The Google Docs family has a member called Drawings and it too comes with these improved qualities. Plus the Google family of apps is one of our more visited web families anyway. Visit this great review/tutorial from one of my favorite sites: MakeUseOf
Finally, I couldn’t call this a comprehensive recap of this week’s events without providing some coverage of the Apple announcements. Here is Leo Laporte’s TWIT Live coverage of Apple’s announcements this week.
TWiT Live Specials 34: Apple’s September 2010 Event
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