Grant Wrangler
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Free text reader to help print-disabled students
Students with print or reading disabilities will have a new resource to help them access thousands of books, magazines, and other texts electronically: Bookshare, a nonprofit online community, and Don Johnston Incorporated, a supplemental instruction provider, recently announced a partnership that will give print-disabled students a free text reader to access electronic books from the Bookshare.org library. | Full Story
Web 2.0 Tools For Schools Potluck
This month's Tapped In special interest group, "Web 2.0 Tools For Schools", meets Thursday, April 10th, from 5:00 - 6:00pm PDT. The event is free and open to any educator or student teacher. Bring your 'can't do without' or 'newest to you' tools to share in our session potluck. 
Images available for download from AODdesign http://www.aoddesign.com/.../uploads/2007/07/web_20.jpg
"Live Green Grants" to Middle/Junior High Teachers
Teacher Grants Provide Resources to Spark Innovative and Inventive Thinking in Sustainability
Silver Spring, Md. (March 27, 2008) - Encouraging 21st century educators to LIVE GREEN, Discovery Education and General Motors will award 40 educators in public middle and junior high schools across America $1,000 each to implement inventive classroom lessons on the environment or renewable energy initiatives. Applications for the LIVE GREEN Teacher Grants are being accepted now through May 15, 2008. http://livegreen.discoveryeducation.com/
Purple Comet! Mathematics Meet
Take part in a growing international math meet for middle and high school students. The Purple Comet! Math Meet is a free, online team math competition.
Purple Comet! Math Meet begins at noon GMT April 14, 2008 and ends at noon GMT April 18, 2008. So pick the time that works best for you and your students.
For complete details, go to purplecomet.org and sign up as many teams as you want. Our new Web site is easier to use and has a poster you can print to advertise our contest to your students.
My Award Maker Free Online Templates
"My Award Maker" is a free, no registration site with award templates organized in categories for business, education, and special occasions. These templates are very attractive and there are many to choose among. I have added this site as a permanent resource link under the category "Teacher Tools".
CHECK IT OUT: http://www.myawardmaker.com/education-templates.htm
New Podcast: Bytesize Science For Young Listeners
Retrieved from eSchool News, Wed, Jan 30, 2008
New podcasts aim to make science more accessible - and enjoyable
Seeking to make science more fun and easily accessible for today’s students, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has launched Bytesize Science, an educational, entertaining new podcast for young listeners. Bytesize Science translates cutting-edge scientific discoveries from ACS’s 36 peer-reviewed journals into stories for young listeners about science, health, medicine,energy, food, and other topics. New installments are posted every Monday and are available free of charge. The program’s archive includes items on environmental threats to killer whales, a scientific explanation for why some people love chocolate, and some unlikely new uses for compact discs. The podcaster for Bytesize Science is Adam Dylewski, an ACS science writer and recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in genetics and science communication. Dylewski spent his college career immersed in science and journalism, writing down-to-earth explanations of important discoveries as a weekly science columnist for The Daily Cardinal, UW-Madison’s student newspaper. Later, he continued to translate science news as a reporter for UW-Madison’s communications office and for The Why Files, an award-winning science news site with a witty, fun edge.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/bytesizescience
"Growing Up Online": Resources For Parents & Teachers
"GROWING UP ONLINE"
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 9 P.M. (check local listings)
Watch a Preview: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/
In Growing Up Online, FRONTLINE peers inside the world of this cyber-savvy generation through the eyes of teens and their parents, who often find themselves on opposite sides of a new digital divide. A generation with a radically different notion of privacy and personal space, today's adolescents are grappling with issues their parents never had to deal with: from cyber bullying to instant "Internet fame" to the specter of online sexual predators.
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS: Look for lesson plans, additional resources and a quiz for parents to learn, "What Kind of Cyber Guide Are You?" Coming in late January to the FRONTLINE Teacher Center: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/
"Cheney's Law"
Watch it Online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney
Airdate Tuesday, January 15, 2007 at 9 P.M. (check local listings)
For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive, and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive privilege to head off investigations into domestic wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE meticulously traces the behind-closed-doors battle within the administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law.
Teacher's Guide: The teacher's guide for "Cheney's Law" will help students understand the constitutional powers granted to Congress and the president in a time of national crisis. It also explores how the president ha