His school is in the running for winning $500,000 in funding in the Kohls Cares Facebook contest. Please, please, consider voting or sharing some votes for my son’s school! Here is a link to his school: http://www.littlelighthouse.org/

Honestly, it is a micacle already that the tulsa community has rallied around the little light house and brought them to the top 40. But we need to crack the top 20 to be awarded! PLEASE VOTE! Its free, harmless, all you have to do is find Kohl’s Cares on facebook, and find The Little Light House and share your votes, please! THANKS!

-Mr. B, aka Elliot’s Dad

I like this guy’s blog and follow him; this is a good post! Some good plagiarism detection / prevention web resources

-Mr. B

PLEASE NOTE: This is a paid site, but, a great VALUE I believe for teachers looking to invest a small fee for added resources during the year. Please consider supporting this site with membership!

Active History offers award-winning methods of bringing world history alive in the school classroom. It is packed with virtual interviews, online simulations, educational arcade games, worksheets & lesson plans and revision quizzes. As the work of a full-time teacher, the site is practical and regularly updated.

The purpose of this website is to provide a summary overview of the First World War. Necessarily a long-term undertaking – and approaching ten years in the making – a significant amount of material remains to be covered.

Whole aspects of the conflict are light on material at present – rest assured, this is not deliberate: in time the intent is that it should all find its place on the site.

A word of caution however; this is by no means an academic website. It’s authored as spare time permits and is geared towards a general rather than scholarly readership. Given this, it is not recommended that this site be used for academic reference purposes for school or university papers. This does not so much indicate a concerning lack of authorial confidence in the accuracy of site content as an acknowledgement that material on the site has not been submitted for formal peer review.

MR. B’s NOTE: WHILE INTENDED FOR COLLEGE SURVEY-LEVEL COURSES, MANY MANY OF THESE RESOURCES ARE APPLICABLE TO SECONDARY SOCIAL STUDIES!

The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.

The great diversity of available sources for use in modern history classes requires that selections be made with great care – since virtually unlimited material is available. The goals here are:

PODOMATIC:  Podomatic.com Free Podcasting network / host to browse other podcasts and share your own (for your students and parents!)

JING:  jingproject.com free screen capture / screen video recorder for podcasting SMART activities, etc.!

What other sites are you using for Podcasting?

5-yr-old: “Goes to schools.”

UNCLE: “Thats neat, what about your mommy, what does she do for work..?”

(pause..)

5-yr-old: “Groceries!”