To Facebook or Not to Facebook

I used this to show how to change some of the privacy settings to make it safer for your teens and yourself. People like the various apps available and the linking to other accounts such as Twitter, WordPress, Blogger, etc.
Hope this helps you too..

To Facebook or Not to Facebook

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Babies from Around the World

This documentary will be released in April 2010. Here's a testimony that babies are babies all around the world. I love the end of this small preview and look forward to seeing this documentary!

This visually stunning new movie simultaneously follows four babies around the world - from first breath to first steps. From Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo, Babies joyfully captures on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all.

The Science of 350 - Global Warming

Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity. Now we are at 387. Learn more about 350 - what it means, where it came from, and how to get there. Get involved, see the local cities and what they are doing...
I have wanted to put this post up for a while. I really admire the founders of this website and do hope parents and teachers will share it with their children. Next weekend Dec. 11-13 2009 during the Copenhagen climate conference there be many activities and discussions around the world to share our efforts to reduce the global warming. Several weeks ago I was in a local high school science class where they were learning about CO2. The bulletin boards had no mention - especially of this website.
Our school children can brainstorm how they may make an effort to effect a positive change to lower CO2.
Here are a few suggestions, please let us hear from you too!

• Turn off unnecessary lights
• Wash your clothes with a full wash
• Walk to school if you live within a mile
• Eat seasonal foods
• Eat LOCAL when possible

Please visit the website see what's happening around the world and locally...

Teach to the Child NOT to the Test - The Cultured Web Makes the Top 20

Thank YOU for support! We will continue to post outstanding sites.

Love,
The Cultured Web

YOUtopia - The Free Range Youtopia Grant

Free Range Studios in celebration of their 10th Anniversary is offering two grants of $15,000. One grant to a non profit and another for profit or hybrid. The grant will offer the winners services from Free Range Studios to design a web site, marketing campaign or their services to help further the mission and help the cause of the applicant.

Take a look at Free Range Studios to see the wonderful work they do! We have been admiring their work for a long time....mooooo!

Here are the steps to vote for our project - Teach to the Child, not to the TEST!
Click on this link
You will be taken to this page and click on the Signup at the top right of the page
After you click Signup you will get to another page that looks like this:









Now click on Signup

You will get the next page to fill in your information, it should look something like this:

After you fill in this info you can sign-in, FINALLY, and click on the Education tab on the right.

Go to Teach to the Child NOT to the TEST! and cast your vote for three which is the maximum for this category.

You may vote for any category and you get 3 votes for each one...yes, a bit confusing...I appreciate you helping me out...and if you need more help, let me know and I will walk you through...THANKS!!!! This means a lot to me!!!

The deadline is December 1st. Please tell your friends, families, whomever!!!

Thanksgiving....already?

The Plimoth Plantation Museum in Plymouth, Mass., created this awarding winning site in 2003 and it still ROCKS! I have used it with very young children - kindergarten and 12 year old +(PLUS). There is a comprehensive teacher guide on the site. The site gets busy as the holiday approaches November 26th (2009), so if you need there is the capability to download the entire site (an external hard disk will be need - ask your technology person for assistance) so you don't need to be connected to the Internet and it still may be viewed.
The History Channel has more information that adds to the interesting information such as a menu of what may have been offered for their celebration. Perhaps a discussion may ensue as to why ham may not have been put on the menu. Were they smoking and preserving hams for the winter? The early settlers had to learn to adapt to their new surroundings and the native Americans were helpful to them. Do you know how?


Beginnings...the Canadian, SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology created a website, A Journey into Time Immemorial, both cultures-Canadians and Americans lived near the shore, compare the lifestyles of the two, how are they similar? Or different? How was a woolly dog integrated into their lives and how was it useful? These and other parallels of the evolution of cultures may be found on this website.

Please take the time to review these sites, use the whole site or parts that work for your students and you. Let us know what you think.

New Season, Energies, and Mind Stimulation

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I am very fond of The Visual Thesaurus. I saw it several years ago at a Museum and Web conference. This site made me sit up and take notice of what was happening on the Web and an idea of what was coming with interactives. I use the Visual Thesaurus to look up synonyms or to stimulate ideas of other words that may help express my thoughts better. Learning and seeing go hand in hand for me, I am definitely a visual learner. I subscribe to the Visual Thesaurus and have given it as a gift. There are special annual rates for schools. Vocabgrabber added in May 2009 is a wonderful new add-on feature. You can cut and paste text and it pulls out words and gives you their part of speech and a definition. Words are classified into several groups: Geography, People, Social Studies, Arts and Literature, Math, Science and Vocabulary. Please try it for yourself, let me know what you think.