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Ria's Web Picks

Puzzle Choice Both printable and online puzzles are available at this site. Crosswords, wordsearch and word play, logic and number puzzles are available at http://www.puzzlechoice.com.

Concept to Classroom: A Series of Workshops These are free online workshops on a variety of topics, from multiple intelligences, constructivism and teaching to the standards to collaborative learning, inquiry-based learning, assessment and more. There is a place that you can check to get credit for professional development (pending approval from your district). There is a syllabus, a letter to administration and a rubric for evaluation. Go to http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/index.html .

School Law Archive This site, posted by the National School Boards Association, hosts the current Supreme Court decisions about a variety of topics including academic freedom, desegregation, employment, facilities use, federal funding, first amendment and dress codes, harassment, liability, privacy and more. Check it out at http://www.asbj.com/schoollawarchive/index.html .

Rebecca's Web Picks

Garfield Island has produced a free Internet Safety 101 kit. That's right comic-strip Garfield. The kit includes a child-friendly browser that parents and teachers can use to surf-control the Internet. The browser can also be set to prevent the user from tampering with the underlying computer. The kit contains a lesson plan for explaining Internet use to children, an activity sheet, an award sheet and the browser. For a monthly fee, Garfield Island provides an Internet community for children that includes a chat room; however, the basic kit is FREE. Visit http://www.garfieldisland.com/teacher_kit.asp .

Kids' Corner is a Web site for people from 7 to 13 years old. You can download games and guides that teach students how to be smart online. Students can discover the marketing tricks used for TV, movies and video games. Kids' Corner provides additional links to kid-centered sites. Give the site a look at http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/kids/kindex.htm .