A couple of weeks ago I published an excerpt from The Practical Ed Tech Handbook . That excerpt mentioned a couple of ways to use Google Jam...

Next Monday is Labor Day in the U.S. For most of us it is a three day weekend. It is the traditional "end of summer" in the minds ...

Disclosure: Make Beliefs Comix is a new advertiser on this site.  Creating comics is one of my favorite creativity exercises.When I was a ki...

Last week I wrote about using the BBC's Week in Pictures as a source of current events discussion starters. Following up on that idea, ...

When I included current events as a regular part of my social studies classes I would always show a map of where a story takes place. The fo...