It seems so surreal that  MY BLOG TURNS 3 TODAY! Whoo Hoo! Go me! Go me! I will say, due to the sheer nature of technology, blogging ages in dog years -- so this is a golden year for me.

As I reflect on a few name changes and the past three years, here are a collection of things that has made me most proud: ...Read More

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With Mother's Day quickly approaching I would love for you - my loyal reader - to give your mom some love. Email me a note saying why your mom is/was special. I will post it
HERE -- with a picture of course. Here's my mom. Please meet Sr. Camille - yes, my mom is a nun and she is special because after raising ten children she entered a cloistered monastery...Read More

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Mark your calendars! June 1st  marks the beginning of 2Think2Learn Summer Fun!  Have  your student learning while vacationing at the 2think2Learn Virtual Campus!  Sign up, here.

Hi Amy, 

I was excited to read your article on involving technology in your homeschool program. I am a teacher from New Zealand and have been homeschooling my children for the past 8 years. This past year I have created an online learning center to assist public...Read More

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but isn't...
Have some fun with 
the PimpMySearch website.

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If you'll recall, I first wrote about wikis with Kathy Cassidy's blooming bloggers here and here.  And thanks to Troy - over at Wetpaint - he connected me to another wiki user, Eighth grade teacher, Teresa Hinkel, who also uses the free We...Read More

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...is a moving and a powerful, true story about a girl "coming of age in China during the CulturalRevolution;" published by Melanie Kroupa Books - Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to interview the author, Dr. Moying Li. (the right photo is of Moying as a young girl.)

A.B. At what point did you decide that SNOW FALLING IN SPRING needed to be told? As a child, was the story play...Read More

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A colleague passed along this site for those in need of help creating timelines. It's called Dipity. 

Okay, so you may not need it today, but possibly tomorrow, or next year - no 
pun - you just never know. 

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I know I've been a bit of a maniac with this cyberbullying topic, but when you're passionate about something it can be - borderline - annoying to others. 

Anyway, sorry if that is the case, but just this morning  - while reading my bloglines - I stumbled upon an unbelievable, super-duper resource for teachers - thanks to Jeff Utecht's blog, U Tech Tips. There are grade level lesson plans and activity sheets at the ...Read More

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Sarah is slightly more involved in social networking, mostly because she has the time. We follow each other on Twitter, send each other interesting links by email even from across the room, and we've used GChat to talk to Addison who now lives in another city.

There's a great story here about emma and chat programs - 

So it hasn't been just games and other computer programs. The kids have been given access to other related technology such as our digital cameras. We did ha...Read More

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If you really want to see a library in a subway station stop, you'll have to CLICK HERE.
 
Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu from the Here and There Japan blog has a straphangers' ultimate delight.  Annie writes, "I had never seen this before! We saw this library of books in a train station. As you wait for your train, you can read a book. You can't take it with you. You have to put it back before you run to your train!"

I seriously doubt that system would work here in the Big Apple -- you think?

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As they got older, computer games became more involved and complicated, and because the computer was in an open area with the screen visible to others, siblings became drawn into what was happening on the screen as well. some single player games became a group effort just by nature of people being there. And the subject matter of some games marketed for "fun" were educational as well. We spent a few years delving through history by way of games such as Age of Empires and Civilization. Other simulation games were a big hit, and the kids learned all kinds of things that way - planning, budge...Read More

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And if you are a new blogger, they - comments- do come. Just don't get discouraged!
 
Here's a link from Problogger with tips on how to generate more comments to your blog. 

#10 is my favorite tip because I run into this comment-hard-to-climb-mountain all the time. Especially from bloggers who have this great post but make it difficult to leave comments. It's almost like looking through the window of a party where everyone is invited - free food and everything - but there's no obvious door and getting inside would take too much work - so you w...Read More

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