This compilation of resources across PBS programs is a treasure trove for teachers looking for lesson plans, audio, video, projects and interactive sites for reading and language arts, as well as geog..

You don’t have to understand the physics behind riding a bicycle to enjoy a good ride, but if you want to find out how things work, you can’t do better than perusing this site . Topics include the whe..

Ask the Owls is a new service for teaching and learning online. On Ask the Owls anyone can who has a skill or knowledge that they want to share with others in an online classroom can do so. To teach a course just sign up as an "owl," complete a short course description form, upload your course hand-outs, then schedule your live class meeting. When the time comes to start your class just enter your classroom and click "start call" to start broadcasting with your webcam and microphone. A live chat box is enabled for your students to use while you're presenting.

Courses can be publicly listed on Ask the Owls. If you want to learn a new skill or learn some new knowledge, just browse through the course listings and sign-up if there is room in a course. Courses are currently limited to ten enrollees at a time. If you do sign-up for a course, but change your mind about taking the course make sure that you un-enroll so that someone else can get in.

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Ask the Owls has a course enrollment limit of ten which makes it appropriate for small online tutoring sessions. Ask the Owls could be a good platform for peer tutoring groups to use.

Last night I received an email from a reader, Jill Parrott, with some important information about the popular webquest builder Zunal. Apparently there has been a rash of users' content disappearing from their webquests without warning. Zunal has posted a note explaining that a bit of malicious code was uploaded to the site. That malicious code locked the resources table on Zunal. Zunal is working to fix the problem. In the meantime you can log into your account and add or delete resources manually if you cannot wait for Zunal to restore things.

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