Please be sure to visit the Field Guide, a gold mine of resources where you will find conversations, how-to.s, bibliographies, glossaries and more.

Questions for Schools

Paul Barnwell has recently launched a website titled Questions for Schools.

The site has thought-provoking content and commentary relating to pedagogy, teaching philosophy, and other related topics.

http://www.questionsforschools.org

The site is "live" and under construction. Paul welcomes any and all feedback!

The Life that Chose Me

Blog of a special education teacher who is also a parent of two boys with developmental disabilities:

http://specialed.wordpress.com/

Teaching Hacks

Teaching Hacks, a blog from an educational technology person - that is an elementary school teacher turned computer geek:

http://www.teachinghacks.com/

Open source learning

Richard Baraniuk has a video (TED talk) entitled Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/25

He is a professor and is building a free global online education system that puts the power of creation and collaboration in the hands of teachers worldwide.

Surviving your first week

Here's an attached file on "Surviving your first week" from the Field Guide, under the When the Going Gets Tough section. It's in a printable PDF format with images and is basically a 'mini' Field Guide covering things important well beyond the first week.

Surviving your first week

Here's an attached file on "Surviving your first week" from the Field Guide, under the When the Going Gets Tough section. It's in a printable PDF format with images and is basically a 'mini' Field Guide covering things important well beyond the first week.

The hip teacher blog

One of the better blogs by a hip teacher:

http://hipteacher.typepad.com/

StemSchool Inc. --- an Indiana non-profit to improve STEM education

StemSchool's (http://www.stemschool.org) mission is to provide free STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) help to P-12 teachers, students, and schools to make school more interesting and better prepare students for the future.