Click here to go the CAST’s Science Writer website and Take a Tour to see if it will help your students.

At least a dozen grants are listed and change from time to time depending on deadlines. The opportunities range from actual grants to high tech equipment giveaways of products like cameras or video microscopes.

Sometimes the grants offer travel funds for school staff to attend seminars or to learn from others who are using certain technologies in their education world. Some grants are available for camps for students. The list also gives basic descriptions, deadlines, eligibility, maximum awards, and websites to get more information.

Teachers Network has been in existence for 25 years. For those who don’t know how to apply or write a grant proposal, the website offers that advice. Some of the articles available are: 10 Tips for Grant Proposals, Why Proposals Get Rejected, and Funding Our Classrooms.

Teachersnetwork.org also shares other websites that can help educators be successful at grant writing. You can also find more financial resources for technology and other needs through the lists of websites

Click here to see the activity explained.

The Really Good Stuff web site has many articles and lesson plan suggestions in their Resource area, as well as the opportunity to ask questions of other school professionals using the site.

The have a UDL section to the web site at:

http://cmsweb1.loudoun.k12.va.us/50910068152053/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=93292&50910068152053Nav=|&NodeID=5482

It includes Overview of UDL information as well as Planning and Technology Tools. There is a link to a pocket card with UDL information and to sample UDL Lessons and Resources.

Check it out!

This extraordinary online educational event delivers valuable presentations and unlimited networking opportunities straight to your desktop — all at NO CHARGE!

Attend this 100% online event to enjoy:

• A dynamic exchange of best practices and tips for success
• Expert speakers sharing their views in an effective, interactive way
• A virtual networking lounge to reconnect with colleagues and make new contacts
• Real-time access to other participants through instant messaging
• Technology product and service demonstrations in our virtual exhibit hall
• Free content downloads and presentations to go
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Attend as many sessions as you like, visit the virtual exhibit hall at any time and network when it’s convenient for you.

There are no travel expenses. No lines. No substitutes to schedule. No funding approval needed.

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For a schedule of events and to register, go to:

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They are focusing initially on developing an online repository for K-12 curricula in the areas of mathematics, science, technology, reading and language arts, and languages. They want this repository to attract everyone from educators, students and parents, to programmers, instructional designers, authors and public officials throughout the world to contribute or freely access quality learning materials. (A very similar concept to Wikipedia, which most of us are familiar with.)

You can find lesson plans, teaching activities, student worksheets and more. You can contribute by sharing your favorite curriculum resources. You can collaborate with teachers in your school or educators around the world. If you join (it’s free) you will be able to collect resources in a personal collection, to modify those resources to meet your specific needs, to contribute your own resource information, and to participate in the educational community by providing feedback and comments.

Check it out at:

http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/

TeacherTube is a free resource for videos, documents, audio and photos that relate to teaching. The videos, documents, audio and photos are searchable in channels, including: history education, health, math, reading, writing, social sciences, science, physical education, career & technology education, languages, fine arts, tutorials, special education, and elementary, middle school, high school and college areas .

This web site also has areas where you can set up a group to share information and for blogs.

http://www.teachertube.com/

The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at WGBH recently has received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop a version of the Life Science portion of the Teachers Domain digital library that is accessible to users with hearing, vision, and physical disabilities.

AND…You can help develop the lesson plans that are accessible to students with disabilities and earn a stipend. Read on….

This comes from:   Mary Watkins
Director of Communications and Outreach
Media Access Group at WGBH
Email: mary_watkins@wgbh.org
http://access.wgbh.org
One Guest Street
Boston, MA  02135
617 300-3700 v/fax
617 300-2489 TTY

The Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), a nonprofit research and
development organization, is working with NCAM to conduct research with
teachers of students with disabilities to inform the development of the
accessibility features for the Teachers Domain library. As part of our
research activities, we are currently looking for teachers of students with
hearing, vision, or physical disabilities who are interested in planning six
life science or biology lessons incorporating resources from the life
science section of the Teachers Domain digital library and then carrying out
these lessons with their students. The lesson planning will take place at
teachers’ convenience. The research involves documenting how teachers use
the Teachers’ Domain digital library for planning (using interviews and web
statistics), the lessons they planned (collecting copies of the lesson
plans), how the lessons are being implemented (using teacher
questionnaires/logs), and how students respond to the lessons (through
student questionnaires, work samples, and assessment tasks built into the
lessons). Teachers will receive a stipend of $800 for planning six lessons,
carrying them out in their classrooms, and participating in data collection
activities.

If you are interested in participating, please contact our project partner at EDC, Babette Moeller.

Babette Moeller Email:  bmoeller@edc.org

You can search the software database by the need that it meets, by the type or category of software, or see all the titles. (There are over 150 titles listed.)

You can also contribute toward projects developing new software or introduce software that you have developed.  There is a forum area for discussion and a news section with the latest developments. There is something here for everyone.

The site offers single-player and multi-player games in activities that include:

• Jet Ski Addition
• Island Chase Subtraction
• Grand Prix Multiplication
• Drag Race Division
• Word Frog
• Word Invasion
• Capital Penguin
• Coconut Vowels
• Verb Viper

Check it out at http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/