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TeachHUB 2.0

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:49:00 GMT

Since we launched the TeachHUB resource site for K-12 educators last April, we’ve made a lot of big changes to **hopefully** make TeachHUB as useful, fun and teacher-friendly as possible.

I wanted to let you know about theses changes and ask for your help and advice as we continue trying to make TeachHUB a valuable resource for you and your fellow teachers.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The revamped Teacher Recommendations page should make it a lot easier to find and share you favorite things.

You can now click through tons of the best Teacher sites with a brief description, recommendation from a teacher and a grade.

We’ve also added an on-site Amazon Teacher Store –

That way, you get Amazon’s low prices, but all front-page items are recommended by teachers and the categories will give you much smaller haystacks to find your needles!

Grade-level specific
Subject-specific
Ed Tech
Grade-level books
Teacher Organization
Coaching

Please check it out and send me your recommendations!

INSIDER DEALS

Discounted Masters programs - we’ve arranged through universities around the country that meet one-night-a-week at local schools,
Reduced Price on Pop Culture Lesson Plans – now only $9.95 from $29.95
Members-Only Deals Coming Soon: we’re also working with other education companies, authors and websites to get members exclusive deals.

My question to you is: what are you looking for deals on? We’ll track down your favorites and get you a discount. Just ask!

ON-SITE PD

With school and district budgets tightening, teachers have told us they aren’t being allowed to pick their own professional development days, schools won’t pay for it and sometimes, they don’t even have the budget for a sub if you pay for your own workshop.

This means that most professional development is moving to in-school PD, which takes the choice out of your hands and into administrators.

To get your voice heard, recommend topics and speakers to us AND to your administration. We post the top teacher-recommended topics on the Professional Development page. We can also help your principal find the best teacher to tackle that topic.

OLD GOODIES

We’ve still got all the TeachHUB staples –

daily featured article
latest teacher blogs
featured Pop Lesson Plans
YouTube video writing prompts

But now you find the latest on the homepage.

Don’t forget to visit these fun, but sometimes forgotten features:

Q of the Day
Weekly polls
Teacher Spotlight – You could be our next Teacher Spotlight, just email me at acondron@teachhub.com
Teacher Tips
Share classroom advice, stories or just chat on the Discussion Board

Contests & Giveaways

The new contests and giveaways should be rolled out next week. One hint: you may want to get out your pom-poms and spirit stick!

Please share any recommendations you have in the comments section! Thanks for visiting the site and for your help :)

Cool New Online Course Tool

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:01:00 GMT

Move over Moodle, there's a new player buzzing on the online education scene.

After hearing about BrainHoney, a new online course software site, I was impressed with how easy it is to use, the drag-and-drop curriculum connections, and the fact that it's FREE!

To learn more about BrainHoney and how it stacks up to the competition, we talked to the man behind the software: BrainHoney developer and marketing VP Dr. Mark Luetzelschwab. Read more

This Week in Rap

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:12:00 GMT

Rap music... you get jiggy with it, right?

Maybe not, but many of your students know and love it. Here is a way to use their music to engage them with weekly news and current events.

Browse out to theweekinrap.com. Choose the topic of the week and see that latest slideshow with the weekly news in rap.

The Week in Rap - Obama Inauguration from Week in Rap on Vimeo.

If you scroll down the page, you will find the lyrics to the rap. All the BOLD words are hyperlinks to the article that are the original news source. All the major news crews represent, including CNN, the Washington Post and more.

When you click on "We're landing plans on the Hudson, baby," you're brought to this New York Times article.

What better way to engage and motivate your students than to have a group listen, read and discuss before they report out to the class! You could even have them create their own rap.

Check out their original site which encourages students to learn facts through rap!www.flocabulary.com

Preview of TeachHUB columnist and Ed Tech expert Cheryl Steele Oaks

How do you tap into the interests of your students? Share your strategies in the comments section!

Best Teacher Websites

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:08:00 GMT

Here are a few of my favorite websites for teachers. Check them out and share your favorite in the comments section.

Cool Learning Tools
Smithsonian Education’s Idealabs http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/
Discovery School http://school.discoveryeducation.com/
Edutopia – George Lucas Education Foundation http://www.edutopia.org/
Education Place www.eduplace.com
Hot Chalk www.hotchalk.com

Developing Educational Standards http://edstandards.org/Standards.html
Donors Choose www.donorschoose.org
Assn for Supervision and Curr. Development www.ascd.org

Education Week (news) www.edweek.org
Teacher Tube (share videos) www.teachertube.com
Free Rice (vocab quizzes earn food donations) www.freerice.com

Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans 4 Teachers www.lessonplans4teachers.com
A-Z Teacher Stuff http://atozteacherstuff.com/
Teacher Vision http://www.teachervision.fen.com/
Bibliocat http://www.bibliocat.org/

Teaching Job Sites
School Spring www.schoolspring.com
K12 Jobs http://www.k12jobs.com/
Teachers@Work www.Teachersatwork.com

Retirement Sites
National Council on Teacher Retirement http://www.nctr.org/
403bWise http://www.403bwise.com/
US Securities and Exchange Commission http://www.sec.gov/investor/teachers.shtml

What are your favorite teacher websites? Post your picks in the comments section.