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Latest website (you decide)

The U. S. Department of Education has a new website called
Doing What Works 
at http://www.dww.ed.gov/ 
This site has resources and links to these subject areas, with more coming.
Early Childhood Education
English Language Learners
Math and Science
 Plus articles and videos about those topics, and a tour of the site.
Here’s part of what the overview says: “Doing What Works (DWW) is an exciting new website [...]

Latest Favorite

Time to stop complaining and get back to the good stuff. 
 Look what Edutopia showed me!!
I put this on the Science and Math pages although there is help for writing as well. 
Wow, I love the Internet!
 Thank you Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Edutopia.org.
 Highlights for High School. This is Massachusetts Institute of Technology!  Open for you.  Including Build Stuff | [...]

Latest favorite link

Today I discovered Everyday Mysteries  at http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/ .  It has a lot of science (kind of)  questions already answered and organized by subject.  (For example, “Why do bats live in caves?”)
It also has a link to the Ask a Librarian service of the Library of Congress.  From here, you can find out almost anything, if you’re [...]

Latest favorite link

House at Pooh Corner
this site is dedicated to A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard. that means the drawings are the REAL ONES.  (no offense Disney, but your Pooh just isn’t quite REAL.)
http://www.poohnet.co.uk/index.html