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Alphabet Coloring Pages

by Barbara Feldman February 1, 2009

After weeks of humming the ABC song under my breath, my newest site is finally finished. Well, let me re-phrase that. A website is never finished, but my newest website is now ready to be announced to the world. “World, meet Alphabet Coloring. AlphabetColoring.net, this is the world!” So, the basic premise of the site [...]

Got Twitter?

by Barbara Feldman January 21, 2009

What’s new here? Yesterday afternoon I added our President Barack Obama coloring page to the American Presidents collection over at www.FreeKidsColoring.com. Those of you who have my Coloring Page of the Day widget on your blog or Apple Dashboard might have noticed it is today’s featured coloring page. With the new administration comes an update [...]

Whiteboard Lessons for Elementary Grades

by Barbara Feldman October 15, 2008

Hi Barbara & Co.: Thank you for making yourselves so accessible. Our school has a new interactive whiteboard, but I can’t find suitable sites with substantive material for the Elementary grades with which I can use this tool. Any suggestions? Thanks.Patsy Dear Patsy, Searching for “whiteboard lessons” in Google, I found the following sites:http://www.scholastic.com/interactivewhiteboards/http://www.theedventuregroup.org/21stcentury/whiteboards.html There [...]

Kids’ Poll Announces Presidential Winner

by Barbara Feldman October 14, 2008

For the past forty years, the kids participating in the Scholastic News election polls have picked the winning candidate. And this week, they announced the 2008 winner. Before I get to the punch line, here’s a short introduction to their polling techniques. “The poll was open to kids from grades 1 to 12 in Scholastic [...]

Math Clock for Math Geeks

by Barbara Feldman October 2, 2008

When I saw this clock, I just had to write about it. How cute would this math clock be in a classroom? l love it. You can get it at ThinkGeek.com for under $30. What time is it? Half past the square root of 64!

Paying Kids to Show Up at School?

by Barbara Feldman September 9, 2008

I’ve seen a bit of criticism of Michelle Rhee’s shake-up of the Washington D.C. school district, which includes a program co-sponsored by Harvard that pays middle-school students up to $100 for meeting attendance and performance goals. But with her exemplary background in public management (with a master’s degree in public policy from Kennedy School of [...]

Kids Spend More Time Online, Less Time Watching TV

by Barbara Feldman August 25, 2008

For kids ages 10 to 14 who are online, the Internet is a bigger time sink that TV. This is not surprising, but was recently released in a study by Google’s DoubleClick Performics. I think most parents probably already knew this. For example, my high-school student watches about 2 hours of television per week, usually [...]

Teachers Using Social Networks to Connect with Students?

by Barbara Feldman August 16, 2008

There is a growing backlash in some communities and states wanting to forbid teachers from using social networking and text messaging to communicate with students. Based on the argument that online “friending” crosses the appropriate boundary between teacher and student, these communities are proposing laws that would forbid it. What do you think? You can [...]

Google Sites

by Barbara Feldman May 27, 2008

Although this will appear in my “Internet Tip of the Week” blog next week, I decided to share it with you here, because I think it will be a great tool for classrooms and families. Google Sites, a free website creation tool, is now open to everyone. Google Sites makes creating and sharing a website [...]

Is It All About How You Feel at the End of the Day?

by Barbara Feldman May 2, 2008

My buddy Don Crowther made an awesome video, about something inspirational that took place on a college softball field in Portland, Oregon recently. But I have a bone to pick with him about his moral punchline. Here’s the video (you might want to get your kids to watch it with you) and you might need [...]

Your Favorite Educational Sites?

by Barbara Feldman April 29, 2008

What are your favorite educational sites? I bet you’ve got a nice collection of really great sites bookmarked. Do you feel like sharing? This week, I want to do a roundup of all the ways you can share your favorite sites with the rest of my readers. We’d love to have you join “our conversation.” [...]

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