============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #66** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 6147 subscribers http://www.teach-nology.com ============================================================= This newsletter is only sent to the users of TeAch-nology.com, but feel free to forward it to all your friends. ============================================================= **New Additions** *We Got A Make-Over!* If you logged on to our site this week, you would have noticed the appearance of our site has changed. We hope this makes navigating our site easier. When the site was started we hoped for a few hundred visitors and total of a hundred pages for our site. Now that we have 13,467 pages and over 475,000 unique visitors monthly, we figured it was time for a change. *Drop Us A Line!* Due to the overwhelming popularity of our "Ask An Expert" segment we have created a real-time message board system that will allow you to receive daily responses from our Staff. Once you register, you will have IM capability and a unqiue profile that remembers you. Every time you log on, the system remembers you and tells you what you haven't seen Register now, It's Free! http://teachers.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard//ikonboard.cgi ============================================================= 1. Best On The Web For Teachers- Featured Sites Of The Week: A Kid's Heart- http://akidsheart.com/ Pre-K Smarties- http://www.preksmarties.com/ Songs 4 Teachers-http://www.songs4teachers.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- To see more of the Best on the Web for Teachers visit: http://teachers.teach-nology.com ============================================================= 2. Teachers: An Excellent Longevity Article You Should Check! Join the Aging Revolution Instead of the rare individual reaching age 85 and older, in the 21st century most of us in developed countries have an excellent chance of making it to this age. Dr Ed Schneider has written this introduction to a series of articles he's developing to help us prepare to be part of this longevity revolution. 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"I don't want to scare you, but my daddy says if I don't get better grades....... somebody is going to get a spanking........." ------------------------------------------------------------- Like Jokes?? Check Out Our Cartoon Of the Day, Click Below: http://www.teach-nology.com/news/ ============================================================= 6. Download of the Week- PC Download: *Free Converter* "Use Free-Converter to perform all your conversions between units of measure. This software is TOTALLY FREE. Measuring categories include mass, power, energy, length, volume and Pressure. If you want to know how many kW in 1 hp or how many pounds in a kilogram then this one is for you." ------------------------------------------------------------- Mac Download: *Geometry* "This Software calculates Surface Area and Volume of common geometric figures. Some of these include the Trapezoidal Prism, Rectangular Pyramid, Spheres, Cylinders, and Cones. Added Macintosh Command-W to all figure windows. Hitting Enter now calculates volume and surface area at the same time. The formulas used to derive the calculations have been added to the windows. URL in 'About the Author' now links to default browser. Now uses a more accurate value for Pi and Calculation for Area of Circle Corrected." ------------------------------------------------------------- Click Below, To Download These Applications & Others For FREE: http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/ ============================================================= 7. *** FREE Stuff For Teachers! *** Need great advice for what to do before retirement?? If 24 or 64, this is the place to start planning. Receive Free 13 Steps to Investing Foolishly guide and answers to all your financial questions. 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Ask Our Experts- ************************************************************* A question from Maria: "I'm looking for a good grading software, where I can track students progress, print out reports,etc. I am also looking for a lesson plan "maker" software that will make lesson planning easier. :o)Thank you " ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: If you're looking for grading software we have a number of reviews available here: PC- http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/grading/ Mac- http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/mac/grading/ As far as lesson planning software, we recommend: ClassBuilder: http://www.classbuilder.com/ ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "Do you know where I can find a weekly lesson plan generator or template for inclusion teaching?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: The lesson plan generator that we provide includes a section on "accommodations." This model can easily be adapted to inclusive classroom instruction. This generator can be found at: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/ Just click on "Lesson Plan Generator." Good luck! ************************************************************* A question from Lynn: "Could you please assist with an explanation of Mersenne Prime, what I have accessed so far has been more than a bit confusing. Any resource will be deeply appreciated." ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: The best source of information on this topic is located at: http://www.mersenne.org/ Another site that may help is: http://www.resort.com/~banshee/Info/mersenne.html Also try: http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/mersenne.html Did you try our "Student Search Center?" Just click on: http://www.teach-nology.com/mega_search/ and type in the topic in any one of our search engines. There is a lot of information out there on this topic. 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