============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #68** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 6481 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** *Check It Out!* 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. 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By: Jessie, Staff Coordinator: Temple, OR "Years ago before I got into administration, I would start every year off with this game. I would take out about 100 post-it notes and then give one to each student. Students would get in circle. Each student writes a noun (person, place, or thing) on the card. Then they stick the post-it on the forehead of the person to their right, noun showing. Each person then gets a turn to ask the group a "yes/no" that will help them guess what it is. If they don't get it right, we move on to the next person in the circle clockwise. 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