National Geographic Education Teachers Beta

National Geographic has a completely redesigned beta website for teachers. The site is still under development. This is a seek preview. They appreciate your feedback as new content and features are added. According to the website, "This beta site is just the first phase of a next-generation website with a wide range of free educational resources that bring geography, science, and social studies to life for educators, learners, and their families".

Please visit http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/edu/ to check out all the new features.

Check out Scholastic's live vocabulary competition on April 27th with Word Girl at http://scholastic.com/wordgirl/. Sign up for the free webcast which includes a free ebook.

Vocabulary.com helps you learn new vocabulary in a fun game quiz format by tracking the words you miss, then adding them to a list of words that you are learning. Based on those words you miss, a prediction is made about words you don't know and then they teach them to you. Your progress is tracked as you master new words and grow in your vocabulary knowledge.

Check it out. It is fun and free at vocabulary.com!

Read Every Day!

Encourage your child to enter Scholastic's Read Every Day contest to have a chance to win a custom home library and a poster from Taylor Swift. There will be 31 winners and you can enter every day. Last day to enter is November 26, 2010. The contest's goal is to promote daily reading, of anything - newspapers, magazines, on-line texts, even books! Go to the following link and sign up today! http://www.scholastic.com/readeverydaysweeps/

Read Every Day

Its Time to Buy the Cards!

Well, its time to start getting serious about the upcoming holiday season. I knew it was time when riding down the main street of my town (before Halloween) and saw the Christmas banners already posted on the streetlamps! But I am a step ahead because last year's one snow event furnished me with a great picture that I plan to use for this year's Christmas card. This will be a simple and stress free task by using Shutterfly's holiday cards. I will simply chose my favorite card design from their Christmas cards designs or Christmas photo cards . This year I have chosen the Gifted Tag Christmas 4 x 8 photo card for 1 to 2 photos. I will then upload my photo or photos directly from my computer. I can then add text and other finishing touches. After that I will decide how many cards I need, and order! Mark that job off the list!

Scholastic Launches You Are What You Read

Scholastic has launched a new social networking site for those who love books and reading and to help promote the importance of reading. Users may list the five books that have had the biggest impact on their lives. They will also find the "bookprints" of many recognizable names from education, media, publishing, entertainment and more. Users will have the choice of several activities and have the opportunity to interact with others who share a love of reading and books. The site is a part of the celebration of Scholastic's 90th anniversary and is a part of their global literacy campaign, Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life. For further information visit:
http://youarewhatyouread.scholastic.com/adults/ .