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please help!

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Hi, At the moment I am at the stage of doing research to my master thesis, that I mean interviewing teachers. I would appreciate if some of you can answers to these question 1. In the process of educating the young generation, what values are being transmitted to them at school? 2. Do you use [...]

WOW

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

As a former student, and one who has participated in this blog before, I must say that there has been some fantastic stuff posted this semester! It is very useful and some has been great for classroom stuff! Rethinking Social Studies Education

Although Wendell mentioned spelt flour, nobody see…

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Although Wendell mentioned spelt flour, nobody seems to have mentioned that there could be a large number of false positives that could be skewing the results. In fact spelt flour is probably the best example, as it only appears in the American corpus very recently, and not in the British one at all. Off the [...]

How you doing? How’s it going?

Monday, November 28th, 2011

What have you been up to? How was your holiday? Whatcha looking forward to? Good news? Just touching base because that’s what we do. My sister from Virginia came down with her two boys. Hadn’t seen them in like three years. The oldest is a very handsome 17 year old pain in the ass that [...]

Free Text Books

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

Every subject, not too much for social studies, but maybe you have a kid with different interests and need somewhere to point him.. Etc Worth checking out for sure. Free is good. http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Book:Lists/Subjects Rethinking Social Studies Education

Welcome!

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Welcome to the rethinking socials studies education blog, where you are invited to share all of your materials with a community of social studies educators. Although we lost a year of blogs we still have a few years of extraordinary resources on this blog! Rethinking Social Studies Education

Love this. Highlighting these, and talking about t…

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Love this. Highlighting these, and talking about them really should help. Is that our experience? The Spelling Blog

Intresting test

Friday, November 25th, 2011

How do I make test interesting for elementary school students? Teacher Forums – Teacher Chat

Avoiding the needle: Engineering blood vessels to secrete drugs

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Within days of injecting a cell mix into mice, numerous blood vessels form. Can these vessels be made to secrete drugs, without the need for IVs or injections? People who rely on protein-based drugs often have to endure IV hookups or frequent injections, sometimes several times a week. And protein drugs – like Factor VIII [...]

Cancer genetics: Learning the rules for breaking chromosomes

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

The chromosomes of cancer cells aren’t laid out nearly this neatly. Parts of them get broken off and reshuffled, but there are some rules for where those breaks occur, rules that Fred Alt wants to understand. (NHGRI) In many cancers chromosomes get reshuffled, with sections breaking off and attaching to other chromosomes in what are [...]