Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited Good warmer for World History unit and/or for Animal Farm or V for Vendetta?  By Naomi Wolf - post by cburell

SFETT’s iCan Film Festival de Cine Marco Torres’ San Fernando HS student galleries, annually, since 2001 or so. - post by cburell

Barbara at Dare to Dream, whose Photo-a-Day for Schools Flickr project found the flesh [spirit] willing but the body weak for me (sorry again, Barbara), asked this question to me in a recent post. How can we encourage exploration and following interests with our students and still hold them to some kind of timeline? Clay, [...]

Phuket sunset Originally uploaded by rosswebsdale. Nothing like an illness to clear your head. Mine taught me a lesson in balance. I’ve been so fascinated by the possibilities of our sci-fi educational reality that I’ve forgotten to take care of myself well. It’s also a good time for silence in other ways. Things are slowing [...]

I just visited “Rambling Reflections,” a classroom teacher’s blog from New Zealand, and thought it worth passing on. Why? Because it’s anything but “rambling,” from what I saw, and full of terse, reflective quotes and thoughts, and useful tools for geeky teachers like us.

I’ve been wishing aloud for some time that more non-Anglo countries would join the 1001 Flat World Tales project. So when Hagit from Israel (via my membership in ePals) and another teacher soon to begin work in Kazakhstan expressed interest in joining the project, you can imagine how happy that made me. That brings the [...]

[I've been side-lined for the last week because some medication I'm taking--only for a few more days--has side-effects that make my hands shake too much to efficiently type. I'll be back soon.] Real quick: All these conversations about “Blogging as Conversation” spinning around right now among Jeff Utecht, Barbara at Dare to Dream, Patrick Higgins, [...]

Zamzar – Free online file conversion Online tool that converts YouTube, Google Video, and other file types to .mov or .wmv so you can edit them. (Also converts .pdf to Word, PPT to Flash, much more.) There’s a 24-hour wait period, though. [Correction: It's almost immediate.] – post by cburell