Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 12/04/2011

• Professor Boyer and class request Skype chat with Aung San Suu Kyi - YouTube

  I have a blog post about this going up on Sunday, but this Virginia Tech professor, John Boyer, used a youtube video to request a skype meeting with Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and on Monday they will be skyping at 7pm EAstern. Wow.

  tags: education social media history_teacher edu_news

• RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

  Rhyming words. Great for those students who are struggling to find that one word in the sonnet they need to write.

  tags: education literature literature_teacher

• Teaching How to Write a Paragraph Shows How to Write an Essay

  A nice website that does a great job of explaining how to teach non fiction writing to children.

  tags: Education writing

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