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

• Christmas Murder Mystery - Resources - TES

  Santa Murder Mystery - writing activity. Download this word document to bring this to your classroom or adapt.

  tags: education christmas writing

• ENTER SANTA CLAUS COMMUNICATION CENTER

  For adults only, this Santa communication center helps teach adults how Santa writes his letters to children.

  tags: education learning

• Make My Own Game - Flash Game Maker on Sploder!

  A website where you can make your own video games. Sploder is in beta.

  tags: education gamebasedlearning programming

• Collection of Christmas resources - Resources - TES

  A list of Christmas activities on the TES website. Tons of templates and activities.

  tags: education christmas activities

• Are All Bloggers Journalists? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

  A judge rules that a blogger is not a journalist because she was not affiliated with a "newspaper, magazine, periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service,news or feature syndicate, or cable television syndicate." I find this definition troublesome. For example, my blog is featured on alltop - does that mean I'm syndicated and now safe? I have a book in January, does that mean I'm safe as a journalist? When is one just a person writing and when does a person become a "journalist" per se? Bottom line,be careful what you say on your blog - the definition of journalist is still very much defined by a main stream media mindset.

  tags: education blogging web2

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