TIE.net Finds 01/18/2010

• Virtual Stock Exchange - Home

  Welcome to Virtual Stock Exchange, a free stock market game from MarketWatch.
  
  With VSE you can:
  
  * Create public or private games with a cash balance you set
  * Choose from thousands of available games
  * Test your strategy with a personal portfolio
  * Leverage powerful news and research resources from MarketWatch

  Tags: stock, investing, simulation, finance, game, virtual, virtual_stock_exchange, trading, exchange, stock_market, stockmarket, games, web2.0, social studies, math

  • - By Marge Runkle

• Symbaloo - start simple

  With Symbaloo, you can now create your own desktop on internet, including your favorite websites and sources. The advantage is that you can navigate easily to the most important websites, without remembering the links.
  
  Just try to click on one of the coloured blocks. You will see that it is possible to search from the centerbox in useful websites, such as Google or Youtube.
  
  More options…
  Much more is possible with Symbaloo. Listening to the radio, reading the news or reading to your new mail quickly… If you click on an empty grey field, you will enter a new world of blocks!
  The best fun is to find out all of the features yourself, and explore Symbaloo step by step.
  

  Tags: web2.0, homepage

  • - By Lauri Graybill

• Test Your Brain With Brain Teasers and Games | SharpBrains

  Tags: brain, puzzles, teasers, fun, brainresearch, learning, puzzle, sharpbrains, tools

• From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning

  Tags: education, cellphone, CellPhones, technology, mobile, teaching, edtech, Blog, resources, web2.0, tools

• CoSketch.com - Online Whiteboard Collaboration

  CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.

  Tags: collaboration, whiteboard, cosketch, tools, web2.0, cosketch.com, resources

  • - By Marge Runkle

• Lure of the Labyrinth

  Lure of the Labyrinth is a digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters! Linked to both national and state mathematics standards, the game gives students a chance to actually think like mathematicians.

  Tags: math, game, algebra, pre-algebra, labyrinth, mathematics, middleschoolmath, teaching

  • - By Marge Runkle
  • - By Lauri Graybill

• Geometry

  Tags: geometry, cybraryman, tools, web2.0, Maths, math

• whitney music box var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines

  Tags: music, tines, science, math

• Free Project Based Learning Resources That Will Place Students At The Center Of Learning « 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning

  Tags: PBL, resources, lesson pl, project-based-learning

• AASA :: Meet Mr. and Mrs. Gen X

  Tags: aasa, GenX, parent_teacher_conference, dealing_with_parents, parents, customer_service, customer

• Galley Proofs: Some cool science and education web sites, courtesy of ScienceOnline2010

  Tags: scienceonline2010, science, science-games, science_data

• Poets Online

  POETS ONLINE offers you the opportunity to try writing a poem to our current monthly writing prompt. Write it for yourself, or submit it - and if it is selected, you'll share it with the online world. We will only consider poems that are in response to our current writing prompt.

  Tags: poets, intermediate, high school, English, language arts, reading, grammar, vocabulary

  • - By Marge Runkle

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