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Corey Heisel-Education Newsgroups FAQ http://learninfreedom.org/ed-newsgroups.html This website is great because it has compiled several different websites each with commonly asked questions in different fields of education. This site can be very benifital for new and veteran teachers alike because it can easily look up many questions with a huge variety of opinions at one time. Also, you as a teacher can leave your own feedback in response and teachers from across the world can voice their opinions too. This site allows you to look up every subject you would ever need for teaching and has several questions for each topic.

Laurie Peterson - Teachers Cafe [|http://groups.msn.com/TeachersCafe/socialstudiesis.msnw] The Teacher’s Café is an awesome news group with message boards organized into twenty seven different categories. If educators have specific questions or concerns it is easy to navigate the group in search for the answer to a question. Or, if you have a wealth of advice and want to share your experiences with fellow educators the Teacher’s Café is a wonderful place to do just that. The group offers lesson plans, arts and crafts ideas, current issues discussion, special education resources, tests, pictures and links to all things educational. The Teacher’s Café is like a big support group for teachers because sometimes you want to go where “everybody knows your name and they’re always glad you came!”

Ness Garland- Global Software Solutions http://www.globalsoftwaresolutions.net/educational/newsgroups.htm This web site is an awesome tool for teachers to use in order look

up issues from people all across the nation. It is a web site that caters to all subjects as well as all grades including special Ed. In order to excess the site you will need to set up an account which is a very simple process and dose not cost anything. Once you are in, you are able to view an article under the topic in which you choose. Another cool thing about the web site is you have the ability to chat live and communicate one on one with teachers across the country. I think the web site is a help guide for teachers because it provides a range of news groups that you can be apart of and it is not focused on only one subject making it very universal.

Patty Landsly – Teachers.net [|www.teachers.net/mentors/] Teachers.net is one of the largest education newsgroups on the web. There are over 125 chatboards on the site with educators from a variety of backgrounds sharing tips, techniques and trials of teaching. There is a chatboard for student teachers as well. The site also offers a monthly Gazette with current issues in education. There are over 4000 lesson plans from numerous topics and grade levels. Teachers share what has worked for them and what they struggle with. The site is easy to navigate with well marked shortcuts and links. You can search by grade level, state/region, curriculum, interest, or teaching method. You can subscribe to over 100 different mailrings. The service and site are free.

Adam Sharp- The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/kb/forum.jspa?forumID=434 This site is a place where students can go to get mathematical information that helps them solve problems. Students can post questions and get answers to their questions. Such postings include getting formula questions answered that other people can view in order to help them as well. This site is a very helpful in the algebra area. There is also a place for the problem of the week, where students can go to improve their math skills. Teachers also can go on this site and exchange information with one another. This is a great informative site for anyone who is in the field of algebra.

Bonnie Breckenridge K-12 News Group http://www.k12.com/educators/ K12 is a great news group that is designed to help special education teachers, students and parents. The newsgroup provides lots of information and ideas for lesson plans, activities, and situational advise. This website doesn’t only help with special education but with all students and all subject matters. The website also informs teachers of ways they can grow in their career and how they can become experts in their content fields. It offers things such as online courses, it allows everyone to interact as well, answer questions, ask questions, talk about current issues, and of course teach themselves new things.

Jake Meyers- Education Forum http://www.educationforum.org.nz/ Education forum is a news group that allows members to post information and discuss the information with fellow educators. The website has many topics and issues open for discussion and debate. Once a member notifications are sent to the e-mail used during the registration process. Each person can post a comment and then they receive a notification when the forum is updated or additional comments have been made. The topics range from early childhood to international education. There is also a “Hot Topic” area where some of the most controversial education matters are discussed. These topics can help readers and conversers learn more about topics within the education system.

Monica Maurer – Discovery Education Forums http://community.discoveryeducation.com/forums This is a discussion board offered by Discovery Education. Like some other forums or news groups, it does not require you to become a registered member before posting discussion messages; you can join in on a conversation anytime. It is presented in an organized and easy to navigate matter, with broad categories that are divided into subcategories open for discussion. Some of the topics have been discussed more than others, but the general subject of each topic is clearly stated so you can easily find the appropriate issue you would like to comment on or ask a question about.

Brianna Duvall-Science News Groups and New Resources http://sciencepage.org/news.htm This website is linked from the science page. It is a great resource for science teachers and students. There are many subjects that come from every area of science. They are broke down alphabetically into different sections from astronomy to technology. Then they are listed into sub-sections. You click on whatever topic that you want and then a newsgroup will open on that given subject. The newsgroups are also linked through Google Groups. There is even a section labeled Teacher Newsgroups, which discusses different areas related to teaching. There is a newsgroup that discusses the area of the science curriculum. You can subscribe to whichever group that you would like and start posting your own discussion or simply read what others have posted.


 * Meghan Smith-Busy Teacher’s Cafe
 * http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/
 * This is a very good News Group for teachers from Kindergarten to the third grade. It has a lot of very beneficial applications for teachers to use to help them find activities for class. There are pintables for whatever you may be teaching, websites related to all kinds of topics, as well as themed activities. This is a great website for all elementary teachers. It will help with lesson plans for almost any subject and topic covered. The only problem I have found is it does require a subscription to access all these great things.

Stephanie Colby--WWWEDU Forum http://www.edwebproject.org/wwwedu.htm WWWEDU website (pronounced ‘we do’) is the Internet’s largest forum on the use of the World Wide Web in education. There are over 1,600 members from 35 countries that post discussions on the website. It is free to join and you have to email them about yourself to join WWWEDU. You can post any discussion you would like to discuss and people will email responses back to you regarding your topic. This would be a wonderful website to use as a teacher because you get to read what other teachers from all over the world have to say about certain topics.

Adam Padjen- A to Z Teacher Stuff http://forums.atozteacherstuff.com/

A to Z teacher stuff is a good site to talk back and forth and hear the latest in teaching. There are different spots for certain grade levels or for everyone to converse. There when you first get to the site you see an announcements page which shows what is going on in the world of education and what is new with the site. After that you can go through and pick what you are interested in talking about and post back and forth with teachers throughout the whole country. This is well known and largely used site that can be very helpful for any teacher.

Timothy Thrasher-sci.math http://groups.google.com/groups/sci.math/topics

I found this educational newsgroup very useful to both students and teachers. This site can help those teachers that are having trouble relaying a lesson to their class by just asking other teachers for some advice. This board can help students that are having trouble with his or her homework. What’s so great about this newsgroup is that it is absolutely free. In order to access the forum you must have a Google account, but that really can be a great thing because that way someone cant just go to the site and give out wrong information. I found the site really easy to navigate. From the main screen you can search for a previous questions or answers, look at active or older topics, and create a post. This is a really great site to use as a teacher and as a student when you have a question or need help with school related topics.

Steve Cavaligos - American history newsgroups http://www.ibiblio.org/cisco/tour2.html#news This is again a huge resource for history teachers, specifically American history. This is a listing of newsgroups which cater to American history educators. The main focus of many of the groups is American culture but there are also other links to groups of for many of the major american military engagments, politics and elections, the war on drugs, currents events and sports history. Some of the groups are listed as moderated but some are not so it is important to be cautious about which sources you use in the classroom just like you would with any other internet sources.