Discovery's Parent Corner

Discovery Education has launched Parent Corner, a free website with interactive digital content for learners of all ages. Parent Corner features Motivation Station, whichoffers creative and useful ideas for motivating students, including tips and suggestions about fitting in at school,managing homework, dealing with sibling rivalry, and more. Motivation Station includes a tool that helps parents pen encouraging notes and cards to inspire their students’ academic growth. Parent Corner’s Homework Help resources include thousands of online videos, simulations, texts, and links in subjects such as science, English, social studies, and mathematics. WebMATH, another resource featured on Parent Corner, is for students and parents struggling with math homework. This digital tool generates answers to specific math questions and problems and displays them in real time, demonstrating how the solution was reached, after a user types in a math problem and clicks “solve.” -Learning and Leading December 2009-January 2010 Edition-

Story Bird

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print.

Tell your stories without a middleman. Create teaching tools for students. Experiment and goof around.

Storybird Quick Tour from Storybird on Vimeo.

A great writing site

Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents.

A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository,research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills – from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.

Math A Tube

Math A Tube is a free website showing You Tube videos to help students in math, specially in the areas they struggle the most.

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper is a website created by BJ Pinchbeck a 21 year old senior at Drexel University who started working on this site since he was 9 years old together with his dad. The website focuses on more than 800 fantastic educational links for students (and parents) to use to help with their homework.

According to the U.S. Kids Magazine "This site is the best homework helper ever." -- Besides, it’s just inspiring what he has accomplished at such young age. Kids on the digital age are just getting closer to the world and to think what was once unreachable is not any more.

Free Parenting Tool

Parents,

I found this wonderful site full of tips makes the idea of watching a movie into a great family adventure which will help you and your kids to share, learn and have fun.

Kids Off the Couch Website was founded by two moms, Diane Shakin and Sarah Bowman, it offers a free, weekly, fun filled, adventure that shows parents how to connect families to each other and the world around them. "Their idea is to get kids off the couch by sitting them on the couch to watch a movie. Which means that you can take an activity that you and your kids would do anyways (a family movie night or trip to the theater) and turn it into a family adventure afterwards (the "off the couch" portion of the entertainment). " From the Goody Blog



The free newsletter includes red flags for parents to know about beforehand, conversation starters for after the movie, and cultural connections.

E-Learning For Kids

Established in late 2004, e-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the Internet for children ages 5 - 12.

"Children from 5-12 build and improve basic skills with the best quality e-learning courseware"

"Parents and educators have a pre-screened source of articles, research, and related links"

Kicking it up a NotchParental Engagement in the 21st Century - Leveraging web 2.0 tools to engage parents in non-traditional ways

The Parents Edge

Gives parents the tools and resources they need to keep their kids safe online. Free guides, how-to's and resources to help parents deal with myspace dangers and online predators.

Richard FrenchOwner\Creator of TheParentsEdge LLC Goal is:

"To give parents information, easy step-by-step guides, advice, tools and tips that they can use to keep their kids safe online. I believe that safety should always be a priority over privacy when it comes to our children".

From Print to Digital

I read this post written by Jeff Utecht on The Thinking Stick and it makes so much sense to our teachers here at the American School, since they are starting to use blogs as a communication tool with their students and their parents. I truly believe that once they get the hang of it they will become amazing bloggers.

Parent Communication: From Print to Digital

Thinkfinity

Thinkfinity.org makes it easy for educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson plans, interactive activities and other online resources. Thinkfinity.org also provides a wealth of educational and literacy resources for students, parents and after-school programs. from thinkfinity.org

The Girl Who Silenced the World

This is Severin Suzuki, daughter of David Suzuki, speaking to the United Nations at the age of 13 in 1992 on behalf of ECO (Environmental Children’s Organization).

Web Safety for Teens

A new program was launched by sprint called 4Net Safety. This program was designed to help teens with a better understanding of the Internet. It is also a website that offers resources for parents and educators in this matter.

Interactive Learning sites for Parents

This is website you need to share with parents to use at home with their children to enhance what they are learning in school. You can find interactive sites on Math, Science, Language Arts, Health, Social Studies.