January 26

Weekly Sting #4

Fort Worth Star Telegram
We do not receive the newspaper in the library. I have,however, subscribed to the electronic version via the N.I.E. program (they no longer send hard copies through the NIE program). You, too, can register and have access to the electronic version. It is a duplicate of the print version and you can print individual articles from the paper. Go to http://nie.star-telegram.com
For a copy of Reviewing Inaugural History go to http://nie.star-telegram.com/UserFiles/File/Inaugural_History.pdf

Smithsonian Free Online Conference on Abraham Lincoln
http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/professional_development/conference/2009/lincoln/index.html
I have more info my office if you’d like to see it.

Discovery Education
http://discoveryeducation.com/
Discovery Education has some free resources students can access at home, primarily videos and web resources. There’s Homework Help pages for the 4 main content areas. The World Languages Homework Help page includes links to sites for Latin and Spanish resources. Puzzlemaker lets you “Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more using your own word lists.”

Nature comic book
You can request up to 200 copies of the current Nature comic for free. See http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/comics.html where you can also download it.

Danteworlds
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/
Explore the worlds Dante created

7 Habits of Highly Effective People- Free audiobook download
http://www.audible.com/adbl/entry/offers/productPromo2.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1242957466.1232733612@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgadegfijdjjecefecekjdffidfmf.0&productID=FR_COVE_000032


Posted January 26, 2009 by Fred Jahns in category news, Reference, Weekly Sting

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