Mary Nix on June 10th, 2009

These games from Wiggity Bang Games look like fun. Here are the descriptions from the site:
Quelf
Ages 12 & up / 3-8 players / 60 minutes to play
Quelf is insanity in a box! With this hilariously silly party game, you will have outrageous fun with your family and friends. Quelf will inspire you [...]

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Mary Nix on May 20th, 2009

These games are designed to help children understand the basic number concepts.
Count Us In

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Mary Nix on April 11th, 2009

This Friendship Garden Game from Noggin is definitely for littles, but I enjoyed it. I wish my garden grew so easily!
Noggin’s Friendship Garden

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Mary Nix on March 19th, 2009

FREE online AP courses:

Advanced Placement Calculus AB
Advanced Placement Calculus BC
Advanced Placement Environmental Science
Advanced Placement Physics B
Advanced Placement Physics C
Advanced Placement United States Government Advanced Placement United StatesHistory

–Mary Nix

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Mary Nix on March 11th, 2009

Literacy Connections provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy. We recommend resources that are useful for teachers, volunteers, and directors of literacy programs. Topics include the language experience approach, phonics, word study, and the best in children’s literature.
Literacy Connections

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Mary Nix on December 11th, 2008

Below is a great homeschool resource from Stanford. It seems that more and more colleges are offering open source type classes on the Internet.
SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial [...]

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