Re: [seul-edu] Someone on slashdot with a question

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

TJ Miller jr wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Mellen" <jmellen@cfl.rr.com>
>
> > Does anyone know of a central website where teachers can go to find free
> > lesson material and/or communicate about new work? If not, would this be
> > useful? I've been looking for material for a television class I'm going to
> > be teaching and it has been hard.
>
> Why not put a web forum of sorts up on seul.edu? The software/ftp is already
> there, so it wouldn't take much work.

I'm not averse to the idea (it's a wiki, folks; _anyone_ can put up a page on
it), but surely you know that there are a goodly number of websites dedicated to
lesson plans.  Here are some:

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ (very annoying, with lots of popups)
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/
http://teachers.net/lessons/
http://www.edhelper.com/
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/

Rather than try to be yet another member in this group of sites, I think we
ought to be pointing people to them when it's helpful but maintaining our focus
on promoting Linux use in education.  I think that's the area of unmet need
we're best equipped to address.

Crack the whip?  You mean the old ice-skating game, right? :-)

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