June 16 - Teachers.Net Tip of the Day:
The Teachers.Net Chat Center
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Today, this 16th day of June, I present to you my number one page on Teachers.Net - the Chat Center. The crossroads of Teachers.Net, this single page allows you to instantly stay abreast of the latest discussions on over 10 dozen teacher chatboards!
The Latest Buzz
The Chat Center is your direct connection to the latest buzz on every
chatboard on the Teachers.Net Website. From the amazingly
high-volume Teacher Chatboard, to the high spirited grade level and
subject area chatboards, to the finely cultured discussions on the state
chatboards, you can watch them all develop before your eyes on the
Teachers.Net Chat Center.
The Fastest Teacher Chatboard on the Web!
The latest posts on the Teachers.Net
Teacher Chatboard are
displayed in their full glory at the very top of the Chat Center.
With a two-minute reload trigger, you can bet the page will be different,
featuring interesting new posts on this amazing chatboard, each and every
time. Watch the teacher discussions unfold in real-time, right before
your eyes. there's no other teacher chatboard with such volume and
activity anywhere on the web!
Tracking 100 Forums On The Mentor Center
Below the Teacher Chatboard, the Chat Center features the latest
posts on all of the grade level, subject area, and interest group
discussion forums comprising the
Mentor Center. With over
100 unique teacher chatboard forums, the Mentor Center is the heart of
Teachers.Net, connecting thousands of teachers every hour with
discussions about topics essential to their job. Check out the
latest posts in this section, and then check it again in two
minutes. You'll be amazed at the sheer volume of posts that flow
through the Mentor Center at every hour of the day.
The State Teachers Network
Teachers.Net not only connects teachers across different curricula
and grades, it also connects teachers who share a geographic
connection. Teachers from every state and many English speaking
countries can find others who share their interests, goals, and
challenges. The State
Teachers.Net chatboards displays third on the Mentor Center listing,
and just like the listings above, offers a new perspective virtually
every time its reloaded. Find you state teachers chatboard, and
bookmark it - you'll find sharing your challenges and solutions with
others in your state, helps with a great amount of your load.
The Gazette Discussions
Next down the list is the Gazette Discussions. Just like every
other feature on Teachers.Net, we encourage you to provide your feedback
on the many interesting articles that round out each month's
Teachers.Net Gazette. We
encourage you to
contribute to the
Gazette - it's your teacher web magazine - and provide feedback on
every article. Sometimes you'll agree, sometimes you won't - but
your constructive feedback helps others gain a perspective that will
increase the value of the entire Gazette project.
The Project Center
As discussed in the June
10th tip, the Project
Center provides teachers a great forum for connecting with teachers
involved in classroom projects similar to their own. The Chat
Center features the latest posts in all of the Project Center chatboards,
so you can always see what's new in project chat with just a
glance!
Harry Wong Column - Exclusive
Directly below the Project Center latest posts, is the complete list
of Harry Wong Columns on
Teachers.Net. As discussed in the
June 3 tip, Harry and
Rosemary Wong author a monthly column exclusively on Teachers.Net.
You can always scan back articles or read the latest article, hot off the
press, simply by scanning down the Chat Center page. If you're
lucky enough to see Harry out on the road, be sure to tell him you read
his wonderful column on Teachers.Net - he's a tremendously generous
individual, and would be very pleased to hear you saw his work on
Teachers.Net.
Free Lesson Plans - Four Thousand of Them!
Finishing off the listing of content in the Chat Center, is the
latest additions to the Teachers.Net
Lesson Bank. Featuring well
over 4000 submissions, from complete standards-compliant lessons to
fascinating ideas for tiny but perplexing teaching challenges, the Lesson
Bank is quite possibly the greatest single teacher resource anywhere on
the Internet.
Every lesson plan and idea in the database was submitted by teachers just
like you - teachers with great ideas and a big heart - enthusiastically
passing along the secrets that help them master their craft. If you
have a great lesson plan, from a finely drawn out lesson plan, to the
most simple idea for conveying difficult concepts with verve and
permanence, I encourage you to
submit your lesson
plan to the Lesson Bank. Your ideas can live on in perpetuity,
and you can teach thousands of students whose names you will never
know. I love to watch the latest submissions, and I hope to
see your classroom secrets enhance this special collection of lesson
plans and ideas!
That covers the Teachers.Net Chat Center - my absolute favorite page on
Teachers.Net, my browser's Homepage, and I suspect, the first and most
frequent stop for many teachers who visit Teachers.Net. If you pass
along word of Teachers.Net to your colleagues, this is a wonderful URL to
share
(
http://teachers.net/chat/), and when you post to any of the over 150
chatboards on Teachers.Net - I'll see your name appear on this dynamic
and riveting page.
Until tomorrow....
Bob Reap
Site Developer
Teachers.Net
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