June 6 - Teachers.Net Tip of the Day:
The Teachers.Net Chat Center
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Today, this 6th 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 Teachers.Net Chat Center (http://teachers.net/chat/) is the single most useful webpage on the entire Teachers.Net website. it's so important to us, we made it the most prominent link on the Teachers.Net webpage - located in bright red in the tip top left corner. If you ever want to know what is happening on Teachers.Net, drift up to the "chat" in the top right corner and click.
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!
Get the most out of the Chat Center, by setting your
custom settings on the Teachers.Net Homepage
The Best Teacher Web Forum Just Got Better!
I’m proud to announce our latest release on Teachers.Net - our fully-customized Chat Center. You can now personally set your Chat Center webpage to display the latest chatboard streams from the teacher forums which interest you the most.
Setting up this feature is a snap. In our June 3 tip, "Teachers.Net Quick Links," we showed you how to customize Teachers.Net to display links to your favorite chatboards - your state, grade level, and principal subject. Starting today, these customized settings now allow you to view a personalized listing of the latest chatboard posts in the subjects closest to your heart.
If you haven’t yet set your preferences, it only takes a moment, Visit the Teachers.Net Homepage, and look for the module in the right that says "Find Teachers Like You." Customize your settings, hit "Find Teachers!" and you’re done - it’s that easy. You can also modify these settings at any time through the Homepage, or the link at the top center of the page, which says "Favorites."
To view the up-to-the-minute listing of latest posts custom tailored to your interests, click on the red "Chat Center" link at the top left of the page, or in the left of the dark blue navbar on any page ofTeachers.Net.
Tracking 100 Forums On The Mentor Center
The Chat Center also 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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