Education Help

I'm not really surprised but I just read a string of messages regarding online help for teachers who have faced difficult situations. The initial questin was to try and find help from others through their stories of similar events. The first site listed was something tried in the UK, the second message referenced a blog for sage advice from teachers at
http://www.edutopia.org . Having found these couple there are probably several sites where teachers can rant and praise classroom happenings.

Stories, video games and Education

Two years ago the National Storytelling Conference held a panel discussion on how stories can be incorporated into video games to help educate. The following link is an amazing example of how story and a video game are being used in a college course to help students learn the concepts of economics. Video games often get a bad wrap but maybe if they are used right.......



Here is the link

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6342324



Play on!



Anansi