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This looks really interesting. Wish I could attend.

The second annual Games in Education Symposium, free to middle and high school teachers, is scheduled for Tuesday & Wednesday, August 19-20th and will take place at the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium.

Seems that PBwiki is giving away premium accounts to librarians and educators. Sign up now at the PBwiki Back to School Challenge

Announcing a new way to make PBwiki a part of your classroom this year with:

* A FREE Premium PBwiki ($250 value)
* Tools to help spread the word
* Support for using 21st century collaboration tools in your classroom!

It’s free to join. Sign up to hear about the launch before anyone else.

From Jan Tunison at Scotia Glenville High School (NY):

Scotia-Glenville BC Calculus Wiki

Our BC calc students created a wiki for future classes to use. The students did a great job, especially with adding math content and the editing of math symbols, etc. The awesome teacher of this class allowed her students the freedom to create content, drive the vision of the wiki, and solve problems, and her students rose to the occasion. The student who actually created the backbone for the wiki is an incredible student.

This is an an impressive project! Well done!

Curriki is looking for content. If you have an instructional unit or course you’d like to share with the world, check out Curriki’s Summer of Content.

Do you have an instructional unit or course you’re proud of that you’d like to publish and get paid for?

Interested in earning money this summer to develop a new unit that will be shared with a global audience?

For our Summer of Content initiative, Curriki is soliciting middle
school content in ELA, math, science, and social studies, and high
school content in ELA and social studies. Apply by June 1st, 2008.

After I posted some concerns about GoGooligans last week, the developer of GoGooligans responded to these and those expressed by others over at flickr.

As a result, he’s deleted the “hey kid - click this button when your parents or teachers aren’t looking” feature. Thank you!!

And he’s updated some search terms and phrases to unblock phrases like “breast cancer”. There’s a link on the page to contact them if you find other words and phrases have been inappropriately blocked.

There are three search pages withing GoGooligans and it’s worth looking at each one to see which one might fit your needs:

• Main search page - heavily filtered
• The less filtered version - just what it says, less filtered.
• Student Safe Search - for older students? Lets you limit results to selected reference tools.

I appreciate the developer responding to the concerns. And I’d like to hear reactions from others about this new search engine for kids.

March 6 and 7 - your students’ voices can matter:

For 48 hours, starting at midnight Eastern standard time on March 6, 2008, many student voices will be collected in the name of those suffering in Darfur. Be sure that your voice is among them.

Students can post their comments at the Many Voices for Darfur blog.

(via weblogg-ed)