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September 2008 Full Text Search!
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page has a full text search function on every
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or phrase you're looking for into the search box. Click "Go" and find
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If depression or thoughts or fears of
suicide affect you or your child, giftedness doesn't matter. First, take action: call a professional, intervene.
Next, use these
resources, to again find a positive direction in your life...
Depression and Suicide
Whether it is the death of a friend or relative, a stranger in another
land, or
a beloved pet, death affects gifted children with a depth and power that
often takes us by surprise. Grief and Mourning includes books and resources that
gifted parents and professionals have found useful...
Miraca U.M. Gross and the University of Sydney present
Gifted
Education Professional Development Package
 | Research-based essential information teachers need; definitions; levels and
types of giftedness; subjective and objective identification procedures;
social and emotional characteristics and needs; underachievement; teaching
strategies and methods of curriculum differentiation to enhance the learning
in the mainstream classroom; practical strategies for establishment and
monitoring of ability, achievement or interest grouping in classes, and the
many forms of accelerated progression through schooling. Offered for
three instructional ranges; early childhood, primary and secondary grade
levels. Don't let the Australian byline distract you; this is international
professional development at its best! |
August 2008 Ready-to-serve Instruction!
August 2008 Highly Gifted
observations by Kathi Kearney
August 2008
PC
Security
Don't risk your identity, especially if you do Internet Banking!
| Are you running a top-rated anti-virus program like BITDefender,
Kaspersky, AVG (available free!) or Trend Micro, or are you still running
Norman or Norton? |
| Are your virus definitions AND your virus
engine updated daily? |
| Is Windows Defender running on your system, but no other
memory-resident anti-spyware programs? |
| Did you run AdAware and Spybot today, with
up-to-date definitions? |
| The new Phishing schemes are
impressive - have you answered any by mistake? |
| When did you last back up your hard
drive? |
| Three of my friends and family have been attacked by malware this
month alone! Follow these PC
Security steps to protect
yourself, your privacy, and your identity! |
July 2008 Resources from the SENG
Conference
July 2008 Highly Gifted
research by Miraca Gross
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20Q
the neural-net on the internet - how do they DO that?
in Variety Store |
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Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
but better than the illusions, are the explanations! in
Brain Teasers: Optical Illusions |
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Algebasics
An online Algebra course in 16 chapters, with great instruction and
examples! (Flash enabled) in Math |
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blobs.org
Is science baffling? Struggling to understand? Looking for help? blobs.org
is here to help! in
Science |
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BrainPop
Health, science, technology, math, English and more... in Math
and Science and Young
Kids |
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Celestia
space simulation lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
(download) in Space
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The Chaos
Which rhymes with enough - Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? in
For the Love of Words |
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Cogito.org
news and features, questions and answers, even mentors, in math and science!
in Math
and Science |
| Conceptis
Puzzles
logic puzzles, including pixel puzzles, Sudoku, Kakuro, Battleship... in Brain Teasers:
Logic & Critical Thinking |
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The
Elements
animation of Tom Lehrer's song..., in Science:
Periodic Table |
| Flying
Spaghetti Monster treats with working (and edible!) googly eyes
,
in Variety Store and
Art (these really are a work of art!) |
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Frame
Games
USA Today's weekly game, plus tons of archives..., in
Brain Teasers: Rebuses |
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GE Interactive Whiteboard
draw on your screen, or invite friends to draw with you! in
Art and Variety
Store |
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Google Earth
combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the
world's geographic information at your fingertips... in
Geography |
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Google Sightseeing
"Why bother seeing the world for real?" The world will never be the same! in
Geography |
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Griddlers.net
paint-by-number puzzles to solve online or offline, in
Brain Teasers |
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HippoCampus
for
high school and college students, a project of the Monterey Institute
for Technology and Education (MITE), in Homework
Help |
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How Stuff Works
from UPC bar codes to Chess computers to Power Distribution Grids, in
Physics |
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Invention at Play
from the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention... in
Science |
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Journey of Mankind
genetic map, exploring the peopling of the world over the last 160,000
years, in
Social Studies |
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JuggleMaster
Create your own juggling patterns! (download) in Variety Store |
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NameVoyager
Where does your name rank
in history? in
Social Studies |
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Ozy and Millie
Where did they find two gifted kids for this strip??
in
Cartoons |
| National
Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
write 50,000 words of fiction
between November 1 and November 30th... you wrote a Novel! in For the Love of Words |
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Nova
companion websites to PBS Nova episodes, including these and TONS more... in
Natural Science,
Science, Social
Studies and Space
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Pentagon-Hexagon Zig-Zag (PHiZZ) Unit
modular origami fold whose locking mechanism is based on an accordion pleat
- really cool! In
Art |
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Jaw-dropping
demo of PhotoSynth
(based on SeaDragon) in
Computers |
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Powers of Ten
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from Earth. Then move towards
home in orders of magnitude...
in Natural Science and
Space |
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Planarity Game
Arrange the vertices such that no edges overlap, in
Interact!
and Math |
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Puzzle Parlor
interactive GamePuzzles, in Brain Teasers
and Math |
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Renaissance Connection
Be a patron of the arts. Design your own innovation. Investigate Renaissance
artworks in depth. Discover how past innovations inform life today, in
Social Studies |
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The Sliding Block Puzzle Page
tons of great interactive sliding puzzles! in
Interact!
and Math |
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Running the
Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Visit
Chris Jordan's other collections... |
| Shift Happens: Did You
Know? and Did You
Know 2.0
by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, the originals... in Computers |
an interactive space flight experience
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Spaced
Penguins
an interactive space flight experience, in Interact!
and Physics |
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Store Wars
Star Wars and Organic Food fans alike will love this! in
Variety Store |
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TerraServer
Satellite photos of (nearly) anywhere in the U.S. plus more! (plus great
maps, too) in Geography |
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TextTwist
Addictive! Rearrange the letters and make as many words as you can, in
Interact! and For the Love
of Words |
| TED
Ideas Worth Sharing - an amazing collection of videos "by the world's
greatest thinkers and doers," in
Variety Store |
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User Friendly
the computer geek's comic strip - literally!, in
Cartoons |
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Vocab Minute
catchy tunes to hum while you build vocab skills for success, in Jr. or Sr.
level (podcast), in For the Love of Words |
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WebSuduko
Number puzzle, but no math required... trillions of puzzles! in
Brain Teasers
and Interact!
| shareware PC version try
Sudoku |
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Wikipedia
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, in
Variety Store |
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Word Sandwich
guess the mystery five letter word, by narrowing it down in the "word
sandwich"..., in For the Love of Words |
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Zome Model of the Month
from the Flower of
Life to Star
Structure, examine and build a new challenge every month!
in Math and Variety Store |
June 2008 Smart Toys for Gifted Kids
(and Adults)...
Lots of summer ideas, featuring
old favorites
and great new toys and
games
that you won't find everywhere else,
many from small toy companies!
June 2008 A Summer of
Gifted
Conferences ... find these and more, U.S. and world-wide!
June 2008 A Summer of
Gifted
Conferences ... find these and more, U.S. and world-wide!
June 2008 Summer Reading for Teachers and
Parents... Gifted Books!
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