In her latest blog, Lisa Dubernard examines the cost of free, and shares her experiences with several free sites.

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To learn more about the Planet Teachers' Lounge, please click here . Teaching students how to infer can be a challenge sometimes. Inferring can be difficult, because when students infer, they can’t find the answer directly in the passage or...

Who are you thankful for? I mean, outside of family and friends, who has inspired you professionally? Personally, I'm thankful to the Planet members who take the time to share their ideas. You've helped me grow. I have to admit that I don't...

Lisa Dubernard investigates how she might integrate an iPad in an ActivClassroom. In this article, Lisa focuses on whether the tablet device has potential as a wireless slate and shares her experiences trying out applications she discovered at the International Society for Technology in Education conference (ISTE 2011).

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The third Education Fast Forward (EFF) debate takes place on September 26, 2011. This debate will be on the theme Making Learning Relevant. In an exclusive offer for Promethean Planet members, we have three Flip video cameras to give away in a prize drawing! To enter, post a question on the blog that you'd like to be considered for the debate.

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This article provides you with a simple utility to automatically create 'Guess The Word’ activities in flipchart format. Download ‘Guess The Word’ here. When you download the program you should choose to save it somewhere on your...

We’ve all seen the “For Dummies” books, and if you can get past the implication that you must be a “dummy” if you're reading the book, there is actually some pretty great information inside. Thus, gave me the bright idea...

When researching set texts for Planet's new English Literature theme , it struck me how many of the novels, plays and poems prescribed for 14–16 year olds today are the same ones that I studied when I sat my GCSEs in the 1990s. Chatting about...

I think I must have stopped and started writing this blog over at least a dozen times in the past few months. Why, you ask? It could have something to do with me being a little on the ADD side, but I truly struggled with the path I wanted to lead you...

So you've found and downloaded a PDF. Let's say it's one of the great PDF resources you can find on Promethean Planet. Now, what can you do with that PDF in a 21st Century classroom? In this blog post, Lisa Dubernard looks at a specific PDF she found on Planet and shares ideas on how to make it more interactive.

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