Great carnival! I've been so caught up in reading all the posts that I now must hurry to keep from being late to work! Thanks for including me.
Carol | Homepage | 10.11.06 - 7:30 am | #

Thanks for another great carnival. You folks are the bees knees!
Mark Montgomery / Textbook Eva | Homepage | 10.11.06 - 4:26 pm | #

Awesome carnival!
the reflective teacher | Homepage | 10.11.06 - 6:53 pm | #

Your usual fabulous job!

Thank you for including me.
Mamacita | Homepage | 10.11.06 - 9:23 pm | #

Education Wonks is like discovering gold! I just recently started an edublog of my own and I've yet to get it discovered. Please visit my site. In the meantime I'll be reading Wonks regularly and linking my site to you. Thanks so much for being here!
Horse Philosopher | Homepage | 10.12.06 - 7:30 am | #

Thanks for including me in your wonderful carnival. Truely educative.
Lakshmi | Homepage | 10.12.06 - 11:47 am | #

Here are a couple of sites with educational do-it-yourself.

Food Force by the UN World Food Program. Free downloadable game.

http://www.food-force.com/

A site for science projects. Makezine.

http://makezine.com/blog/
bernarda | 10.15.06 - 4:01 am | #

Absolutely grand!
Thanks for the link.
muse | Homepage | 10.16.06 - 1:26 am | #

I can comment as a fellow "spy" in teacher ed, if you with- I'm in the Teaching of Social Studies program at Teachers College at Columbia (in a joint Masters/Certification program).

Social Stuides is actually known for being one of the better programs, or at least more useful ones, because it actually involves some minute amount of practical information. I took the methods class over the summer, and a series of teachers were brought in to discuss their experiences in schools and to model lessons. One of them was a recent graduate of the program who had been placed at one of the new, small schools up in the Bronx- he was given Government and Econ his first year there, which was also the first senior class at that school. Hearing about his experiences and seeing his lessons made that experience tolerable, perhaps even pleasant. Ditto for the "developmental lesson" modeler (I'm student teaching for him this semester). All of the guest speakers made it possible to get through Understanding by Design without wishing it was a hardcover book against which I could bang my head.

Other programs are not so pleasant. I'm told that the sister program in English uses solely UbD as a text in their methods class, and essentially discusses no practical information. The sheer stupidity of doing that, at least as far as I can see, is mindboggling.
Pseudonym | 10.17.06 - 9:26 pm | #