PLP 10 – Positive Family Relationships

Connect with a Virtual Volunteer

November 1, 2012

Digital Wish, the nonprofit technology-integration organization, now offers Virtual Volunteers, a new service on its website that allows teachers to post classroom projects and ask for a virtual volunteer who can serve via video conference; it also allows volunteers to sign up, describe their various capabilities and volunteer to help with a class project. Throughout the school year, the organization will recruit for volunteers in corporations, entrepreneur networks and scientific associations to encourage members to help educators with their class projects. Digital Wish emails profiles of newly posted expert volunteers to teachers who are members, and volunteers will receive email newsletters…

A Little Birdie Told Me…

January 31, 2011

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They’re curiously fun. Perfect for every content area and every grade level. Let your imagination run wild with the easy to use interface and the beautiful illustrations available for use! Sign up for free and you can be creating your own Storybird in no time! Use our free Class accounts to manage students without emails, create assignments, and build beautiful libraries. Web: http://storybird.com/ This information is provided as a courtesy for BISD teachers and…

Calculate the Cost of College

January 28, 2011

The College Board’s Net Price Calculator (NPC) is a tool that students and their parents can use to estimate their “out-of-pocket” costs to attend a particular college or university. To estimate the net cost at a particular institution, the Net Price Calculator first looks at the college’s cost of attendance, which includes tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, transportation and personal expenses. Then, using financial data the student enters into the calculator, the NPC estimates the amount that the student’s family would be expected to contribute to pay for college expenses. Finally, the Net Price Calculator evaluates the student’s eligibility…