A study in Canada concluded that people interviewed on rainy days tend to receive lower ratings than people interviewed on sunny days.  They found that being interviewed on a rainy day was equal to a 10% lower mark on the medical college admission test.
When I heard this, it made me wonder about the affect of [...]

Is the bombardment of information technology good or bad?  Are we being constantly distracted or enriched?  Is it possible to learn anything if you are constantly switching between email, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter?  I have had numerous debates trying to answer these questions.  My instinct has always been in favor of technology and now my [...]

Weboword is a fun vocabulary tool for your visual learner.  For each vocabulary word, there is a definition, a cartoon, the Greek or Latin root, an easy-to-understand pronunciation key and the word in sentences.   The interactive crossword puzzles are small and have word banks, which gives you a quick vocabulary activity.  The clues ask you [...]

This clip will give you a new view of what the brain can do.  Eşref Armağan is a painter who was born without sight.  He has never seen landscapes, but can paint them with the perspective of a sighted person.  Researchers from Harvard found that the visual cortex of his brain lit up when he [...]

These Japanese preschoolers doing their Christmas dance might make you smile.  I love the costumes.  If you liked those costumes, you might like the costumes on these two-year-olds.

Maybe you want to get out our your armchair and take a real tour.  The Temperate Forest Foundation offers tours to teachers with the goal of educating them about sustainable forestry.  You can see photos and read comments about past tours and look at the resources offered by the foundation.
French teachers can dream about advancing [...]

I just had great fun taking a virtual tour of my favorite hotel in the world.  When we lived in Japan many years ago, we would break up the long flight from Minnesota by staying at the Kahala Hilton in Hawaii.  Of course our kids weren’t even in school yet so we could take advantage [...]

Here is a website that gives you all kinds of New Year links.  My score on the New Year’s quiz showed how little I knew about the history of New Year traditions.  How much do you know?  Go to Wikipedia if you want to read about New Year’s customs around the world.
I like all these [...]