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Free: 14 Pre-Recorded Webinars related to ELA Common Core State Standards (Sponsored by Pearson and hosted on Pearson’s BrainShark site; requires registration but no confirmation — so if you don’t want to receive emails or other solicitations, you can register with garbage info). Read more »

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Free! Videos of all 45 sessions of the Google “Education on Air” Conference are now online:

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Free! Stenhouse Publishers is offering “free previews” for the following seven Pembroke titles. You can read the entire text of the books online, for free (registration isn’t even required). Read more »

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Here’s an updated list of the 500 most popular pages at this site, ranked for the current school year (from August 7, 2011 through March 17, 2012). The number in parentheses is the change in rank compared to the earlier period from January 1, 2011 through August 27, 2011.

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (unchanged)
2. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell (+7)
3. Magic Tree House by Mary Pope and Will Osborne (+60)
4. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (+87)
5. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (-1)
6. Fudge, Double Fudge, Fudge-A-Mania, Superfudge by Judy Blume (-6)
7. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling (+105)
8. The Lady or the Tiger by Frank R Stockton (+29)
9. Cam Jansen (+34)
10. The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street by Rod Serling (+2) Read more »

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It’s kind of fun to look at the graph of weekly traffic at LessonIndex.com since August, viewed as a proxy for “lesson planning activity.”

You can see quite clearly what happened during the holiday season: there’s a sharp drop for Thanksgiving, and a bigger plunge during the Christmas/New Year’s break. (Note that the baseline for this graph is not zero.)

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Here’s a graph of daily traffic to LessonIndex.com (updated: August 4 through October 3):

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Today I learned about two “new” companies, called GlobalTeacherExchange.com and TeachingCompanion.com, which sell the same exact products as EnglishUnitPlans.com. All appear to be scams!

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Here’s an updated list of the most frequently-viewed pages at LessonIndex.com since January 1, 2011:

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (3,739)
2. Fudge, Double Fudge, Fudge-A-Mania, Superfudge by Judy Blume (1,735)
3. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (1,172)
4. The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (1,151)
5. The Metamorphoses by Ovid (1,146)
6. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1,117)
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1,079)
8. Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar (1,061)
9. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell (1,043)
10. Beowulf by Anonymous – Beowulf (1,038) Read more »

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Here’s a list of the most frequently-viewed lesson-plan pages at LessonIndex.com during the first 25 days of August. (The number of unique pageviews is shown in parentheses.)

1. The Hunger Games (390) Suzanne Collins
2. The Most Dangerous Game (366) Richard Connell
3. Sideways Stories From Wayside School (147) Louis Sachar
4. The Best School Year Ever (136) Barbara Robinson
5. The Lemonade War (134) Jacqueline Davies Read more »

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I need your help!  Please take a few minutes to check one or two of the literature-title pages at LessonIndex.com, and let me know about any problems.

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