As technology is being integrated into educational processes, teachers are searching for new ways to enhance student motivation and learning. Through shared experiences and the results of empirical research, educators can ease social networking sites into instructional usage. "The Social Classroom: Integrating Social Network Use in…

This textbook is a reader on life in ancient Greece. Chapters include: (1) General Features of the Greek Nation; (2) Men and Property; (3) The Greek at Home; (4) Public Life of the Greek Citizen; and (5) Greek Religion and Law.

Describes a four-week poetry workshop for fifth and sixth graders that tied into the school's focus of study of ancient Egypt and Greece. Describes how the author read poems by Keats and Shelley to the students as they drew pictures while listening, and then wrote poems in response to their own art work. Includes 12 poems written by students. (SR)