Rouxbe Cooking School

Rouxbe (pronounced roo-bee) is the web’s first-ever online cooking school. We are currently teaching home cooks in 180 countries around the world.

Their goal is to help budding chefs become a better and more confident cook by teaching you basic to advanced cooking skills and techniques – the same things that chefs learn in a professional cooking school – so you can be free from being a slave to just recipes.

Unlike other online cooking sites that focus on recipes, celebrity chefs and short technique videos, the Rouxbe Cooking School is a fully integrated experience that mirrors an actual culinary curriculum, complete with instructional cooking video lessons, practice video recipes, culinary chef exercises, progress reporting, cooking quizzes, and personal chef support.

Rouxbe is a complement, not competitor, to other cooking and recipe resources. If you have a favorite cookbook, culinary magazine, television food program or other online food site, that’s great, keep it. Come to Rouxbe to learn cooking techniques and skills and then use your newly-acquired cooking skills to tackle any recipe, from any resource, with confidence.

Full access to the Rouxbe Cooking School requires a paid Premium Membership that is a fraction of the cost of any cooking school or recreational cooking program. For the cost of a single fancy dinner out, you can attend a professional cooking school at home for an entire year, complete with personal chef support. Payment options are monthly ($15), annual ($99) or lifetime ($199) for enrollment.

Rouxbe offers a free sample lesson every day and all of our instructional video recipes, text recipes, tip and technique videos and community forums are free. You don’t even have to sign up to learn a great deal on Rouxbe.
http://rouxbe.com/cooking-school

Thirty-Eight Interesting Ways* to use Wordle in the Classroom

Wordle.net is an interesting way to create word clouds from text you or your students provide. The presentation below by Tom Barrett is well worth the look.

Technology Training Videos for Teachers

The sheer amount of new tools being released on the Internet makes it difficult to stay up to date with what’s new and what can apply best to your specific discipline. Instead of wasting hours randomly searching for new things when you have a spare moment, try some of the instructional videos prepared by Russell Stannard. He runs a great site called http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/index.html. Already he has a multitude of great videos, including videos on topics like:

• JING-Fantastic Screencasting Tool
• Easy podcasting
• Introduction to Moodle
• Make on-line surveys
• Downloading from YouTube
• How to use Blogger
• All about Delicious
• Photoshop basics

All free for you to use. Russell Stannard is a principal lecturer in Multimedia/ICT at the University of Westminster in London England and his academic focus is on English language teaching. He has taken the time to create several videos outlining tools and websites that are specifically useful to English language teaching, such as:

• Amazing 3D dialogue builder
• Best ELT sites 2008
• Best pronunciation Sites
• Great dictation site
• Voicethread presentation tool
• Review of the best ELT podcasts

So overall he provides a fantastic repository of short videos that can help you in your research for useful tools in your teaching related practice. You can keep up to date with Russell’s new material by either subscribing to his email newsletter on his website or following him on twitter.

Education Blogs by Discipline

This is a place to find and list subject-specific, P-12-oriented blogs that are worth sharing with others.

http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Education+Blogs+by+Discipline