Meet Me At The Corner Review

Meet Me At The Corner is a virtual field trip series.  Created from a child's perspective, these unique pod casts feature historical and cultural sites.  A suggested reading list and follow-up activities accompany each video.

I personally enjoyed the Interview with a Veteran:  Evacuation of Saigon.   Young Robert is very likable as he takes us to San Diego to visit  the USS Midway and meet Vern, a retired US Navy man.  Vern tells Robert his exciting story of evacuating Saigon as a Navy Colonel.


As a teacher, I highly recommend Meet Me At The Corner for use to enhance your curriculum or something for fun for your students/children at home.  Meet Me At The Corner provides activities and further study for each pod cast topic:  vocabulary building, fun trivia questions, map skills, listening skills, research.  If I used this in my classroom, I would have library books on the pod cast subject for my students to read.  I think reading comprehension is important.  Read.  Read.  Read.  I'm happy to see that Meet Me At The Corner lists recommended books on the subject, as well as fun websites for more information.

Meet Me At The Corner Virtual Field Trips For Kids can be found at the following websites:

Curriki an open source website for educational materials k-12 has over 80,000 members who are educators and teachers.

Teacher Tube  a video sharing website based on YouTube. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources. To dates TeacherTube has 380,000+ members.

Next Vista Learning online library of free videos for learners everywhere. NextVista.org believes learning is stronger with teachers and students from all over the world contributing content. They have a membership of 6,000 contributors.

WatchKnow  founded by Dr.  Larry Sanger,   co-founder of Wikipedia. Watch Know is a database for "instant tutoring".  It hosts multiple video explanations of the same topics, to accommodate many different learning styles. 


Check out the newest episode of Meet Me At The Corner Virtual Field Trip:  Canine Companions for Independence.

Learning Link Giveaway! Ends 12/18

UPDATE: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! Winner: Susan, Congratulations!

 

 Learning Link Technologies offers assistance through their brain training system to children with learning disabilities.  Whether you are a parent or teacher, you will find this resource helpful.  Learning Links is generously giving away a three month brain training program!

Simply do any of the following to be entered to win:

Subscribing to Lisa's video series
www.braintrainingsystem.com

Joining Lisa's Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80601871492

Following Lisa on Twitter
http://twitter.com/learninglink

Becoming a registered user at www.learning-aids.com
http://www.learning-aids.com/user/register 
(there are benefits to this such as being able to ask Lisa a direct question which will be answered on her site.

Comment on one of her blog entries
http://www.learning-aids.com/blog/lisa

Open Worldwide

Ends December 18

Random Line Giveaway! Four Winners! Ends 12/18

Random line is the creator of great games for kids.  Hey, these would make terrific stocking stuffers!





 


 

Three - count 'em 1- 2- 3 lucky Couchies (BCE readers) will win:

1 Alphabet SQUIGGLE On-The-Go and 1 SQUIGGLE Script On-The-Go

One Couchie will win:
1 Hurry-Up The dice game for ages 8 and Up (great math skills game!)





Visit Random Line have a look around and tell us another product of theirs you think your child would like.

• USA only, please
• giveaway closes December 18th, 2009
• To earn extra entries, click here!

GoJane Giveaway - Closes 18th November!

UPDATE: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! Winner: Lisa, Congratulations!

Does your daughter need something new to wear this back to school season? Come to think of it, ladies, do YOU need something new to wear?

'Course!

GoJane has an extensive variety of everything you could want...Tanks, tops, jeans, leggings, shoes, shirts, skirts, you name it...GoJane has it!

And, with affordable prices, you're not going to be chained to your desk (or tractor, or car, or any other place you work) just trying to pay for clothes which are classy and stylish.

Beat the economic slowdown and check out GoJane. Do it now!

GoJane knows you're going to love their stuff!

That's why they're giving away a $25 gift certificate to their online store. That's twenty-five smackeroos to spend on their whole range of clothes & shoes!

Have a closer look at the items on this page...you can get all this with the one $25 gift certificate! Told you GoJane was good value!

So...what would you buy?



Just go to GoJane's site and leave a comment telling us what you would get with a $25 gift certificate.

We'll draw a winner randomly.

• USA only, please
• giveaway closes November 18th, 2009
• To earn extra entries, click here!

Cute Beltz Giveaway! - Ends November 16th

UPDATE: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! Winners: Becky, Abby Congratulations!

Cute Beltz - when you don't want your kid to moon the world!

About three weeks ago we gave a Cute Beltz sample to our mommy reviewer Katie, for her little girl to try out. One outstanding review later, here we are.

Cute Beltz make all sort of pants-holding-up devices for your kiddies - from velcro to d-ring belts, to little cute bags and gift sets...

Featuring cute little designs for the girls and smart ones for the boys, these are an awesome and inexpensive way to keep your kid's pants up!



Cute Beltz are giving away two belts!

First, the Fruit Splash Girls' D-Ring Belt:



and secondly, the Nautical Toddler Velcro Belt:





To enter, just go to Cute Beltz' site and tell us your favourite item! Also, tell us whether you would like to win the Fruit Splash Girls' D-Ring Belt or the Nautical Toddler Velcro Belt.

We'll randomly draw one winner for the girls' belt, and one winner for the toddler belt.

• Giveaway closes November 16th, 2009
• US only, please
• To earn extra entries, click here!

Shandle Giveaway - Ends November 15th!

UPDATE: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! Winners: Xenia, Sandra, Susan, Anna, Lisa, Congratulations!

We all know the benefits of hand washing, but I bet if we asked ten parents of potty-trained kids whether it's a tough ask to get their kids to do same, ten would raise their hands and nod dejectedly. Or at least, wearily.

Seat goes up...

And...yes! Seat goes down!

But Shandle's here with an interesting little device called...a Shandle, believe it or not. The Shandle is like a little lever which sticks to your toilet seat - it's strong enough to be used under the lid or the seat itself and functions a) as a hygenic way to lift the seat and b) to remind your little ones to wash their hands post-number one or number two.

With a squillion cute and appealing-to-kiddies designs which encourage kids to wash, you're covered when it comes to raising a Hygenic Harry. Or Clean Clarissa. Or Germ-free Gerry (I'll stop now).




And, because Shandle are such delightfully wonderful people, they're giving away five (yes, I said FIVE!!!) Shandles to YOU, BCE readers. Yes, five indeed.



To enter just leave a comment telling us which character on a Shandle, would have encouraged you to wash your hands. For example: if I (Mr Couch) as a kid, had seen a Chewbacca, He-Man or Voltron on a Shandle encouraging me to wash my hands, I'd have DONE IT!

We'll draw five winners randomly for this one.

Here are the details:

• Open to USA only
• Giveaway closes November 15th, 2009
• To earn extra entries, click here!