Technology-Information Highway

03/12/2010: Picture of the Day: This is a GPS Tracker
Enjoy the images of GPS Trackers on sleds. Click the picture to view a larger image.
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03/12/2010: GPS Trackers Help Race Fans Follow the Mushers
On the Sunday of Start Day, March 7, 2010, at Willow, GPS Trackers were placed on each musher’s sled.
GPS Trackers make it possible for race fans to follow the mushers more closely by viewing their journey along the Iditarod…
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03/12/2010: What Do GPS Trackers Do When Not on a Sled?
These GPS Trackers are sitting outside the Millennium Hotel (Race Headquarters) while the Ion Earth team tests them so that they can be sent back out on the trail to replace a tracker that is not working.
Each musher’s sled…
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02/11/2010: Can’t go to Alaska? Join us Via Internet!
The Iditarod Winter Teacher’s Conference will be held March 2 – 5 in Anchorage, Alaska. This year, we’ll be providing our teachers and classrooms around the world ways to ‘join us’ for parts of our teacher conference events. We’ll have…
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11/22/2009: The Iditarod, Web2.0 Tools & Your Students
By Educational Journalist, Nancy Carroll, 4th Grade Teacher, MA
Are your students already talking about the Iditarod? Sled dogs? Mushers? Alaska? Engage your students in their learning by creating, analyzing and synthesizing different aspects of the Iditarod while using sites…
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05/11/2009: One Quilt: California and Off to Nome!
Del Sur Senior Elementary, February, 2009, Lancaster, CA
Receiving the quilt was another opportunity for my 7th graders to connect technology to the world around us. As soon as we opened the box, the students gathered around to discover the…
Filed under Art, Music, FACS, Indust Arts, Language Arts, Technology-Information Highway, Traveling Quilt Journal

03/10/2009: Meet Sheryl Cater: Idita- Learn Minnesota Style
Sheryl Cater, Eden Lake School, Eden Praire, Minnesota attended the 2005 Iditarod Summer Camp. Since then Sheryl has continued an Iditarod Journey of Learning through the projects at her school and her journey along the Iditarod Trail.
Sheryl was a…
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01/31/2009: Get Students Reading and Writing with Zuma
Zuma’s Paw Prints
Have you wondered what it is like out on the Iditarod Trail? Are you looking for pictures taken at the checkpoints? What do mushers do during the race? What do volunteers do? What is a snow hook? …
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10/04/2008: Web Cameras
These are not owned or operated by Iditarod. You will be leaving Iditarod’s website to view the webcams. Iditarod is not responsible for content.
Alaska Cam (Downtown Anchorage, 4th and D)
Bear Cam at the Alaska Zoo
Nome Camera: View…
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09/17/2008: Students Sing Hobo Jim’s Iditarod Trail Song
Follow the link to Teacher Tube to listen to a great Idita- Tune sung by Deb Shaller’s students.
CLICK HERE!
Hey Hobo Jim! This class would enjoy singing on stage with you sometime!
Filed under Art, Music, FACS, Indust Arts, News and Information, People, Places, or Dogs, Student Work Samples, Technology-Information Highway

09/16/2008: Zuma’s Paw Prints: Blog and Collaboration Zone
Zuma’s Paw Prints — A literacy blog! Ready articles written by our K-9 reporters. Learn about all aspects of the race.Zuma’s Paw Prints is a ‘blog style’ environment for students of all ages to read. Three K-9 reporters, Gypsy, Libby,…
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03/09/2008: Idita Learn: Minnesota Project
Connecting Alaska to the World
by Diane Johnson
Educators Sheryl Cater and John Clay, from Eden Prairie, MN, attended the start of the Iditarod as part of their 2008 Iditarod school projects as part of Iditarod’s Educational Journalist project. John…
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