Instructional Technology Specialist

March is an exciting month in Alaska.  Children across the country and around the world will be following the famous dog sled race, the Iditarod.  Here are some websites to help classroom teachers integrate the Iditarod into their curriculum.

http://www.iditarod.com/

List of mushers and links to their websites to track them:
http://www.iditarod.com/race/musherlisting.html

http://backstage-iditarod.blogspot.com/

Collaborative Classroom Project:
http://iditarod-collaborative-project.wikispaces.com/

Website Suggestions and Classroom Project
https://motivatewithmushers.wikispaces.com/RESOURCES

Up to date information blogged:
http://www.iditablog.com/

http://www.kigluaitadventures.com/virtualmushing

http://www.idita-read.org/

http://questgarden.com/54/75/3/080119190853/

http://www.workingdogweb.com/Iditarod.htm

http://dwb.adn.com/iditarod//

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Courses/EDTEC670/Cardboard/Board/M/mushtheiditarodgame/mush.htm

http://mushing.bssd.org/

PIctures and narrative along the trail of 2008 Iditarod
http://www.buserdog.com/

http://www.iditarod.com/teachers/lessons.html

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod/

http://alaskacam.com/

http://www.education-world.com/a_special/march.shtml Scroll to the bottom of the page

http://surfaquarium.com/eIditarod/ Registration Required

http://www.ultimateiditarod.com/teachers.htm

http://www.dogsled.com/

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7728 List of books on the Iditarod

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/iditarod/index.htm

You can follow the Iditarod on Twitter.  http://twitter.com/iditarod
Twitter is a microblogging environment where you can get short updates throughout the day.  You have to register but it is free.  There is a desktop application that allows your updates to show up automatically.  It is called twirl http://www.twhirl.org/.  Feel free to follow me on twitter as well.  My twitter name is @lsadler.

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