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Bartleby.com
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For those needing literary, writing, or historical reference information, this site provides one-stop shopping. The site collects on-line versions of several dozen standard reference...more
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For those needing literary, writing, or historical reference information, this site provides one-stop shopping. The site collects on-line versions of several dozen standard reference works, and it also offers a search interface that can make short work of finding even the most obscure information.
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ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center - ERIC
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1 to 12
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The most recent version of the Educational Resources Information Center provides a single-point reference to the various ERIC resource databases and clearinghouses. This bibliographic...more
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The most recent version of the Educational Resources Information Center provides a single-point reference to the various ERIC resource databases and clearinghouses. This bibliographic information is intended for teachers, administrators, and researchers seeking education-related materials. This updated site contains links to the full-text of articles where available.
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Creative Dillard Quotations
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Reader's guides - Random House
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George Orwell - 1984 - Sparknotes
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6 to 12
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The Sparknotes presentation of plot summary and study concepts for Orwell's book. NOTE that Sparknotes are student-created. ...more
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The Sparknotes presentation of plot summary and study concepts for Orwell's book. NOTE that Sparknotes are student-created.
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NCTE and International Reading Association Standards for the English Language
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The National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association provide a list of 12 standards that offer guidance and resources to help students develop the language...more
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The National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association provide a list of 12 standards that offer guidance and resources to help students develop the language skills they need. Also included is a section entitled "Achieving High English Language Arts Standard: A Call to Join the Literacy Compact."
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Share these standards with students at the beginning of the year to provide them of some foresight of what's to come, and what they will have learned by the end of the year. Don't just entrust students to read these in a syllabi - introduce the site on the interactive whiteboard and explain each standard and how they will be accomplished, in detail.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Grammar Blue Book
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6 to 12
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While this site pulls no punches about promoting a book, it also offers concise grammar and punctuation usage information.In addition, there are short worksheets and quizzes which teachers...more
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While this site pulls no punches about promoting a book, it also offers concise grammar and punctuation usage information.In addition, there are short worksheets and quizzes which teachers might find useful with their classes.
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Try the quizzes as practice activities or include the site as a link on your teacher web page as review before major tests.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Teachers and Writers Online
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6 to 12
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A site created to build relationships between writers, teachers, and their students. This site offers a collection of project documents, instructions on how to become involved, and...more
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A site created to build relationships between writers, teachers, and their students. This site offers a collection of project documents, instructions on how to become involved, and background information on how the project evolved. Good resource for those interested in exposing students to "real" writers.
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Reader's Resources And Guides - Penguin Putnam
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1 to 12
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A comprehensive booklisting for educators. This site is great for any reader or anyone researching books. It gives you book listings separated by topic. You can access the book review,...more
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A comprehensive booklisting for educators. This site is great for any reader or anyone researching books. It gives you book listings separated by topic. You can access the book review, an extended lesson plans for before the book reading, during, and after. You can also get bibliographies, suggested and related title lists, and a guide about the author. It would be a must visit for anyone. Great resources and guides!!
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Twitter Chat: Fix Frustration with Differentiation! - TeachersFirst
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K to 12
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This archived Twitter chat is from September 2022 and will open in Wakelet. The title of this chat is: Fix Frustration with Differentiation!. During this chat, participants: 1. Defined...more
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This archived Twitter chat is from September 2022 and will open in Wakelet. The title of this chat is: Fix Frustration with Differentiation!. During this chat, participants: 1. Defined and discussed differentiated instruction, 2. Explored tools and resources for differentiating instruction in the classroom, and 3. Shared ways to differentiate instruction for students in all learning environments.
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Colors - Canva
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K to 12
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Do you need help finding and selecting colors for digital projects? Canva's Colors includes resources to learn about color and find the perfect palette for any design. Upload a photo...more
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Do you need help finding and selecting colors for digital projects? Canva's Colors includes resources to learn about color and find the perfect palette for any design. Upload a photo to the Color palette generator to view four selected colors that coordinate with the image. The generated colors include both the color name and the color code. If you are looking for ideas, try the Color palettes. Browse through the color palettes or explore by typing a theme, color, or keyword to find suggested palettes. Learn about color theory and color combinations by exploring the Color wheel. Take an in-depth look at colors in the Color Meaning portion of the site. Choose any color to learn more about the color space and conversions in different formats.
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Colors is an excellent resource to have handy for many different digital, and graphic design uses. Share this site with students to use as a resource for selecting colors within PowerPoint or Google Slide presentations. Use the suggestions when creating infographics, flyers, or other designs within Canva for Education, reviewed here. Share Colors with your school's art teacher to use when teaching students about the color wheel and digital design.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Web Whiteboard - Henrik Kniberg
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K to 12
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Web Whiteboard is a free, collaborative, online whiteboard that doesn't require registration. All collaboration takes place in real-time, so there is no need to save work as you use...more
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Web Whiteboard is a free, collaborative, online whiteboard that doesn't require registration. All collaboration takes place in real-time, so there is no need to save work as you use the whiteboard. Just click the link to begin using the whiteboard tools. Share the URL with collaborators. Web Whiteboard also includes a direct link to create a whiteboard using Google Hangouts. Boards remain available for 21 days when using the free account. For more information, be sure to watch the one-minute demo for an overview of how to use this tool.
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Allow students to create collaborative drawings as responses to literature. They can map out the plot or themes, add labels, create character studies, and more. Share the finished products on an interactive whiteboard, projector, or your class website. Have a group of students create a drawing that another group can use as a writing prompt. Use Web Whiteboard as a brainstorming or sketching space as groups or the class share ideas for a major project or to solve a real world problem. Use this site with students in a computer lab (or on laptops) to create a drawing of the setting in a story as it is read aloud. As a creative assessment idea, have students draw out a simple cartoon with stick figures to explain a more complex process such as how a democracy works. If you are lucky enough to teach in a BYOT setting, use Web Whiteboard to demonstrate and illustrate any concept while students use the chat and drawing tools to interact in real time. If you are studying weather, have students diagram the layers of the atmosphere and what happens during a thunderstorm, for example. Introduce this tool to students who are working on group projects. Alternatively, have students use this to work as partners or as a small team to complete complex math problems or equations. Give students a problem by typing it on their board. Then have them work through it together, noting all of their reasoning and steps of work along the way.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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YiNote - turbonote.co
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6 to 12
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YiNote is a Chrome browser extension allowing users to take notes while watching online videos. After installing the extension, click the icon in your browser bar while viewing any...more
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YiNote is a Chrome browser extension allowing users to take notes while watching online videos. After installing the extension, click the icon in your browser bar while viewing any video to bring up a box for adding notes. YiNote adds a time stamp to match the place in the video of saved notes. Return at anytime and click on your notes to go directly to that point in the video. One-click sharing allows the option to share notes via a direct URL or through links to social networking sites.
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After installing the YiNote extension, add notes to any online video then share with students for viewing as part of your flipped classroom lessons. Use with videos that may be too long otherwise; have students go directly to relevant portions of videos and view with your guidance supplied in the note portion. Include a note for any video you ask students to watch, then have them share their answers in an online bulletin board creator, such as Padlet, reviewed here. Or flip your classroom and have students watch the video at home and ask questions or make comments using YiNote.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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EduMatch - Sarah Thomas
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K to 12
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Use the power of social media to connect with educators around the world with similar interests with EduMatch. Sign up to be the #edtech Person of the Day and enroll ...more
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Use the power of social media to connect with educators around the world with similar interests with EduMatch. Sign up to be the #edtech Person of the Day and enroll in EduMatch. EduMatch also provides podcasts with discussions on educational issues. Access previous podcast archives or view the calendar for upcoming sessions. Previous topics include issues such as encouraging colleagues to take risks with technology and educator perspectives on grading policies.
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EduMatch is an excellent resource for professional development sessions. Search the site to find topics of interest and listen to the session together as a staff to begin your discussions. Follow EduMatch users on X (formerly Twitter) to include as part of your PLN.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) - The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
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ISTE provides a home base and resources for passionate educators, leaders, and experts who are committed to expanding the horizons of education technology. ISTE's YouTube Channel provides...more
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ISTE provides a home base and resources for passionate educators, leaders, and experts who are committed to expanding the horizons of education technology. ISTE's YouTube Channel provides useful and engaging educational resources for tech integration in lessons. Take advantage of these videos to view ISTE conference keynote speakers and learn how to incorporate technology into your classroom through best practices. Topics range from 30 Things You Didn't Know Google Could Do!, Cultivating Digital Age Instructional Leaders, and the Flipped Classroom. If your district blocks YouTube, then they may not be viewable.
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Share with peers for use in planning and professional development sessions. Bookmark and subscribe to ISTE's YouTube channel as a resource for staying current in the latest digital trends in teaching. Use videos during professional development sessions with peers to learn how to incorporate technology into your classrooms. Model how to incorporate digital resources during professional development sessions with peers using information learned from this site. Motivate teachers to become more tech-savvy by finding out what interests them, or what they need to learn more about using Dotstorming, < a href="/single.cfm?id=16997">reviewed here. Dotstorming is a online polling system that also includes a chat box for users add comments. Use Screencast-o-matic, < a href="/single.cfm?id=9564">reviewed here to demonstrate how to use specific technology tools for interested teachers. Use Screencast-o-matic to make a video recording of your computer screen demonstrating different features and implementation of online tools. Make it easy for peers to find all of your screen recordings by uploading them to Padlet, reviewed here. Of course, by sharing them to Padlet you also introduce a new tech tool for them to try! Instead of a one-time professional development session, consider creating an ongoing podcast using Buzzsprout, reviewed here to share new technology tools, provide advice and tips, and answer common questions. The ISTE YouTube channel provides a great starting point for learning and sharing tech tips with peers.
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Unsplash - Ooomf.com
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4 to 12
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Unsplash offers breathtaking, high resolution imagery free for any use through a Creative Commons Zero license. Scroll through images to view options and download. No registration required;...more
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Unsplash offers breathtaking, high resolution imagery free for any use through a Creative Commons Zero license. Scroll through images to view options and download. No registration required; however, creating an account allows you to curate collections of images.
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Use images from Unsplash as creative writing prompts. Have students create a multimedia presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint Online, reviewed here, uploading the image they choose and narrating it. Challenge students to find a photo (legally permitted to be reproduced), and then narrate the photo as if it is a news report. Allow students to browse through Unsplash when locating images for multimedia projects and curate collections for all to use.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Purpose Games - Purpose Games
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Purpose Games is an exceptional resource for educationally specific activities. Practice learning anything from the bones of the human skeleton to the countries of Europe. Want something...more
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Purpose Games is an exceptional resource for educationally specific activities. Practice learning anything from the bones of the human skeleton to the countries of Europe. Want something even more tailored to your needs? Register with your email and create your own game with learning goals that are designed by you. Some of the activities have comments. You may want to preview the comments, if sharing with the class. This site has many advertisements.
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Search for interactives that are relevant to your subject. Share the website of the particular challenge you want students to play on your website or wiki. Be sure to check if the site is allowed as some districts filter game-type tools. Ask for permission for this educational site and then share with your students. Create an activity for test review or just for practice of essential content of your course. Have your students take material they are learning about and make their own interactive challenge.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
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Lulu - Self Publishing - Bob Young
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7 to 12
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At Lulu you or your students can write (sell) and publish your Ebook. Older students can publish their poems, short stories, current event articles, persuasive writing for an issue...more
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At Lulu you or your students can write (sell) and publish your Ebook. Older students can publish their poems, short stories, current event articles, persuasive writing for an issue they are into... for free with the Ebook format. Consider having your students write novels for National Novel Writing Month, and at Lulu they will be able to publish them. Lulu offers a simple, publishing process with just a few steps: Register, start the publishing wizard, upload your file, design your cover, complete your cover; set your and publish. Once you have registered, you'll receive a welcome letter. Only the Ebook is free, all other formats have a price. This review is for the Ebook only.
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Use Lulu to create a class book of short stories or poems. Since the books have to be sold to view, you could use this as a class or school fund raiser. Parents could buy the books as gifts for grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc.Older students can write novels for National Novel Writing Month, and at Lulu they will be able to publish them.
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Internet for Classrooms - Internet4Classrooms, LLC
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Internet4classrooms is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas,...more
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Internet4classrooms is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home. Information is organized by grade level, or subject area. Web 2.0 tutorials include links for information on: apps for iPod, iTouch, blogs, audio/pod casting, collaboration, graphic organizers, file converters, html editors, open source, organization tools, PLN tools, presentation tools, social bookmarking, survey makers, web browsers, video/photo, Wiki, and Word Cloud Generators. Links for Assessment Assistance give extra ways to assess in a fun technological twist. A daily dose section offers quotes, brain teasers, question of the day, and intersecting trivia. Join an RSS feed to get the latest updated information. Up to date, active links are reviewed continually. At the time of this review the Interactive Test Resource for 7th grade assessment had several broken links.
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Keep this bookmarked for a variety of ideas to update your curriculum continually to keep it fresh and intriguing. The technology tutorials can teach old dogs new tricks, or also help young dogs find new tricks. Allow your students to choose from a variety of project ideas for their highest level of motivation. Add as a resource on your web site for fun sites for your students to explore. Use many tools given in tutorials to make your presentations sizzle, for students, teachers, or other audiences. Challenge gifted students with brainteasers, puzzles, accelerated curriculum, or ACT/SAT prep.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lightbox - Time
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Explore cutting-edge technology and video from the photo editors of Time with a daily blog from Lightbox. Time Lightbox features photos and videos of current events, behind the scenes,...more
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Explore cutting-edge technology and video from the photo editors of Time with a daily blog from Lightbox. Time Lightbox features photos and videos of current events, behind the scenes, new exhibits, books, and technology. Take another critical view of current events with photos never released or ways never portrayed. This daily, behind the scenes look, lets you know what is happening on the front lines, through photojournalism with portraits, faces, and events that are changing our history. The images give you a mix into the artistic world of photojournalism with a closer look at our world.
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Lightbox offers applications into many subject areas in the classroom. In social studies, world histories, or current events look closer at the portrayal of current events. Use this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Analyze the viewpoint given by the media and compare to the behind the scenes look at Lightbox. What are the stories, experiences, and effects behind the news? How does history change the lives of people? Discover multiple viewpoints that might come to life from these riveting images. Follow current events and bring them to a personal level for students. In Art classes, dive into the art of photojournalism with composition, style, space, and elements of design. Bring to life a study of current photographers portraying messages in unique manners. In Language Arts class, determine characterization, story, or details discovered in each image. Challenge students to link to one of the photos, and then narrate the photo as if it were a news report using PowerPoint Online, reviewed here. Create audio recordings AND choose a location (on a map) where the story takes place with Zeemaps, reviewed here. Use images as ready-made writing prompts for current events or writing classes. Develop multiple points of view into well-known events to share, debate, and discover how people are affected. Lightbox will make any blog become dazzling and poignant. Keep students active, reflective, and involved in current events in an intriguing, visual way. ELL/ESL learners will benefit from the extra information shown in each photograph. Challenge gifted learners to analyze and synthesize current events in ways that they have yet to discover! Remember that these images are copyrighted, so the best way to display them on a blog or other web project is as a LINKED image. COPY the direct image URL by RIGHT-clicking on the image itself and choosing "copy image location" on a Mac or "Properties" on a windows computer. Most web tools allow you to insert images by URL, so you can paste the URL to make it display on your blog, wiki, PowerPoint, Glog, etc.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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