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"A Quick Start Guide for Using YouTube's Editing Tools "

The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits is a neat series of interactive animations designed to help students of elementary and middle school age learn how electric circuits work. There are five sections to the series. Each sections builds upon the lessons of the previous section. The series starts with the basics of what makes a circuit complete and concludes with diagramming and building circuits. Each section in the series has a few short lessons and is followed by an animated interactive activity to which students can apply what they have just learned.

8th grade science

designed by the creators of Easy Bib, guides students as they evaluate online resources. After students indicate their desired address kof the site to be evaluated, Research Ready opens the site and asks the user a series of questions concerning purpose, accuracy, authority, relevance, and currency.  If a student needs support determining the answer to  a question, he or she can consult the help guide.  After writing a final review, students may email or print the results. Students can access the evaluator for free.

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From Marsha Fassold At a recent conference, I saw an interesting website called SideVibe. Basically, it allows you to create a "vibe" or window for asking questions and having discussions while using websites. This could help students stay on task better and guide them in using websites for lessons. Students do not need to have an email account to use it, which is especially great for us.

Creating a thoughtful acceptable use policy in the web 2.0 and Mobile Era without creating a "technology bubble" around kids. We are responsible to see that young people know how to use the tools of their culture in a responsible, safe, intelligent way.

We really need to advocate this!! We need a more permissive AUP.

The Global Bookshelf is a book search and recommendation engine. The purpose of The Global Bookshelf is to help people find travel stories. The books you'll find aren't travel guides, they're travel stories that could inspire you to visit a new place and experience a new culture. You can browse The Global Bookshelf by region, genre, and book format (Kindle, PDF, physical book). Students can add their book reviews to The Global Bookshelf. If you have students who have read some travel narratives, consider having them write a review to share on The Global Bookshelf. This is a great way to provide an authentic audience for your students' work. The Global Bookshelf is good place for your students to find books that they may enjoy reading. Maybe they'll read a story that sets them off to explore the world.

guide to punctuation marks and how to use them!

With a mix of vibrant images, visual annotation and text, the modules are designed by educators to engage students in information literacy and the research process. What constitutes credible information? How does source type contribute to relevance, authority and point of view? How do I evaluate and cite born-digital images and online sources? Over twenty full modules are available, addressing source and website evaluation, digital literacy skills, plagiarism prevention and ethical writing. There are three progressive levels to choose from (Starter, Junior and Advanced) for elementary through university students.

Apps & Web 2.0 tools for every level of New Bloom

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