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In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries.

EdSurge has categorized about 1500 products so far, using 5 main categories (Curriculum Products,Teacher Needs,School Operations,Post Secondary, and "Everything Else") and dozens of subcategories to provide an easy to use interface to learn about "ed tech" tools and services. The structure behind EdTech Index makes it easy for educators to learn about products in a just a couple of clicks.

You add any audio file. Compatible file types: aac aif aiff alac flac m4a m4p mp2 mp3 mp4 ogg raw spx wav wma. We tag, index & transcribe it automatically. Your sound, in one place, searchable to the second.

Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

vozMe: From text to speech (speech synthesis). online tool that offers applications and services to convert text into speech. vozMe uses speech synthesis systems and technology to provide voice resources to any website or add speech synthesis to any web browser.

Phrasr is a project by Pimpampum.net based on Flickr images * Do you like it? DONATE to improve it! :) * This product uses the Flickr API but is not endorsed or certified by Flickr * About *

NPR Special Series May 20, 2012 ... Three-Minute Fiction: Round Eight Stories. For Round 8 of our contest ... post some of our favorites here. Three-Minute Fiction. ... http://www.npr.org/series/149740625/three-minute-fiction-round-8-stories All Things Considered May 20, 2012 ... Three-Minute Fiction: The Round 8 Winner Is... by NPR Staff. May 20, 2012. ...

U.S. and world news all geared toward students in elementary and middle school. Great for current events. Also includes a daily discussion and newsquiz and provides access to archives.

We have devised an interactive curriculum aimed to support teachers of secondary students (approximately ages 13-17). The curriculum helps educate students on topics like: YouTube's policies How to report content on YouTube How to protect their privacy online How to be responsible YouTube community members How to be responsible digital citizens We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity.

Abby's video about peer to peer collaboration

Oh well, we can keep dreaming and drooling, right??

Great QR reader-picks them up right away on a webcam on a laptop.

suggested by Kristy Yeager 2/28/12

a wealth of projects to make and each activity is clearly laid out with step by step reproducible pdf instructions, a concept map exploring needed materials, cultural connections, concepts/phenomenons, big ideals, and real-life examples. Also includes variations on the activity and science websites.

service offering free online booklet creation and publishing. To create a book using Simple Booklet just sign-up for a free account and click create. Select the layout template that suits your needs. To add content click anywhere on the blank canvas and a menu of options will appear. You can add text, images, audio files, videos, and links to each page of your booklet. In the field for adding text there is an option to copy from Word documents. Each page of your Simple Booklet can have multiple elements on it. To include videos you can upload your own files or select from a variety of provides including SchoolTube, TeacherTube, YouTube, and others. To add audio to your pages you can upload your own files or again select from the online hosts Last.fm, Sound Cloud, or Mix Cloud. When you're done building pages in your Simple Booklet you can share it online by embedding it into a webpage or you can share the unique link generated for your booklet.

Squishy Circuits is a project developed at the University of St. Thomas for the purpose of creating tools that students can use to create circuits and explore electronics. Squishy Circuits uses Playdough-like to enable hands-on learning about conducting and insulating currents as well as creating circuits. The Squishy Circuits website provides directions for creating the dough and offers ideas for lessons using the dough. Watch this TED Talk for an explanation and demonstration of Squishy Circuits.

8th grade science

Hook 'em with graphic novels! There HAS to be a project idea here! Superheroes & their chemical foes & foibles?!

8th grade science