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The Teacher Book Wizard is the FREE ultimate children's book search engine. Drop the widget on your site to give it the power of Teacher Book Wizard search.

GREAT site for teaching library skill through primary sources

A glimpse at the opportunities and expectations for future workers.

The features on this Web site enable educational communities to: * Browse primary sources that teachers have used with students. * Teach primary source-based learning experiences from the Teaching Materials Collection. * Design learning experiences using MyPortfolio. * Share discoveries with others through field-testing and publishing. * Use our professional development programs to uncover the breadth and depth of LOC.gov resources. * Learn through primary source-based online activities and samples of student projects. * Create digital documentaries using University of Virginia's Primary Access or make a handout for students.

AdLit.org All about adolescent literacy, multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers

A different way to read great literature!

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This would be a great assignment. Have your students write a pargraph and put it through a translation tool and find the mistakes and correct them. You can see the process using google doc's revision history feature.

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports

Scott McLeod, Dangerously Irrelevant, sorts summer "reading" for us in two lists - this and the TED talks list.

Here are my top 10 2008 K12 Online Conference podcasts for busy principals and superintendents (in no particular order). These are the K12 Online presentations that I think are most likely to interest, educate, and entertain administrators as well as make them think!

If you're a Mac user, download and try this app. It reads pdfs, but it also allows you to add text boxes, highlight tet, etc, and all those changes are linked. Very nice for sharing pdfs with comments. And it's free!

Open Source pdf reader that allows you to leave comments on the document. For the Mac. Don't know if it's also for windows.

An Web page that guides students through identifying context clues and unknown words using an interactive game.

Online Educational Video Games for elementary level kids.

Educational games for elementary level kids, language arts

Grade- and topic-organized interactive resources that REALLY pop!! Check it out!!