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The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools. We present publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards.

Abraham Lincoln Papers presents Lincoln's draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, his second inaugural address, an 1864 memo expressing his expectation of being defeated for re-election, and more than 70,000 other images and transcriptions of letters, speeches, and writings from the 1850s through his presidency

This is a shared writing lesson for creating a progressive story using a Google Doc.

Here are some questions you might ask when you are faced with the task of reading or writing about fiction.

This site helps you take a number in standard form and write it in scientific notation. Gives several examples.

A large collection of links to sites to promote critical thinking skills and problem-based learning. The site include activities such as WebQuests, I-Searches, scaffolds and graphic organizers, writing essential questions, and more.

Divided into ten 'chapters' which address themes or topics relevant to ancient Egypt. Includes life, geography, gods and goddesses, mummification, pharaohs, pyramids, temples, time, trades & writing.

A description of the characteristics of fiction writings.

Students can learn about & write diamante poems, which are diamond-shaped poems that use nouns, adjectives, and gerunds to describe either one central topic or two opposing topics.

A Resource page for digital storytelling. Students create a storyboard in which they write a story and provide pictures and/or video to illustrate their story. Students can use pre-made pictures that either they own or are listed as copyright free. They m

GlobalPost is embarking on a bold journey to redefine international news for the digital age. To get there, we are relying on the enduring values of great journalism: integrity, accuracy, independence and powerful storytelling. GlobalPost follows no political line. We encourage our correspondents to write with a strong voice and to work hard to unearth facts. But we leave opinion on the opinion pages.

When we teach math we are helping our students establish a framework for interpreting the world. One of the worst ways I know to help them establish that framework is to print an illustration of a real-world scene in a textbook, write in only the relevant measurements, and tell the students in the text of the problem which formula or strategy to apply. This leaves a student helpless and unprepared (in the mathematical, analytical sense) should she ever encounter the world that exists outside the pages of her textbook. So we instead bring digital media from the world into the classroom, simulations of the world as students experience it, artifacts which students can discuss and to which they can apply frameworks of their choice. In order to leave students capable and prepared for their encounters with the world, this media must be captured and presented very intentionally.

Great tool for creating digital postcards, embed video, images, and more! Writing has never been so fun!

Connect - We invite you to join or log in to our social network for youth voices, where students and teachers work together (see Curriculum and Guides) to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations. We hope that you will make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out. Comment - Be heard. This is a place for you to engage in discussions. To find something that you may want to comment on: * search with keywords in the search box * choose one of the New/Current Discussions * consider the Popular Discussions, the ones with the most comments * browse by Topics * find posts by members of your school or community groups We encourage you to spend a lot of time writing thoughtful comments back and forth on other students' Discussions. Create - Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio. You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions: * audio podcasts * text with embedded media * discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads

PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.

"The Quick Certificate Maker enables you to make a large range of certificates which print well at all sizes in colour or black inks. Use the yellow buttons to cycle through different border designs and images. The fonts button steps through different styles and sizes of font, some of the larger borders require smaller fonts to prevent overlaps. You can edit the writing that appears on the certificate by typing in the text boxes on the right, hit enter to start a new line."

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