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Free online PDF to Word converter. It's real simple to use and doesn't require your email address or registration. You just upload your PDF document and when the conversion is complete, download your Word document.

Atomic Learning's Tech Skills Assessment helps you gauge technology skill levels, demonstrating skills can actually be applied. How is the Tech Skills Assessment unique? * Focused on how to use technology and how to apply it * Correlated to ISTE NETS-S 2007 standards * Easy identification of areas of greatest instructional need * Includes curriculum projects to target technology gaps * Comprehensive reporting system scalable to the needs of a district of any size * Can be completed in a single class period * Available with a subscription to the Technology Skills Collection

QuizEgg is essential for parents, teachers, professors, instructors and other educators. The online quiz maker let's you quickly and easily make sophisticated quizzes that can be completed by your students online. Quizzes are automatically graded for you, so there is no need to spend hours correcting them yourself. All the quiz results are analyzed and aggregated for you in easy-to-read reports.

Unique usage of javascript to help students brainstorm persuasive essay topics. Also has a thesis builder and outliner. Simple and works well. Not a complete guide to essay writing, but definitely helpful.

Explains the creative commons licenses.

Completely online flash-based videoconferencing site. Just setup a room, give someone else the easy url, and bam, you're videoconferencing. No software to install.

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Contains lots of information, music, movies, as well as an interactive crossword puzzle you could complete on the ActivBoard.

This site walks you step-by-step through simplifying an expression under a square root sign. Type your problem into the "math solver," and your answer, complete with a full description, is provided.

A complete math page created and maintained by an educator. Lots of tutorials, lessons, and more.

Students create a "Facebook" page for aspects of Dante's Inferno. Complete with templates, citation directions, examples, and rubric!

Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assigments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to "power down" at school...

The website offers a complete Educators Packet, which includes a biographical timeline of Poe's life and several fun and informative lessons plans for the classroom. To receive the packet, middle and high school teachers may use this link to fill out the request form and provide their school's address.

This Java-based tool will record a select region of your screen and any audio from your computer's microphone. It then hosts it for you, complete with download links so you or your users can download a local copy for offline viewing.

Can plagiarism-busting website TurnItIn.com archive complete student papers for use in its detection database? Four high school students claimed copyright infringement, but a federal appeals court says it's just fair use.

Students at SLA are assessed through a variety of means with a focus on project-based learning and our five core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection. Our students do not take the School District of Philadelphia benchmark exams; rather, they complete projects in every subject that are assessed based on the SLA rubric (see below). The descriptions in the empty boxes are filled in according to the subject and project nature. We are working with the School District of Philadelphia to ensure that grades from the SLA Benchmark projects will be entered into SchoolNet at the end of every marking period.

Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents. For Educators - Quick access to powerful writing lessons and assessments For Students - Step-by-step support for completing writing assignments For Parents - Tips for helping your child become a better writer, thinker, and learner

A complete medical animation library. Watch short videos on allergies, immunology, cancer, cardio, etc. on the ActivBoard.

This test is an outstanding resource for determining learning styles for differentiated instruction. After the test is completed, a color pie chart is printed to show learning styles.

Six online tutorials in argument mapping, a core requirement for advanced critical thinking. Each tutorial includes a number of exercises for the student to complete.

On these pages, you will find information about all aspects of tessellations, from their history and development to complete galleries of examples by David, Seth and the Master, M.C. Escher, the pioneer of the art. Also included are extensive workshops showing how to design and produce your own. All are accessible from the orange navigation bar or from the site index -see below.