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Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: Find Easy to Read Text for Lower Levels - 14 views

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    "Twurdy is actually based on Google, but it analyses Google results for readability, so it can help you to find more lower level texts for learners without you having to read through every result from Google to see if it's simple enough. "
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    Twurdy is actually based on Google, but it analyses Google results for readability, so it can help you to find more lower level texts for learners without you having to read through every result from Google to see if it's simple enough.
Christy White

Create and share flashcards - ediscio.com - 7 views

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    Create flashcard that students can study. Make your own or use some that have been created.
Christy White

Yarp : Simple Invitations and Surveys - 2 views

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    Great for quick surveys. Can do invitations as well, but would be interesting to survey students.
Melissa Tredenick

Project LA Language Arts Activities - 10 views

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    Great collection of Language Arts grammar PowerPoints, worksheets, online activities, and games for grades 3-5
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    Great collection of Language Arts grammar PowerPoints, worksheets, online activities, and games for grades 3-5
Leslie Healey

Reading Literature, A Spiritual Practice - 0 views

  •  Do you want to get closer to God?  Settle down with a good book. McEntyre notes that, in the ancient practice of lectio di
  • It can change the way we listen to the most ordinary conversation. It can become a habit of mind. It can help us locate what is nourishing and helpful in any words that come our way—especially in what poet Matthew Arnold called “the best that has been thought and said”—and it can equip us with a personal repertoire of sentences, phrases, and single words that serve us as touchstones or talismans when we ne
  • “equipment for living
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    AMEN--you do not have to be a religious person to get this. Too often, I understand this idea, but forget to share it with my students. Reading as "equipment for living"
Dana Huff

Flash cards, vocabulary memorization, and study games | Quizlet - 6 views

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    My students told me about this site where they make study guides and flash cards for themselves. It's free, and it would be particularly good for studying information that you have to memorize.
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    Thanks to you - and your students - for the tip!
Caroline Bachmann

SearchStories Youtube Video Maker - 2 views

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    Create your own Google Search Story
Katie Dixon

Teachmeet victim selector - 7 views

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    Popsicle sticks 2.0
Tracee Orman

BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian - Free - 13 views

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    Automatic citation creator. Paste in the website, prompts for the authors first & last name, then creates a pasteable citation for you.
andrew bendelow

Digital Youth Network: Creating New Media Citizens through the Affinity Learning Model ... - 9 views

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    Composing online is not writing alone, as students have done. When he produces an artifact, the networked student creates a communal effort on the Internet.
aunt tammie

E-verything! - 16 views

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    jo hart website
C Reed

Achievethecore.org :: Home - 3 views

shared by C Reed on 22 Jul 14 - No Cached
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    Find, steal, and share free Common Core tools. For teachers, coaches, school and district leaders. Assembled by Student Achievement Partners.
Leslie Healey

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 18 views

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      on the other hand, I just tried to change the color of my highlighter, and redo a highlight that supported a different conclusion, and Diigo would not let me--I learned that on my iPad
  • no obvious shape or thickness.
  • "haptic dissonance"
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  • e screen-based reading is more physically and mentally taxing than reading on pape
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      this is the big problem for me
  • t scrolling
  • drains more mental resources than turning or clicking a page, which are simpler and more automatic gestures.
  • people reading on screens take a lot of shortcuts—they spend more time browsing, scanning and hunting for keywords compared with people reading on paper, and are more likely to read a document once, and only once.
  • When reading on screens, people seem less inclined
  • metacognitive learning regulation—strategies such as setting specific goals, rereading difficult sections and checking how much one has understood
  • Sellen has learned that many people do not feel much ownership of e-books because of their impermanence and intangibility: "They think of using an e-book, not owning an e-book," s
  • Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version.
  • Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?
  • Some Web comics and infographics turn scrolling into a strength rather than a weakness. S
  • e Scale of the Universe tool
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    paper vs screen in your brain
Dana Huff

The Readability Test Tool - 5 views

shared by Dana Huff on 17 Apr 13 - Cached
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    Test readability of a page by URL or direct text input. Includes Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, Coleman-Liau, and ARI.
Mrs. Dawson

Digital Writing Workshop - Troy Hicks - 15 views

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    Companion site for THE DIGITAL WRITING WORKSHOP and CRAFTING DIGITAL WRITING
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