EDTECH at Boise State University

Resource to assist in the research and exploration of colleges and information on different types of schools.

This is the website that accompanies the TCI social studies curriculum. Online lessons, student interactive journals, Powerpoint presentations, and teacher's guide are available.

A free online application that allows you to create mindmaps to share.

This is a website that allows students and teachers to create a graphic organizer for writing activities. When an account is created, the graphic organizer can be stored online to work with at a later time or at home.

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.

TodaysMeet is a backchanneling tool that allows for real-time audience feedback and participation via Twitter.

This a great website for educational movies. It is not blocked by security filters like You Tube is at most schools.

Rosetta Stone Shared Talk allows for real-time online chat with Spanish speakers from around the world.

Prezi is a next-generation presentation tool that allows you to create animated presentations on a virtual canvas.

Make Beliefs Comix allows you to easily create your own comic strip.

LiveMocha is a powerful online language learning community that allows you to interact with native speakers of many languages. It also provides a selection of free and paid language lessons.

DoInk allows you to easily create vector-based Flash-style animations.

This is a great website for all types of thematic units. There are full-length movies, movie clips, images, and lessons. This is a subscription service.

This is a great site for students to upload a picture of either themselves or a figure in history and record a voice over. Great for a biography or autobiography assignment.

Blabberize allows you to quickly create an animated character that speaks in your voice.

Great resource for students and teachers who are researching the Civil War. Information on battles, slavery, and soldiers. There are also links to official records which are interesting for the students to see.

Great website for Civil War Units. There are maps, battle statistics, weapons, people, and slavery. Easy for students to use. Well-maintained and accurate.

Great website for students and teachers to take notes on projects and daily work. Prevents misplacing the notes and difficulty in reading them because of messy handwriting.

Kid friendly search engine. There are fun things on the website for the kids to visit as well. These include music, games, movies, sports, and ecards. Easy for students to use.

A great searching tool for educators.  Educational websites are already prescreened and available for your age group.

This is a search engine that is a subscription service. It is monitored and updated by educators. Great resource for research projects.

"Censorship in the classroom: Understanding controversial issues\n\nhttp://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=203\n\nA lesson plan for grades 9-12 English Language Arts and Information Skills\nLearn more\n\n * Learn more about banned books, biases, censorship, language arts, media, persuasive writing, propaganda, reading, stereotypes, and writing.\n\nHelp\n\nPlease read our disclaimer for lesson plans.\nLegal\n\nPrint\n\n * Print\n\nShare\n\n * Email\n * Delicious Delicious\n * Digg Digg\n * Facebook Facebook\n * StumbleUpon StumbleUpon\n\nIt is important for young people to understand their individual rights and what they, as citizens, can do to protect these rights. In addition, young people need to understand the way in which bias and stereotyping are used by the media to influence popular opinion. In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine propaganda and media bias and explore a variety of banned and challenged books, researching the reasons these books have been censored. Following this research, students choose a side of the censorship issue and support their position through the development of an advertising campaign.\nNorth Carolina Curriculum Alignment\nEnglish Language Arts (2004)\nGrade 9\n\n * Goal 3: The learner will examine argumentation and develop informed opinions.\n o Objective 3.01: Study argument by:\n + examining relevant reasons and evidence.\n + noting the progression of ideas that substantiate the proposal.\n + analyzing style, tone, and use of language for a particular effect.\n + identifying and analyzing personal, social, historical, or cultural influences contexts, or biases.\n + identifying and analyzing rhetorical strategies that support proposals.\n\nGrade 10\n\n * Goal 3: The learner will defend argumentative positions on literary or nonliterary issues.\n o Objective 3.01: Examine controversial is