Shmoop: Study Guides for Literature, US History, Poems, & Essays - Homework Help & Teac... - 0 views
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Ted Sakshaug on 11 Mar 09history and literature explained in an interesting way
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Common Core - Working to Bring Exciting, Comprehensive, Content-Rich Instruction to Eve... - 2 views
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We believe that a child who graduates from high school without an understanding of culture, the arts, history, literature, civics, and language has in fact been left behind. So to improve education in America, we're promoting programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences.
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Very heartening to see a growing movement advocating a knowledge-rich, intellectually rigorous curriculum for schools. They've got the funds to hire good photographers and models with nice skin, too.
The tags we're using - diigo - educators | Diigo Groups Forum - 0 views
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and the useful tags are: administrator all_teachers bestpractices edublogger grants curriculum history literature math science technology language edu_news edu_trends edu_newapp digitalcitizenship techintegrator professionaldevelopment edublog
Welcome to the William Blake Archive - 5 views
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The Andrew Blake (1757-1827) Archive in North Carlolina, USA, is "not a physical repository of Blake's collected works, nor is it a clearinghouse through which users can obtain reproductions of those works. [...]" It is "an online hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion of Blake's work.
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Useful for literature or modern history classes.
Welcome to CK-12 Foundation | CK-12 Foundation - 2 views
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Free textbooks in a variety of topics on CK-12. This is promoted as "learning made simple." Do students know how to find and download alternate sources of information? Can they find and search for the topics they are currently studying? This is a valuable way to compare and research topics.
The Independent Project - YouTube - 2 views
Education Week: District Leaders Get Dose of Teaching Common Core - 8 views
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Focus on close reading in Common Core. Many fear teachers are not prepared for this dramatic a shift where the textbook is the first, sole focus.
Introduction to social media - 13 views
The Historical Marker Database - 5 views
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a database of historical markers around the country. Add yours
Free Technology for Teachers: Check Out the Google Apps Training Center - 29 views
Seven Videos All Educators Should Watch - 32 views
10 ways to foster a love of learning… « What Ed Said - 19 views
Instructional Strategies Online - Explicit Teaching - 33 views
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There's a big push on at our school for explicit teaching; this guide provides a useful summary of the main instructional methods available to teachers.
Free Technology for Teachers: 131 Tips for New Teachers - 23 views
Educational Videos | Teacher Videos for Students | SnagLearning - 9 views
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High quality documentary films. Various grade levels and classes
Comparisons of Inaugural Addresses - 0 views
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In these visualizations, a given text-the "specimen"-is compared to some larger group of texts-the "normative" text-using the Dunning log likelihood statistical analysis, which gives weight to words in a text according to how their frequency of use in the specimen text differs from the norm. All visualizations feature a cloud that varies from gray to blue. In this cloud, the size of the word corresponds to the number of times the word was used in a given address. The word's color depends on how statistically unlikely the word is in the normative text; in other words, a blue word was used more in the given speech than in the others it is compared to.
Welcome to VisWiki! - 0 views
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Visual Wikipedia is now VisWiki.
eGyanKosh: Home - 0 views
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Gateway to eGyanKosh - a national digital repository of online resources of the Indira Gandhi National Open University in India.
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With a simple log-in, you can gain access to thousands of on-line resources, most in English.
Putting Technology in Its Place - Lesson Plans Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
