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This site explains and show examples of different acrostic poems. Teachers and students can submit poems as well.

I was turned on to this site in my Elementary Ed program. I used this in my 6th and 8th grade classes as ice breakers and for groups. Knowing a students learning style can assist with many overlooked academic and discipline issues. One example, kids that looked bored in lecture classes really loved the hands on labs and vice versa. Trying to hit multiple learning styles helps reach more learners and increases the exposure to the learning goals.

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Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. The following are a few examples to show the versatility of Tagxedo, especially how tightly the words hug the shapes.

examples provide a clear idea of what the digital student thinks about plagiarism.

* User-Friendly Technology * Educational Benefits of Blogs * Using the Blog in the Classroom

* User-Friendly Technology * Educational Benefits of Blogs * Using the Blog in the Classroom

Using Blogs to Integrate Technology in the Classroom As the Internet becomes an increasingly pervasive and persistent influence in people's lives, the phenomenon of the blog stands out as a fine example of the way in which the Web enables individual participation in the marketplace of ideas.

Parent Benefits Positive parent-school communications benefit parents. The manner in which schools communicate and interact with parents affects the extent and quality of parents' home involvement with their children's learning. For example, schools that communicate bad news about student performance more often than recognizing students' excellence will discourage parent involvement by making parents feel they cannot effectively help their children.

This article is an example of the need for technology education.

In this lesson, students will explore the connection between reforestation and deforestation and greenhouse gases. They'll do this by collecting data about local trees and analyzing and interpreting data about deforestation and reforestation, which will serve as the example in this lesson of one set of activities that can affect levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Think of Netflix for Education video and you've got SAFARI Montage. With entire video libraries (All of Reading Rainbow and Bill Nye the Science Guy for example ) available locally at a school or centrally via the district, SAFARI Montage will allow you to create custom play lists, clips and lessons you can show your students with engaging and safe video materials.

I was waiting to post this one! It is such a great resource. I use it all the time and get a lot of my introductory to certain lesson videos here.

What it means to be literate has broadened to not only include traditional literacies, reading and writing print text for example, but also to reflect the needs of students living and learning in a digital world.

Assistive technology and and adaptive tools can help kids with learning and attention issues. Here are common ways assistive technology and adaptive tools can help with reading, writing and more.

Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework that guides curriculum redesign to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all students based on scientific insights into how humans learn. It provides strategies of implementation, as well as examples.