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A terrific list of teacher instructional strategies

Each week HNN features up to a dozen fresh op eds by prominent historians. Our archives, extending over the past decade, include thousands of well-researched pieces.

SMARTboard Interactice activities for ages 4-11

Hundreds of free practice tests from ACT to LSAT available in 95 subjects, plus flashcards and question of the day.

The easiest way to create a WebQuest with more than 248.3 thousand users. It is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes.

Crop a video. Add your voice to it. Embed student quiz questions. Record their answers.

The Department's Center for Best Practice, supported by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, was established to focus on research and reporting related to proficiency-based systems here in Maine. It will serve as a clearinghouse of materials, support and case studies related to learner-centered instructional practices.

Reinforce your students' understanding of figurative language with VocabularySpellingCity's figurative language lessons, interactive games, printable worksheets, and powerpoint presentations.

Films For Action uses the power of film to raise awareness of important social, environmental, and media-related issues not covered by the mainstream news. Their goal is to provide citizens with the information and perspectives essential to creating a more just, sustainable, and democratic society. Their website has cataloged over 1500 of the best films and videos that can be watched free online.

Closing the Gap gives educators the resources they need to turn data into action to strengthen instructional practices.

ReadWorks provides over 1,400 K-8 non-fiction and literary reading passages, each with a research-based question set to support student comprehension.

Students fire off ideas for using digital tools to teach scientific and mathematical concepts.

Students fire off ideas for using digital tools to teach history and current events.

Students fire off ideas for using digital tools to learn language and literature.

The Smarter Balanced Practice Test is available to schools and districts for practice and training purposes, professional development activities, and for discussions with parents, policymakers, and other interested stakeholders.

Fotobabble provides an easy way to take an image (hopefully, one the student or teacher has taken themselves...) and then voice-over a description, explanation, analysis, compare and contrast or just about any level of Blooms Taxonomy one would want.

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Audioboo is a tool for audio producers to record, upload and share audio. We believe in the power of the spoken word to inspire, inform and connect people across the globe. We also believe in giving everyone the opportunity to air and share, from international broadcasters to individual audio micro bloggers. A boo is made up of any clip of audio, a picture, a location, a title and a description. 

Instant screencasts: Just click record your screen and voice program tutorial.

Taking it to the streets and correcting America, one comma at a time.