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Every year, in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book, River of Words sponsors a free international poetry and art contest on the theme of watersheds.

NWP teacher-leaders study and share effective practices that enhance student writing and learning, work collaboratively with other educators, design resources, and take on new roles in effecting positive change.

Kid Friendly Common Core State Standards.

Edmodo can be incorporated into classrooms through a variety of applications including Reading, Assignments, Collaboration. Current uses include posting assignments, creating polls for student responses, embedding video clips, and simply a venue for students and teachers to exchange messages on when to meet up at each others houses for "learning"

Edutopia is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators implement critically thinking, access and analyze information, creatively problem solve, work collaboratively, and communicate with clarity and impact.

Learn360 is an interactive media-on-demand service for the K-12 education market, for teachers and students. Through streaming video, audio and accompanying support materials, Learn360 supports web-based learning by providing an online collaborative environment where users can share information and ideas. Content is correlated to State, Common Core and Provincial standards, as well as 21st century learning initiatives, and can be further adapted to meet the demands of local school districts and individual teacher curricula.

TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage discussion to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.

Xtranormal makes your stories come to life. Create a story. Share a story. Watch a story. Xtranormal helps you create amazing interactive stories with a few clicks and a little imagination. You're instantly an animator, poet, pundit, educator or comic.

Animoto is a web application that produces videos from photos, video clips and music. Animoto analyzes the provided photos, video clips and music to generate a video similar to a trailer.

Introduce technology in a fun way and motivate students to improve comprehension. Utilize Voki as an effective language tool to develop speaking, listening, and writing.

Think Netflix but with books.

The Mission Statement: The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge. The Foundation pursues its vision by building a digital library of outstanding children's books from around the world and supporting communities of children and adults in exploring and using this literature through innovative technology designed in close partnership with children for children.

A great website that rates media and helps parents and teachers know if books, movies, games etc. are age appropriate.

A great way to teach non-fiction to younger students.

An HBO documentary with a positive and uplifting message about dyslexia

An interesting website with resources for teachers, students and parents who have or work with students with dyslexia

An organization of teachers, parents, educators and students that host excellent professional development conferences.

An easy graphic organizer program to use with students of all ages!

Choose from pre-made cards or make your own. This site is great for sight words and vocabulary.

by Saul McLeod published 2010, updated 2012 The zone of proximal development (ZPD) has been defined as " the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers" (Vygotsky, 1978, p86).