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A comical blog post on YA Fiction.

Various information and activities about American Veterans

Both in my public library and school experiences I have used lists of books that help encourage boys to read.

focuses on text complexity and the CCSS

Qualitative and Quantitative complexity measures

Curiyo is a browser extension, available for Firefox and Chrome, that makes it easy to quickly find definitions, videos, pictures, and related reference materials for any word you select in your browser. When you're reading an article online and come across a word that you don't recognize or a word that you're just curious about, long-click on it and a pop-up box containing definitions, pictures, videos, and more will appear.

Presented at 12/10/13 LMS academy

"Millions of people use Flipboard to read and collect the news they care about, curating their favorite stories into their own magazines on any topic imaginable."

Google added a new Google Scholar option that can help students organize their research. You can now create libraries of articles that you find through Google Scholar. To create a Google Scholar Library sign into your Google account before searching on Scholar.Google.com then just click "save" when you find an article you want save for future reference. Your saved items appear in your Google Scholar Library where you can apply labels to them and sort them.

Many of these tools lend themselves to teaching multiple content areas. Be creative and imagine what learning engines they may become! From Kevin Honeycutt

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, documentarian Ken Burns, along with numerous partners, has launched a national effort to encourage everyone in America to video record themselves reading or reciting the speech.The collection of recordings housed on this site will continue to grow as more and more people are inspired by the power of history and take the challenge to LEARN THE ADDRESS.