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103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading By: Jim Burke This article offers a collection of interactive activities that help kids become more involved in the stories that they read.

Evernote. I know, you must be getting tired of me writing about Evernote. I can't help it. It is an incredibly useful, easy to use, and once you start you have no idea how you lived without it, free resource that I use for literally everything. Evernote has apps for mobile devices, desktop software, and you can access your notes through any web browser.

Free flipped learning tool to transform video content into an active learning experience for students through time-embedded formative assessments. Monitoring system helps you answer key questions in a flipped environment such as "Did my students watch the video?" and "What learning objectives did my students struggle with?". A few examples of eduCanon lessons: English as a foreign language (from a music video): goo.gl/Mwgjg1 Biology (from powtoons): goo.gl/fUDEkH Elementary math (from Khan Academy): goo.gl/GYaucZ

Have you ever wanted to create short "how to" video for your students to use for homework, remembering facts, and solving math problems. How often have your students stated, "I could not complete the homework assignment, because I could not remember the steps and no one could help me."

Check out these sites to enrich your senses and your mathematical skills! I have placed sites to help children of all ages, from grades K-12. Enjoy!!

AAA math, lots of online help for students.

Don't know how to work Microsoft Excel? This is the page for you! Students in ISB middle school have been making tutorials of widely used programs. They have worked a lot to help people around them have a better understanding of technology. On this page you will find how to make bar graphs, math equations, pie charts... This page will come in handy, because Excel, when you learn to use it, is a quick and speedy way to do homework, projects, and lessons.

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"About this Project Into the Book is a multimedia package designed to improve students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. Based on current research, the project focuses on eight learning strategies: * Using prior knowledge * Making connections * Questioning * Visualizing * Inferring * Summarizing * Evaluating * Synthesizing"

"Teaching children which thinking strategies are used by proficient readers and helping them use those strategies independently creates the core of teaching reading. If proficient readers routinely use certain thinking strategies, those are the strategies children must be taught. For the kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade reading curriculum to focus primarily on those strategies, we need a new instructional paradigm: Our daily work with children must look dramatically different from the approaches in wide use in our schools today."

The purpose of this PDF is to help schools looking at adopting Web Based Portfolios (WBP) as a form of assessment with students over a period of time. By adopting a web-based platform as a container in which to house portfolio content, schools give students a web-based vehicle with endless possibilities to create, collaborate and communicate their learning to the world.

This page has been set up to help you make connections with classes in other countries who are interesting in having Skype conversations with other classes. You can contact each person by clicking on their name or using the information they've shared.

A Ning to help you get the most out of storybird. The Storybird Ning is a place for teachers to get together and share ideas and information on using Storybird.com effectively in the class.

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You can increase your productivity and work easily in Google SketchUp 7 when you remember these handy reminders for the best way to carry out tasks and apply some keyboard shortcuts. Read more: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/google-sketchup-7-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html#ixzz0retbK4uD

Kindersay is a free online video website designed to help preschool kids & English as Second Language (ESL) children learn English words. Over 500 online activities are available in a special Word Show format.

Only one month into the new school year and almost every middle school student has their own blog hosted at ISB (plus all of our grade 5s, and quite a few high school students)! Thanks to our fantastic middle school Humanities and Modern Language teachers, who spent their class time helping students create their own blog, we are off and running in record time!

"VoIP, or voice over IP, can save you a lot of money. Services like Skype offer free calls overseas to other computers and really cheap rates to overseas phones. That's all well and good, but frequently using such services results in complaints on the other end about poor VoIP audio quality. If you find yourself in this situation, don't panic: in all likelihood this is a problem you can solve easily. You just need to tweak your home network, and your computer, to use VoIP to its fullest potential."

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