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"This white paper offers educators a vehicle to teach students more effectively, while addressing the Common Core State Standards using a blended learning model that combines face-to-face instruction with asynchronous work done online."

This site offers a White Paper regarding the use of a Collaborize Classroom site to address Common Core issues.

Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

"Vocaroo is a shiny new service for sending voice messages across the interwebs. "

Right now, only functioning from school computers on FHSD network. Guest network not currently configured to allow students access on their own devices; however, a ticket has been submitted.

Video Grabber is the best free online video grab app which helps you grab videos from YouTube, vimeo, dailymotion, break and other online video sites. By entering video URL address and click download, videograbber.net will automatically detect and find the real video file for you, you only need to save video to your PC. So that's the process: Copy Video URL, Paste URL, Download video, easy as 1, 2, and 3.

The easiest way to capture information and create useful documents.

Building a generation of webmakers Hackasaurus spreads skills, attitudes, and ethics that help youth thrive in a remixable digital world. By making it easy for youth to tinker and mess around with the building blocks that make up the web, Hackasaurus helps tweens move from digital consumers to active producers, seeing the web as something they can actively shape, remix and make better.

Join us in the quest for what works.  On this site, you can see the ways fellow teachers are solving problems, leave a comment, recommend an idea, share inventive things you've done, and take on meaningful professional learning challenges.  We want to visualize and applaud how teachers can help each other develop as Learners, Sharers, Collaborators, and Influencers.  Watch your credibility amongst your peers grow while helping to build this shared professional resource.

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Here are the features of Google Drive! Tracy

Looks like our Google Docs will soon be converted to Google Drive. Read about this new cloud storage option!

This article offers a collection of interactive activities that help kids become more connected to the texts they read.

"You've read the Hunger Games triology ... now what? We've gathered our picks of other dystopian novels -- books that imagine a not-so-rosy future under a menacing and oppressive regime, where teens and other folks must rely on their wits, courage, and strong friendships to survive. You can also check out our science-fiction, fantasy, and thiller recommendation lists to find even more choices for kids, tweens, and teens. "

For all of you that have kids excited by the Hunger Games trilogy, here is a great list of read-alikes! Tracy

EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.

"If you structure your class exactly the same way you have always done but employ it flipped," warns Richard Talyor, CMO for Echo360, "effectively what you have done is added an extra hour of class for every hour of class the student has."

17 Keyboard Shortcuts You Must Know

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