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6th and 7th grade free math worksheets and quizzes on roman numerals measurements, percent caluclations, algebra, pre algebra, Geometry, Square root. This is a math website that can be used for middle school. It has worksheets and games that can be incorporated into the classroom.

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Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology. I chose this resource for chapter 8 because on this website you can browse educational resources by subject, grade level and skill. It then provides a list of tools, apps, websites and portfolios that meet the specific criteria searched. This site is helpful when searching for generic educational resources

Are you looking for standards-aligned electronic learning resources to help your students? Here, you can find free Educational Resources, reviews of Online Courses, and commercial Electronic Learning Resources. I chose this resource for chapter 8 because on this site you can browse resources by subject area and grade level and read summaries and reviews by educators. This website is helpful when finding and evaluating software applications for a classroom.

This is a direct link to create a custom search engine through Google.

A site that teachers can use to make custom search engines for their classrooms.  These search engines can be as broad or specific as the teacher chooses. The tutorial video is very helpful to get you started!

Blogger is a website where you can create your own blog. It is a great way for teachers to create their own teacher blog

Blogging website built specifically for teachers. Teachers can create newsletters for parents and blogs for students specifically!

Edublogs is a free blogging network that lets students view posts by their teachers. It gives access to email, media, and other posts for the classroom availability to expand beyond school hours.

Edublogs.org is not only a platform for teachers to create blogs that invite participation from students and parents, but is also an environment for teachers to learn from other teachers through blogging.

This is a great resource because it provides examples of digital storytelling in each content area.

We chose this website because it gives information about how to create digital stories to show to your class. We thought it was a different way to teach material that many teachers may not think to do. We thought that because it is not very common that when digital stories are shown to the class, they will be more interested in the material that is being taught.

Gives great ideas and examples for digital storytelling.

This article talks about how there can be technology in an art class room. Her students made portfolios of her art projects. This article shows how students can integrate art through that an applications like Photoshop, and InDesign as well for older students at least.

Tells how teachers deal with the new technology in the classroom, and how they should not be afraid of it. Some teachers do not want to use new technology in the classroom because they do not understand it or do not want to learn. This gives encouragement to those teachers who struggle with technology. It also gives helpful suggestions such as have a phone that automatically connects a teacher to a tech agent, so they do not have to wait a half hour for help.

Integration of dance technologies in the classroom, there are a lot of different technologies that go into dance classrooms. From projectors, to microphones, to lighting, it has become a very important aspect of this classroom.

Integrating new technologies into the music classroom can be difficult because students usually do not have desks, just seats and music. But there are many different apps that can be used to create a greater learning environment.

TodaysMeet is a tool that allows teachers to create an online classroom discussion.

I chose this resource for chapter 7- Web Resources for Teaching and Learning, because it provides a "new" interactive method for teacher-student learning. This source provides information for everything you need to know to help engage both the teacher and the students more.

Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens.

You can use this tool to quickly make assessments for your class. The assessments are interactive and you can look at the data from your students after

This is a lesson plan sites where teachers can create a "classroom" for their students to access. Teachers can post quizzes, articles, virtual field trips, etc. for their students.

This is a lesson plan sites where teachers can create a "classroom" for their students to access. Teachers can post quizzes, articles, virtual field trips, etc. for their students.

The use of personal portfolios for assessment and presentation long has been a component of higher education. In fact, personal portfolios are a graduation requirement at many colleges and universities. Now, electronic portfolios have begun to enter the world of K-12 education as well.-Mary Daniels Brown with Education World. This website builds on our learning and use of digital portfolios for ourselves to show how to use them with our students. We will learn how to do our own, and can then help our students in the future.

Another good resource for making portfolios from the textbook. It shows the benefits of going digital with portfolios and integrating technology into them. There are also various examples.

Many educators require student portfolios because they are an ideal way to get students to reflect upon their learning.  To create portfolios, however, students must spend a lot of time managing th...

Many educators require student portfolios because they are an ideal way to get students to reflect upon their learning. Shows student why portfolios are going digital, and the benefits of them going digital.

This is an article on a website written by a teacher describing how she learned to teacher her students better about literature, specially American Literature. Se also discusses different books that are most helpful.

Link to a PDF for a 10 day lesson plan to teach F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". This website includes activities geared towards high school students that will get them engaged in this great American classic.