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Online guided reading program with interactive ebooks, downloadable books, and reading quizzes.

Online guided reading program with interactive ebooks, downloadable books, and reading quizzes.

Facebook may be perceived as a distraction for online learning audiences. However, there are ways that instructional designers can actually use it to their advantage to create immersive and engaging eLearning experiences. In this article, they share a Facebook guide for eLearning professionals explaining why Facebook is such a powerful eLearning tool.

This guide can help teachers incorporate project based learning in their classrooms no matter the subject.

This is a good site for connecting education and technology. It has options for you to choose rather you are a teacher or a student; they also have a teachers guide column.

Pinterest can be used as a guide for your creative ideas as you plan your lessons. By simply searching for words such as educational technology and lesson planning you can get a plethora of ideas regarding those areas.

"Tackk is a place connect with friends, be creative and have fun conversations." Based on what I learned from my short time of playing on Tackk's website, I have found it to be an interesting way to allow students to be engaged in their learning. One big use that comes to mind for me would be an online study guide. In history courses this could be particularly useful. You can add videos, maps, images, text, etc that the students can look over and review at their own pace.

To help teach your students about plagiarism, this lesson plan will guide teachers with activities and videos. There is a kid-friendly video about what plagiarism is. There are also many activities that you can use with your kids to give them a better idea and help them visualize what plagiarism is.

Plagiarism is a hot topic in the academic world, but it applies in all aspects of our lives. This is a guide to show your students that may help to prevent plagiarism. Especially applicable to high school and older grades, the students can do a self-check to see if their writing is authentic. This self-check will help them find out the types of plagiarism and the severity of it.

Cheating isn't something that a few bad apples do every now & then, it proliferates. In a 2010 survey of teenage students, 1 in 3 admitted to plagiarizing. Therefore, plagiarism is not a problem that teachers can ignore. Technology has brought ease to plagiarism with easy, quick access to information. This guide will help teachers find tools for detecting plagiarism.

Guide to creating a PLN. Comprised of 10 sections linked to the main page. Each section includes images and videos that help to illustrate the process.

Know it or not, you already have some sort of Personal Learning Network or PLN! It could be your colleagues, family, students, friends - whoever! But with the power of the web and online collaborat...

10 Great Steps to Grow Your Own PLN

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine.

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN. Help you understand why educators create their own PLN.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. It's great for people who still need to delve deeper into what a PLN actually is.

This is a very information-rich site that further introduces the PLN and delves into several different avenues a teacher can take in developing their PLN, with one avenue explored being Twitter. I particularly found the Step 6: Curation page to be intriguing. This page introduces curation, the strategic collection and compilation of knowledge and media found online, and demonstrates how it can be a valuable tool for educators engaged in expanding and sharing their constant learning and teaching journeys (See the video towards the middle of the page where a teacher shows his netvibes and scoopit accounts, and the very complex ways in which teachers can organize and share knowledge from these information collection/filtering tools. VERY valuable for our fast-paced and information-heavy time.)

Teachers can use this resource to guide the digital aspect of their classroom to allow all students to be cautious of their technology.

This website has hundreds of worksheets that will guide and help students create sentences.

Learn how to take notes the right way. Here are some of the most effective tips for becoming a digital note-taking pro.

Learn how to take notes the right way. Here are some of the most effective tips for becoming a digital note-taking pro.