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Launch Pad is an educational website that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art by young authors and illustrators. It also includes book reviews and writing tips.

Launch Pad is an educational website that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art by young authors and illustrators. It also includes book reviews and writing tips.

Includes games and interactive activities that mirror or are in the style of classic artists.

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. Our filter bubble causes Google and other search engines to limit our searches by personalizing them. Personalized filters look at what you click on first which will throw off the balance of the information you receive. This filter bubble is important to understand so you know when search engines are personlizing your searches so that you can learn how to balance your searches.

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.

Students need to know how to find and curate information from the web. Learning how to effectively search for information on the Internet is something that teachers are not teaching their students how to do because they assume their students know how to conduct an effective search. Provided in this link is searching skills and vocabulary that will help teachers teach their kids how to effectively search.

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.

Ways and ideas to prevent plagiarism in your classroom. Teaching students, especially those that are young, not to plagiarize is in important. Some ideas of how to avoid having to deal with plagiarism in the classroom are provided.

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.

New app promises educators they'll spend less time photocopying and more time teaching. Google Classroom is a great way for students and teachers to communicate, collaborate, share assignments and get graded. Google Classroom brings together many different features of Google; therefore, allowing students to search on student-friendly, custom search engines. Google Classroom will also allow students to continue using many other great Google features that are reliable such as Google scholar.

Students use games, manipulatives, and computers to learn the advantages of using Boolean terms when searching the Web. The site will help you create a lesson to teach your students over boolean logic. With hand-ons and interactive activities, students will be able to understand the concept of Boolean Logic for when they search the internet.

This article shows an easy to follow 7 step guide to social bookmarking! http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Social-Bookmarking

Oklahoma State University Library Homepage. the ultimate search place for journals, article etc.

Teachers provide facts about world events to help find research for scholar research products

ran by librarians with a policy that won't list non-kid friendly sites, doesn't charge, and links subjects that may be controversial

"mother of all search engines." Searches all places including social media and job postings

Haiku Deck offers many templates and themes for presentations. It is a lot like PowerPoint, but it is simple to use. This is also a great resource for students to use online.

This is a visual way to plan projects or events. It is a fun way to manage lessons, progress, and assignments.

The #1 task management app used by over 11 million people globally, Any.do is free mobile and online task manager for Android, iPhone, Web and more. This is an easy way to share tasks with others, while also making quick to do lists. Educators can use this tool to organize ideas, and make quick notes.

Remix-T is online resource for educators to create engaging activities through video. Remix-T shows step by step instruction to create your own video. Students could also use this resource for assignments.