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Website I use during my Civil War Unit

Classzone.com is an interactive website that our textbook provides to enrich students' understanding. The website has an online textbook with audio that struggling readers can use. It also has section quizzes, crosswords puzzles, click and drag games, section notes, interactive maps, animated maps, and all kinds of other things. I think it also increases student engagement because students enjoy completing the various activities. .

It's easy to get the tools mixed up, but it's important to know the differences. Quite often (usually by executives) I'm asked the difference between Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks, here's usually how I explain it (focusing first on usage and benefits rather than technical details): Forums are like social mixers, where everyone is at equal level, milling about and discussing with others.

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Here are Michael Thornton's student livebinders. These are textbooks written by the students. Except for the typo on Ancient Greece review, this is a marvelous example of having students build meaningful textbooks.Interestingly, Michael's livebinder puts together livebinders themselves.

Cool Tools for Schools is loaded with ideas to use in any subject area. Any one of them can be used to align with the standards and benchmarks for state and local requirements. In some ways it is overwhelming. Learning a few at a time and trying them to see how students actually adapt to them would be the best practice. Overloading them might be frustrating. I can see the frustrations students can have with all the new concepts; I'm frustrated with an online course.

Let's face it. None of us have the time to do half of what we want to do. We all appreciate good lessons, free resources, and a little inspiration or insight from other teachers. Well, this is my way of paying it forward!

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Common Sense Media  just added 12 Digital Citizenship lessons for high school students. View units on:Dealing with digital harassment and online dramaProtecting their reputation in a digital worldExploring their identitySourcing content responsiblyAnd more! As always, these lessons are completely FREE. Check back in September for high school lessons in the Safety and Security and Research and Information Literacy strands.

Infographics as a Creative Assessment. This  Kathy Schrock site provides links, ideas, tips, and much more for supporting the use of infographics as an assessment option in the classroom. Great way to differentiate your classroom and provide support for visual leaners.

Download the pdf article on this web site