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Picasa (free photo editing software from Google) tutorials, tips and advice

Picasa tutorials, tips and advice

SnagFilms is committed to finding the world's most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and making them available to the wide audience these titles deserve. SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we're also a platform that lets you "snag" a film and put it anywhere on the web

"The purpose of this website (Vatican II - Voice of The Church) is to explain and promote the teachings of the Second Vatican Council during which The Church examined itself, took note of, and opened itself to a world changing at an unprecedented rate. The principal method of the website is to record the teachings and changes of Vatican II in the writings of men who were there. Major contributions are from Cardinal Koenig of Vienna and the English Dom Christopher Butler OSB."

Resources for Catholic Educators Web site has an extensive section on the Parables of Jesus that has recently been expanded and now offers close to 500 resources. For each of 34 parables, you can find links to articles, commentaries, homilies, meditations, clipart , art, posters, children's stories, puzzles, videos and more.

This Web page gives you access to 75 large maps related to Jewish history taken from a textbook called Judaism: History, Belief & Practice. The first 25 of these are useful for Old Testament study.

Interactive map of Biblical sites on the dead sea

Curriculum Support reflects the belief that quality support leads to quality teaching and to quality educational leadership and management in schools. Through this website we aim to develop authentic partnerships with its users, to enhance our services and to contribute to improved student learning and teacher professional knowledge and skill.

Check for plagiarism before you turn it in to your tutor, and before you receive a bad grade for your paper. Also, check your web content for duplication.

While the web may have made it easier for students to copy other people's writing, it also has made it easier for teachers to test student work against a corpus of preexisting material to catch plagiarizers. One way to do that is to search for suspicious sentences in Google (Google) and do the detective work yourself. Another way to go about testing for plagiarism is to use a free web-based tool like DOC Cop, which does the heavy lifting for you and emails you a report indicating how much of the document may have been copied and where the copied lines may have originated.

Footnote is a collection of over 58 million original historical documents that history teachers can use to make history seem more real. What better way to connect students to something that happened a hundred and fifty years ago than to let them actually explore documents and original sources from that time? Users of Footnote can also annotate documents, to help others better understand them.

Healthy Choices part of PBS's activity packs Create an action plan about choices you make regarding diet, the way you resolve conflicts and other health-related decisions.

SAS Curriculum Pathways, which is used by thousands of teachers in more than 30 states, is now available for free to every educator in America. SAS Curriculum Pathways provides content in the core disciplines of English, mathematics, social studies, science and Spanish. Aligned with state standards, it has more than 200 InterActivities and 855 ready-to-use lessons that enable technology-rich instruction and engage higher-order thinking skills. It is primarily for use in grades 8-12, though middle school content is in development.

History Animated is a fantastic resource for teachers of US History. The animations will make great supplements to classroom instruction. The animations are a significant improvement over drawing or pointing to places on a map.

You are invited to view or upload your videos to the Open Source collection! These thousands of videos were contributed by Archive users and community members. These videos are available for free download

Prayerful

a search engine specifically for religious Web sites. Search for Catholic resources, but also for information on other Christian denominations and world religions.

WEBSITES HELPFUL TO TEACHERS Few of the activities accessed by these links have been made by Mr. Ferlazzo. Most of these links will take you to websites created by companies, public institutions, or other teachers. Look around their sites when you go to the links.

Quick answers to real classroom technology questions. An online service of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse.

This is a collection of 2 Minute Moodles - an attempt to simplify and show how to use a range of Moodle features. The list will grow as I find time to cook some more. The tutorials try not to assume too much previous knowledge and are presented for the pragmatical and not necessarily tech-savy users