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"The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. They are asked to read closely, make inferences, cite evidence, analyze arguments and interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text. Primary source documents are artifacts created by individuals during a particular period in history. This could be a letter, speech, photograph or journal entry. If you're looking to integrate social studies into your literacy block, try out one of these resources for primary source documents. "

On My Reading Mapped you will find KML files (AKA Google Maps & Earth files) for things like historical migration and trade routes, monarchies and republics, famous explorer and conqueror expeditions, and climate change patterns. (The Rise, Fall, and Migration of Civilization Due to Climate Change.)

Resembling a course catalog, CourseWorld is a non-profit initiative that relies solely on crowd-sourcing contributions from site users and freelance volunteers. The organization has gathered a vast array of liberal arts topics into one place, making it easier for online learners to find and browse content, which includes lectures, panel discussions, archival footage, documentaries, and historic interviews culled from YouTube. The free educational hub features 16,000 indexed and keyword-tagged videos in 700 categories. Read more at http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/09/24/courseworld-launches-free-liberal-arts-video-platform.aspx?=THEEL#fEOYV2P4fsMZMOPa.99

driver check

driver update for Lenovo tablets (newer teacher tablets

"Moodle.net (formerly known as MOOCH) connects you with free content and courses shared by Moodle users all over the world. It contains: courses you can download and use courses you can enrol in and participate other content you can import into your own courses"

online Media Library, built on the open source DSpace repository platform, provides a growing list of about 6,000 total resources, including 3,000 open educational resources, 1,300 videos, 124 full-length textbooks, and 2,500 articles. Resources cover the arts, sciences, humanities, social sciences, engineering, business, and test prep. Materials include primary texts (such as Beowulf and Hamlet), references (such as the Catholic Encyclopedia), textbooks (such as The Electronic Introduction to Old English), maps, presentations, audio recordings, assessments, assignments, data sets, and others.

"40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World" but you wouldn't want to use all of them in the classroom!

" How do you facilitate effective, online discussions?"

"The magic of the silver screen: Movie clips to inspire curiosity in the classroom"

"Find geographic data and products such as the TIGER/Line Shapefiles, KMLs, TIGERweb, cartographic boundary files, geographic relationship files, and reference and thematic maps."

On-line graphing calculator

An expansive collection of resources, including photos, video, and audio files from federal organizations like NASA, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives, will now be easier to find, access and integrate into educational environments.

introduction to infographics, clues to teaching and/or creating with info graphics, huge collection of ready to use inforgraphics for High School

3000 years of history, hyperlinked.

A listing of blogs suitable for Professional development

"Resources and Downloads for Teaching Critical Thinking Educators from the Bay Area's KIPP King Collegiate High School and the KIPP network have provided these resources for you to use in your own school."

Moodle Tutorial: Using book module pages instead of topic/week blocks to avoid the "scroll of death"

Flipped Classroom: English (Grammar, Usage, Style, Literary Terms) Videos and activities for English instruction.

"from the folks at Always Prepared entitled: 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology' and the infographic it inspired from Mark Bates. Both highlight "The Habitudes" of educators who are effectively using technology to enhance and impact teaching and learning. Hat tip to Shawn McCusker for this awesome Twitter find!"

new website that lets users create image-based quizzes with ease. Just upload your image, choose a title, and begin tagging the locations of the labels. Tagging works by drawing on the image to define what the quiz should test people on, and then labeling each of those tags. It is very easy to use and has a basic, simple interface and best of all - no signup required! This means you can get students to create their own quizzes without worrying about them having to create accounts and then forgetting the passwords…