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EasyBib is a great site for more than just creating citations for essays. Click on Student Resources for help with the research process, evaluating sources, planning and writing essays. Info screens are short and easy to understand, but packed with important info. For those assigning presentations, go to Student Resources>Research Guide>Improving visuals of presentations.

This is a collection of math tutorial videos.

Opus is a new service that aims to help middle school mathematics teachers discover sample math problems aligned to Common Core standards. To find problems on Opus search by entering a topic and selecting a grade. You can also find problems by clicking the "browse the Core directly" link on the Opus homepage. Either way when you find a problem you can save it to your free Opus account where you can then generate a Word doc or Google Document of all of your saved problems. You can also create an answer sheet in your Opus account.

"A web whiteboard for schools. Create a sketch, share it with students. They mark up their own and share it back. No plugin, installation or app required! Works on all modern computers, smartphones and tablets! "

Great resource for using MLA citation. Pages not only tell what info to use in the citation, but have screen shots of web pages for really clear, usable examples.

This site, produced by the University of Oregon, features lots of animated maps illustrating problems, patterns, and events throughout history. Mapping History is essentially a digital atlas of American, European, Latin American, and African history. Each section is divided into modules based on historical themes and eras.

Excellent strategies for increasing comprehension--especially in content area reading.

Quizdini is a free tool for creating online quizzes. The best feature of Quizdini is that you can create explanations of the correct answer for your students to view immediately after trying each question in your quiz. Your explanation can include text and or links to online resources like videos and images. Quizdini quizzes can be created in a traditional linear format or in a matching format that asks students to pair answers to terms.