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seth_mitchell

The 5 Best Free Annotation Tools For Teachers - 3 views

  • Markup.io 
    • Susan Inman
       
      I'm really interested in this--want to see if it works with Google Maps.  I love to screenshot a map and circle or highlight details for whomever I am sending it to.  I tried to sign up, but their website says they are preparing an updated version for 2014.  I'm on the mailing list if they get round to publishing it!  I'll let y'all know.
    • seth_mitchell
       
      Please do!  Outside of Diigo, this tool is the most interesting on the list.
  • lets you bookmark and tag web pages
  • attach sticky notes to it
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  • tags, titles, URLs and even your own comments and highlights
seth_mitchell

digitalwritingworkshop - Websites_And_Apps - 2 views

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    Digital tools for writing. Comprehensive list.
seth_mitchell

I Just Can't Do It All: The Connected Educator Letdown | Ditch That Textbook - 2 views

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    Great reminder for teachers in our institutes who feel overwhelmed by too many options... We say this all the time, but it doesn't hurt to hear it from someone else.
seth_mitchell

Digital Student Portfolios - #principalcast - 3 views

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    Interesting use of Evernote to discuss Evernote.
seth_mitchell

Your Digital Dad - YouTube - 1 views

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    Kevin Honeycutt is awesome.
seth_mitchell

Choose What Happens Next - YouTube - 1 views

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    Great resource for the digital citizenship group
thebda

What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • careful reading can advance great writing.
  • Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
  • What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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  • Most students could use greater familiarity with what newspaper, magazine and book editors call “narrative nonfiction”: writing that tells a factual story, sometimes even a personal one, but also makes an argument and conveys information in vivid, effective ways.
  • Web sites, which have begun providing online lesson plans using articles for younger readers, and on ProPublica.org.
Susan Inman

Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH | The Thinking Stick - 3 views

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    Interesting article about teaching students how to search on the web...with k-12 lesson plans for teaching search techniques
seth_mitchell

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World | Pew Research Center's Internet & American ... - 2 views

  • Some 77% of advanced placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers surveyed say that the internet and digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” impact on their students’ research work.
    • seth_mitchell
       
      Something to say.
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    Interesting study about students and research.
Rebecca Redlon

Education Week Teacher: How Blogging Can Improve Student Writing - 2 views

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    affirmation of what we already know -- good fodder
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