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The Google Chromebook, a type of stripped-down laptop, isn't a practical mobile device for many people - mostly because it basically turns into an expensive paperweight whenever it can't find a Wi-Fi connection. Yet Chromebooks have defied expectations and made major inroads in an unexpected environment - U.S.

Take a browse through the No Sweat Shakespeare website using the navigation options at the top and right hand side of each page, or click the quick links below to take you to a specific article on Shakespeare: Shakespeare Basics: Brush up on some Shakespeare facts, read William Shakespeare's biography, see Shakespeare's life and work in a timeline or swot up on Elizabethan theatre and drama.

Tagxedo turns words - famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters - into a visually stunning word cloud

Imagine a school where each subject, from mathematics to history, has a gaming component. That's the case at Quest to Learn (Q2L), a sixth- through 12th-grade school in New York City. The school opened in 2009, with an emphasis on integrating games into learning, such as a one-trimester gaming experience in which a scientist travels through the human body, a post on Edudemic reports.

What kinds of jobs will our students have, and how well are we preparing them for the future? The World Economic Forum, a not-for-profit foundation, is reaching out to educators worldwide. Their call to educators includes redefining what it means to be educated and prepared for work and civic participation-as well as an integration of technology.

Scrible is a free annotation tool available to users across many platforms, with a fully integrated Google Chrome extension. Simply highlighting information on a current events article about emails, and cross-referencing the ISTE infographic on Digital Citizens, students can come to their own conclusions about the do's and don'ts of being a responsible digital citizen.

Scholastic MATH promotes students to use articles and other forms of media that are reliable and academically focused.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

a great way to find ideas on how to teach your students to get great digital citizens! #techinpedagogy400

The QR, or "Quick Response" code, is much like barcode, except that it can hold more data. With one quick scan using a QR code reader app (most of which are free) the "matrix image," as Edutopia's Monica Burns calls it, can lead you to a specific place on the web.