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To begin the peer circle, one student volunteers to share a reaction to McBride's memoir. This student then calls on another student (whose hand is raised) to contribute a related reaction. The circle continues this way, each student calling on another student to share reactions, quotations, or questions they have prepared, until everyone has participated at least once. Together they consider student-created questions by looking closely at passages in the text and talking to each other.

Most of the time, we are not able to take a field trip on the spur of a moment to the zoo. However, at this website, you are able to have access to a virtual zoo visit. Students are able to observe different animal species in real time. Excellent when teaching about habitats and life cycles.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary?

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary?

This is How to Use TPACK Model to Integrate Technology into Teaching ~ Educational Technology and Mobile

How to publish a recording to your Box account.

Girl Scouts introduces girls of every age to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) experiences relevant to everyday life. Whether they're discovering how a car's engine runs, how to manage finances, or exploring careers in STEM fields, girls are fast-forwarding into the future.

Try Jing for a free and simple way to start sharing images and short videos of your computer screen. Whether for work, home, or play, Jing gives you the ability to add basic visual elements to your captures and share them fast.

Try Jing for a free and simple way to start sharing images and short videos of your computer screen. Whether for work, home, or play, Jing gives you the ability to add basic visual elements to your captures and share them fast. Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen with Jing.

This program pretends to go further: to use a cool, smart and amusing tool, comics, to foster the written expression of our students in both Spanish and English languages. With the correct difficulty grade, a constant help utility, a lot of already developed materials.

Graphing site that is simple enough for younger students to use and allow the user to plot functions and get a permanent url to the graph.

Read, watch and listen to student interviews of elders who witnessed key historic events of the 20th century. Could be used to build background knowledge, questioning techniques, or how to interview

This article shares how to use digital tools to teach Language Arts.

Researchers have made a lot of progress in determining how to teach reading more effectively, but it really comes down to the effectiveness of each individual teacher. Teachers make the difference.

Thinkfinity is the Verizon Foundation's free online professional learning community, providing access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 - aligned to state standards and the common core. Here, educators connect and collaborate through themed groups, blogs and discussions, sharing resources and best practices that support 21st century teaching and learning.

At this website you will find a YouTube video titled, "Why do we need to build 21st Skills with our students?" You will also find the six key elements for fostering 21st century learning explained in detail. You will also find links to 21st C Connected classrooms.

Learn how to create education videos for students through vodcasting, a cheap and easy way to flip classes.

Collaborate to find websites and videos that are the most useful to a certain topic

Evernote is a great tool, especially for language study. If you attempt to read something and there is a word or sentence that you don't know use Evernote to clip it and review it later.

Allows you to collaboratively create poems and short stories. On the website, you can contribute to story or poem that someone else has started and placed in the public gallery.

Is an excellent tool that can be used for teaching creative writing to your students. With this tool, students will be able to create a story in minutes, with animation if desired, and then share their story with somebody else or even create a print out. My Carnigie Story Maker is extremely user friendly and students can get starte