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I was sitting and thinking about how I've enjoyed many books recently from different points of view. Sometimes these books are challenging for students to read and follow. What is your strategy for reading a book with multiple points of view? Listening to audiobooks with different points of view? Me?

Given space limitations, the illustrative texts listed above are meant only to show individual titles that are representative of a range of topics and genres. (See Appendix B for excerpts of these and other texts illustrative of grades 6-12 text complexity, quality, and range.)

Create your own comics online with MakeBeliefsComix.com! This online comic generator from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and a sense of fun!

Join the movement and introduce a group of students to their first hour of computer science with these steps: We provide a variety of fun, hour-long tutorials for students of all ages, created by a variety of partners.

The first few days of school are a vital time to set the right tone for the rest of the year. Many teachers focus on important things like getting to know their students, building relationships and making sure students know what the classroom procedures will be.

Michelle Pearson is a Teacher and Preservationist who was the 2011 Colorado Teacher of the Year and the 2008 Colorado Apex Technology Teacher of the Year. Laura Israelsen is a Teacher Librarian and 21st Century Learning teacher at Hulstrom Options K-8 School She was Head Teacher-Librarian of the 2010 Colorado Library of the Year.

Michelle Pearson is a Teacher and Preservationist who was the 2011 Colorado Teacher of the Year and the 2008 Colorado Apex Technology Teacher of the Year. Laura Israelsen is a Teacher Librarian and 21st Century Learning teacher at Hulstrom Options K-8 School She was Head Teacher-Librarian of the 2010 Colorado Library of the Year.

Notes on Journal Prompts journal journal writing promptswriting prompts Based on the assumption that an academic year, in most cases, consists of 180 days divided into 4 quarters, I have grouped these prompts accordingly. You, of course, may choose to use any of these at whatever time you like.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already featured several of these tips and tricks that teachers and students can use to tap into the full potential of this phenomenon called Google. Adding to these resources is a very short, succinct and simple graphic that sums up 7 of the most important search tweaks that can render your Google search more effective and to the point.

It's no secret that teenagers love social media. Members of " Generation Z" can spend up to nine hours a day sharing photos on Instagram, consuming "content" on YouTube and talking to friends on Snapchat. (Just don't ask them to get excited about Facebook.)

When Taylor Ferguson started as a freshman at Towson University in Baltimore, she was already well ahead of her nursing program classmates. As a high school student in the Academy of Health Professions Program at Western School of Technology and Environmental Science, she had earned certifications in CPR and First Aid and had learned to take vital signs, make hospital beds, and communicate with patients, physicians, nurses and hospital administrators.

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Education has changed. No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren't confined by the eight hours between the school bell's chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program.

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Facebook has been under fire for spreading fake news stories that may have helped Donald Trump win the presidential election. Over the weekend, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said the social media giant did not affect the election results. "More than 99 percent of what people see is authentic," he wrote on the social network's website over the weekend.

They say not to judge a book by its cover, but there's no saying about judging a book by its first line. I can usually tell within a few minutes if I'll enjoy a book. Based on this infographic, it seems that many famous books are good from the start.

Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana of the Right Question Institute have a developed a wonderfully simple, fun, and highly effective exercise designed to encourage students to generate lots of questions. The process is explained in detail in Rothstein and Santana's book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions -a must-read for teachers or anyone interested in improving education.

Recently, Common Sense Media named Ask a Tech Teacher as one of the 2014 blogs to watch on the topic of Digital Citizenship. It reminded me what a massive topic this is!

Posted: 04/21/2014 12:01:00 AM MDT A Colorado Springs bar owner has been fined $21,000 for violating copyright infringement by using songs of artists, including Toby Keith, on her karaoke machine. LaShawn Carey, owner of the Carey-On Saloon, was fined for not having licensed the songs for use in a commercial setting in a 2012 incident.