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Create online assignments with video and images to engage students, provide practice, and assess their speaking.

"Lingt Classroom helps teachers enable their students to speak. -Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet. -Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Perfect for IB and AP preparation. -Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement. - Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises. - Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement. "

"The amount of homework assigned is less important than the quality and value of the work being done. Assigning homework only has value if the work contributes to students' learning and engagement. Studies show a wide variation in the kind and quality of homework assigned and in its perceived importance or value by students and parents."

Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS.

Geograffiti creats voice-marks - audio postings to specific map locations. For example, a history teacher assigns his students to create an audio tour about local history. The students go to various historical monuments and buildings in the community and then phone in historical summaries of the significance of these sites to Geograffiti, which places the oral recordings in the appropriate geographic locations on the map. This activity would enable students to research local history, pratice public speaking, and learn geography in one assignment.

The table contains all the usual information you find in a periodic table of elements, but then under each element, it lists real-world items that contain that element. This opens up a new avenue of projects for Science teachers where students can not only learn the different elements, but then connect them to real world uses and even explore the method in which the element is applied. For example, assigning a student to report on radon, they'll see it's a key element in earthquake predictors.

"findingEducation is a FREE educator tool that helps you find the best online resources and share them with your students. Find online education resources for all grades and subjects. Manage, organize and share your link resources. Create Web-based assignments for your students."

"The Visual Ranking Tool brings focus to the thinking behind making ordered lists. Students identify and refine criteria as they assign order or ranking to a list. They must explain their reasoning and can compare their work with each other in a visual diagram. This tool supports activities where students need to organize ideas, debate differences, and reach consensus. The tool and related resources are available for free, from any computer that is connected to the Internet. Students may work on their lists at home or at school, and can even compare their ideas with students located in distant classrooms. "

"We believe that everyone should have the same opportunity to learn. The best way to make this possible, we believe, is to organize into one, super directory the hundreds of thousands of good videos currently available on the Internet. To make this a reality, we invite teachers, instructors and educators to suggest videos for inclusion into our directory, and then to review, approve, and assign those videos into appropriate categories using a wiki framework and philosophy. The videos are the highest quality found on the World Wide Web, cover all major educational topics from elementary to secondary schools (or age range 1 - 18), and are Kid Safe!"

Whether it's to get more out of your classroom, work on projects or plan events, your group needs the right tools to be successful. ETG has a lot of features to help your group communicate and get organized. Shared Calendar, Site Email, File Sharing, Instant Chat & Message Boards, Private Classrooms & GroupsTasks and Assignments, Polls, Blogging, Twitter and our Q&A ForumIt's, Free!

KidBiz® provides the first Web-based, individualized reading and writing instruction solution for grades 2-5 that reaches every student at his or her Lexile™ level. Powered by a proprietary software engine that distributes assignments to the entire class, but tailors them according to each student's reading level, KidBiz enables teachers to customize content and monitor student growth with a simple click of the mouse. Importantly, KidBiz extends teachers' reach without increasing workloads or time demands. Perhaps most important of all, KidBiz is proven to accelerate reading comprehension, writing proficiency, vocabulary development and high-stakes test scores.

"One of the discussions that came up during the morning presentation with the middle school staff was the idea of writing for audience. The traditional model in the classroom has the teacher assign a writing project for students. "

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YouTube can automatically assign captions to video using speech recognition. Moreover, video publishers can now upload a transcript for their videos, which further helps the site add accurate captioning. You can translate these captions into multiple languages too when watching videos.

Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents. For Educators - Quick access to powerful writing lessons and assessments For Students - Step-by-step support for completing writing assignments For Parents - Tips for helping your child become a better writer, thinker, and learner

Samples for all types of writing pieces. Each sample is labeled with descriptions like " attention-getting paragraph" or " summary of main points." Very helpful if you are starting a new assignment that you do not have past exemplars for.

Each week Finding Education post's a "Quiztory" based on historical facts presented in "On This Day" for the previous week. Eclectic!