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Convert cluttered web pages into easy to read, intuitively formatted text. This is excellent as a productivity tool or as a means for using online text in lessons and activities.

Excellent free units made available from Odell Education. Units on Close Reading and making evidence based claims for grade 6-12 are available here. All materials are included including the texts. Each unit is designed to be 3 weeks long. The materials and models here are very well aligned to Common Core standards and could serve as excellent models for teachers adapting to teaching the new standards.

We know that there is a strong relationship between vocabulary and reading comprehension. Systematic vocabulary instruction is an integral part of a K-12 comprehensive literacy framework for instruction. via Feedly

A great tip from Richard Byrne. Read his blog at http://www.freetech4teachers.com

A large collection of free video lessons addressing Math and ELA Common Core Standards.   Also includes commentary from teachers, sllides to use on interactive whiteboards, and more.   

Article about using the "social" aspects of Destiny Quest to engender interest in and passion for books!

Excellent lessons and units from ReadWriteThink. Common Core aligned. Also a source of non-fiction passages.

Read about the large collection of public domain images made available through a partnership between Google and Life magazine. via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

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Excellent resource for science teachers working to meet Common Core ELA standards.  Passages and question sets are included for grades K-6.

Kathy Schrock is an educational technologist with a wealth of experience and ideas to share. The Schrock Guide to Everything is Kathy Schrock's most up-to-date space and it includes a wealth of information. See especially her guide to "creating a Personal Learning Network."

Kathy Shcrock is one of my favorite edtech "gurus." I never read her blog or visit her site without learning something new and bringing home a new idea or "gem" to share. Take a look, and see if you agree.

Article about course designed using web 2.0 tools.

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This brand new FREE service provides excellent news-style current event articles on a variety of topics that are written at multiple levels of text complexity. You can adjust the Lexile level of the text with a few clicks! Teachers can create student accounts and assign texts. Each text has a built in quiz linked to CCSS standards. This tool should be very valuable for any teacher trying to meet CCSS standards for informational texts while addressing differentiated reading needs among her students. Take a look and let me know what you think. Here's looking at you TPSD 6-12 teachers!

How computer games can be used to teach different topics

Nice. There is a lot of interesting research in this area. One place to follow some of the latest research is the Game Learning Society at UW-Madison. http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/ Read about some of the interesting games they have developed. http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/games.php

Great article especially for those just beginning to incorporate Google Drive

Agreed! Thanks Dorie. Also, with Google Docs integration in Haiku, students can "turn in" google docs to a Haiku assignment. All of the sharing is then handled automatically, and you, as the teacher, can launch, comment, and annotate the students work from within Haiku. This makes it very convenient! Likewise, if you add a google doc to a content block in Haiku, it will automatically be shared with the students in that Haiku class. When you add it, you may choose whether to grant viewing, commenting, or editing permissions on the doc to the students in the class. Then students can launch that document directly from your Haiku class. Google Docs + Haiku makes managing assignments in Google Docs/Drive much easier.

One other thought: Bypassing Haiku for a minute, I have also read about teachers using a google form to "collect" assignments in Google Drive. Students "turn in" their assignments by completing a short form with their name and a title and description of the assignment. Then they paste the document url into the form. That way, the teacher has a spreadsheet with each student's name and a direct link to their assignment. So, the teacher can go line by line through the spreadsheet and grade and annotate each student's assignment. I thought this was a clever solution.