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ClassRealm is a customizable classroom management system built on role playing themes. Teachers can use ClassRealm to set up specific goals and achievements for individual students or entire classes, as well as to track student data and progress. Students can earn achievements and experience points by doing a wide array of school related tasks such as doing well on tests, helping others, and reading extra books. Parents can use ClassRealm to follow their child's many adventures online and can even create personalized side quests. ClassRealm makes learning a grand adventure!

Discovered lesson through OER. Related to research for this class; to be used to strengthen teacher understanding of instruction with ebooks.

Shared during staff development as a way to improve digital note taking by students.

Great resource for writing teachers of all ages for mentor texts to use when teaching writing skills to students.

Read Across America's new direction is fantastic and an awesome resource for teachers! I have promoted this website to teachers when they are looking for read aloud suggestions. It includes teaching resources to go with featured books and links to other literacy resources as well.

A set of lessons that I could use with my K-1 students in the library as we do certain library lessons. I know it seems rather basic but I always need ideas to show my paraprofessional as well because there are times I just cannot be in the library.

Free ebooks

We are in this battle right now where the person at the secondary wants to switch to Alexandria. She doesn't do anything with our circulation and doesn't know how to check out a book, but she is stopping me from updating our Destiny system. Right now we are server hosted and are about 3 updates behind.

Impressive collection of really old audiobooks...simple and free!

Planet Ebook offers over 80+ free classic books for free on your computer or mobile device. This would be a great resource for middle or high school students who have a reading goal that includes classic literature.

See this site to download a free e-book: The Ultimate Guide to OER-How You Can Improve Educational Content. TopHat has been showing up in blogs and Twitter as an app to help build connections with students during teaching. Maybe they are on to something...

Students can create their own trading cards / flash cards about people or events that happened in a book they're reading.

This can be used in conjunction with a ELA class when studying a classic novel. If a teacher need multiple copies of a book students could access copies via the Gutenberg site - allowing them to have access on any device they choose.