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Virginia's Holocaust Museum is expanding their oral history collection to include stories from survivors and witnesses of other genocides/mass atrocities, in addition to the Holocaust. There was a story about this on NPR/WCVE this morning, which referenced how an AP English teacher at GAHS is using this resource with his students. News story -- http://ideastations.org/radio/news/virginia-currents-va-holocaust-museum-expands-oral-history-collection

A new way to do annotating and proof-reading with your students.

A new way to learn.

"Teachers might use only a fraction of the tools launched by Silicon Valley, but some are using them very effectively. There are no computer labs at Philadelphia Science Academy. Instead, high school kids carry Dell Chromebooks around with them and even have their own school email addresses. It's all part of the school's strategy to make technology "ubiquitous, necessary and invisible" in the classroom."

"Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension and vocabulary development software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, helps them learn words in new ways, and helps teachers create high-interest learning materials from any English text passage."

Have you been looking for an easy way to have students put in their ideas and outlines into a visually appealing format? Text 2 Mind Map provides students with a visual representation of their brainstorming activity. This free, online, tool would be great for pre-writing activities, vocabulary instruction, foreign language acquisition, or whenever you introduce a new concept that revolves around a particular subject area.

When we get MS Word 2013 next school year, this is one of the new features.

News service that provides articles at 5 different reading levels.

"User review sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor can be a boon for people looking for a stylish haircut, authentic Thai curry or dog-friendly hotel, but savvy users say it takes a little detective work to keep from being led astray by false kudos or criticisms."

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"GRASPS can be an important tool for framing assessment. GRASPS is an acronym that helps to ensure that the task the teacher is assigning is authentic and real world. This GRASPS "checklist" can also be applied when you are designing a Henrico 21 lesson plan."