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Takes a little time to load but totally worth it...gives the week's news in an awesome rap/video.

Unbelievably good video with rap. The Week in Rap provides a weekly summary of current events in a hip-hop music video for teens and students. Sometimes called "Weekend Rap" or "Week and Rap." Recommended by Kelly Tenkley at iLearn Technology.

Great photoshop tutorials for photographers and students too!

Fun prime factors song.... My students loved singing along!

Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents.

For those who have iPads, there is a free app as well by the same name. Essentially it "scrapes" a number of reliable web resources for information on a topic of choice. Then it puts the information together in what looks like a "Trade Book" found in the Non-Fiction part of your library, filled with engaging pictures and short summarized pieces of information. Finally, it reads the article to the user.  This is a tool that could help students not to simply copy and paste wikipedia articles as they are preparing research.

Pay Attention Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website.

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch our engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities. Behind the Lesson provides information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

This free online application is designed to help students in grades 5-12 write an online persuasive essay.

Where I'm from poem. Students can write their own version.

How to use blogs in the classroom.

Midddle School Help site!

Blog article on ipads.