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"Each December, we take a look back at the year's big news with quizzes, teaching ideas and a roundup of links to interesting retrospectives around the Web. And since we're big fans, every year we link to Flocabulary's Year in Rap. Flocabulary is an online learning platform that features educational songs, videos and resources for grades K-12. For the last two years, Flocabulary has created a Year in Rap as a supplement to its popular Week in Rap, which is produced in partnership with Channel One News. This year we thought it would be fun to formally collaborate with them and offer a contest in which students are invited to write lyrics for their own mini "Years in Rap." Since Flocabulary is in the business of using rap for teaching and learning, they were enthusiastic - and even offered to provide a lesson plan to guide teachers or students new to composing in rhyme. Below, you'll find the contest rules, the lesson plan and a rubric to show what we'll be looking for in the lyrics your students post. The contest deadline is Jan. 6."

"The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to World War I, including photographs, documents, newspapers, films, sheet music, and sound recordings. This guide compiles links to World War I resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, this guide provides links to external Web sites focusing on World War I and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers."

"Curriculum Resources CyberSmart K-8 Web Wise Kids I Keep Safe iSafe NetSmartz Stay Safe Online Cyberbullying Cyberbully Awareness Deal with Hateful Content Internet Super Heroes Net Bullies NYSSCA PowerPoint Stop Cyberbullying TextBullying & Harassment Kids (K-6) Cyber Treehouse NetSmartz Kids Online Safety Rules PBS Kids Safe Kids Safety Land Game Surf Swell Island (Disney) Three Little Cyber Pigs - Part 1 Three Little Cyber Pigs - Part 2 Who's Afraid of Little Sweet Sheep? Wired Kids Teens Chat Danger Cyber Angels Don't Believe the Type ID the Creep NetSmartz Teens Safe Teens Think Before You Post Parents CyberSmart Tips FBI Internet Safety Tips Minimize Online Predator Risk NetSmartz Parents Safe Side, The Safety Tips for Families 5 Tips in 5 Minutes Video Internet Filter Info & Reviews FREE K9 Filtering Software FREE Content Filtering Spector Monitoring Software ParentCare Software Other Illinois Internet Safety Act 2007 PEW Report 2008 ICE IS Presentation 2008 U of I Ext Presentation Unit 10 School Internet Safety Sites CMS Jefferson Kreitner Renfro Summit Webster Unit 10 Internet Safety Helping our kids stay safe online! New! 4 minutes to better MySpace security settings 3 minutes to better Facebook security settings Tips for safe online gaming April is Internet Safety Month! Congratulations to our 2009 Internet Safety Winners! Click on the link to watch their videos. Kindergarten - Mrs. Stuppi's Super Safe Stars 1st - 2nd Grade - Mrs. Piffner's Snow White and The Cyber Bully 3rd - 4th Grade - Mrs. Josias' Internet Safety Rap 5th - 6th Grade - Mrs. Stack's Internet Safety Patrol 7th - 8th Grade - Mr. Hayman's Media Maniacs 9th - 12th Grade - Jeri Arnold's Team Awesome Parents - download free ParentCare software. This is a free software program designed to help you safeguard your teen who may be using a MySpace account. This software will help you determine if your teen has a MySpace profile as well as validate the age, username and l

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Comprehensive article up about iPhone Video. It covers what kind of formats the iPhone will read and produce and an explanation for how this came to be; also included is a mini-glossary of key video terms, and a graphic list of video converting tools such as Handbrake, iSquint, and Videora, ConvertTube, and MPEG streamclip. The article also gives links for how to record TV shows and convert them to various file formats, and links for how to convert home videos (recorded on your own camcorder.)

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"Making citation easy. Cite and store books or journal references. Add books automatically from amazon book pages. Cite books, journals and sites with this handy little extension. Leave a message if you found it useful or if there are any more features you'd like to see. FEATURES * Cite books, journals and websites (More to come). * Automatically formats references to the correct style. * Have the references stored in your browser. * Automatically retrieve and store references from any amazon.com book page. The source link is stored for later viewing."

"The National Archives holds many records that tell the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of that day, we've gathered links from across our blogs and on Tumblr to show you some of these moving documents that we hold in safekeeping."

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"Welcome to this first in a series of PBL Mania Posts. For the next few weeks I am celebrating Project Based Learning by hosting a webinar at Edtech Leaders Online, and by presenting a PBL session at the NICE Conference in Chicago. In this post I will introduce you to some awesome places on the web containing some of the very best PBL resources. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe to this 21centuryedtech Blog by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. "

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FlackCheck.org identifies recurrent deceptive techniques in the 2012 campaign season. They are: Deceptive Audio, Deceptive Dramatization, Deceptive Framing, Glass House Attacks, Guilt by Association, Hearing What's Not Said, Misappropriating the Credibility of News, Misplaced Referent, Out of Context, Photoshopping, Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Restrictive Definition, Seeing What's Not Heard, and Visual Vilification. The Patterns of Deception page provides illustrations of each and links to FlackCheck.org videos that debunk the deceptive moves containing them.

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"The Internet is a fantastic source of facts, but also a source of dubious claims and misinformation. Here we offer our observations on which sites are generally reliable and unbiased, and which are not." Links to Federal government, NGOs and advocacy groups We've sorted the sites into three baskets: * The Official Word - Sites where you can find government statistics and official reports and documents. * Policy Wonks - Sites of non-governmental organizations that study issues, though not always from a neutral point of view. * For the Cause - Sites that offer information while also advocating a particular stance on a policy matter. We've indicated some of our favorites with a , and put a by some that we think you should be wary of."

"The eruption of the volcano in Iceland may present teachers with an opportunity to combine lessons in science and current events. The list below contains five resources for learning about volcanoes in general. If you're looking for links specifically about the volcano in Iceland, Larry Ferlazzo has a good list going."

"Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links"

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