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Through our interactive projects, journals, games and publications, this treasure trove from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages with affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and sense of fun, and words of comfort and healing." />s Make Beliefs, make beliefs for children, make beliefs for adults, make belief, make beliefs cartoons, make beliefs comics by Bill Zimmerman

MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

scripted curricula "Navigate stormy middle-school seas with the Second Step program. The program teaches empathy and communication, emotion-management and coping skills, and decision making. These skills help students stay engaged in school, make good choices, set goals, and avoid peer pressure, substance abuse, bullying, and cyber bullying."

This looks like a great resource for teaching movie making to elementary students: "Check out the Me and My Movie feature on Children's BBC. This interactive site offers the amateur filmmaker in your classroom all kinds of videos and written instructions-plotting advice, camera techniques, lighting, etc. Trying all these short tutorials together is the Movie-Making Guide, which helps the student to plan out the entire process" (from Instructify)

"YoYo Games has grown to be the world's largest user generated game site with over 25,000 games. Employing a web 2.0 community model YoYo Games allows users to "Play, Make and Share games" for free. "

"MYLO is an exciting online language learning service that links your favourite interests with things you like doing on the internet - like playing games, creating blogs and movies, and sharing and working with others - making learning languages exciting and fun! It isn't just about passing exams. Learning a language can help you make new friends, find your perfect job, travel the world and experience new cultures. From music to sport and fashion to film, languages can help with whatever you want to do. Learn a language French, German, Spanish and Chinese."

"9 digital book-making tools A survey of tools for creating apps and ebooks."

"Making Teacher Evaluations Meaningful: Charlotte Danielson " This is part of CT's SEED

Dvolver creates creativity tools. Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Our MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. Or, post it to your website or myspace page. (Description from the site)

"Here's an article by BIE that appeared in the September 2010 issue of Educational Leadership magazine from ASCD. Good for general audiences as well as educators, it explains the essential elements that make rigorous PBL different from "doing projects.""

"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."

"When you recognize a word's prefix, you can make a better guess at the meaning of a new word. Or as our new prefix video says, "Prefixes…It's like a remix, it changes things." By the end of this prefix lesson plan, students will be able to recognize the meanings of common prefixes, use the prefixes to determine meanings of words, and then play a prefixes game where they invent new words using prefixes. Prefix Lesson Plan"

Langwitches has done a great job in coming up with a  list of great educational iPad apps organized into categories with different headings. The only thing that is missing in his work and which if he had paid attention to would have made his work even  way greater is to make the app images clickable. Instead of clicking on any app name to access it you will have to type its name in Google or iTunes store to find it.

"GoogleGuide" making searching even easier

Kids enjoy animation, with AnimateStar kids can learn the basics of animation using a 40 frame easy to use interface. Animations can be as short as 2 frames or as long as 40 frames. Kids can save too! Starters- try to animate a ball bouncing around. Pros - try to recreate a scene from your favorite book! HINT: Use the "SHOW PREVIOUS FRAME" button to help you make your animation.

"Law Day 2012 Video Contest Your students can enter the Connecticut Bar Association's (CBA) Law Day Contest for a chance to win a Nikon digital/video camera for your school. Law Day is a national effort to inform citizens about the importance of law and the role it plays in our everyday lives. Participation in the Law Day Video Contest is easy and educational. The Law Day 2012 theme focuses on "No Court, No Justice, No Freedom". With this national theme the Connecticut Bar Association would like to bring to Connecticut the third Law Day Video Contest. There are two categories: Middle school (grades 6-8) and High School (grades 9-12). Students are asked to make a three to five minute video that answers the following question: How would society be affected if there were no courts - therefore affecting justice and our ability to be free? Rules: *There are two categories: Category 1 is a video contest for grades 6-8. Category 2 is a video contest for grades 9-12"

"Code Year Make your New Year's resolution learning to code. Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you'll be building apps and web sites before you know it. "

"In this module, students will discover the secrets to developing good credit habits and learn how long it can take to pay off a credit card balance. The objectives are to pay off credit card debt, maintain a good credit rating by making payments on time and accumulate as many consumer goods and services as possible without running up credit card debt."

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