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activities for teens and children explore reading and writing away from school hours

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Geographical Media is a news monitoring tool designed to make it easy to follow news and find statistics about the people, places and other things you are most interested in. We read thousands of news articles a day from news sources from all around the world and identify who, what and where they are about.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology.

Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways. Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom. Read below to learn how you can take advantage of the power of Skype in your classroom.

Contemporary photographs, dramatised diary readings and interviews with veterans exploring key themes of World War One.

Essay Map is a handy tool from the folks at Read Write Think. Essay Map provides students with step by step guidance in the construction of an informational essay. Some students seem to struggle most with constructing an introduction and conclusion to their essays. Essay Map is particularly good for helping students visualize the steps needed to construct good introductory and conclusion paragraphs.

J.ot Down is a simple Internet-based notepad. Here are some simple instructions: 1) Open j.otdown.com in your browser. 2) Start typing. 3) Pause for a moment (or hit "Save") and J.ot Down will save your note and give you a permanent link for it (as seen in your browsers location bar) 4) Continue to edit your note or share it (or a read-only version) with your friends. 5) Bookmark your note for later access or just start another one.

blog by a teacher in an all boy's school. How to make boys readersed

YUDU is an ePublishing library and marketplace that lets you read, publish, buy, sell and share digital content.

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The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise. What you read and see here is a beginning -- we will continue to add and update information as it becomes available. We solicit contributions from our colleagues in the history of science and comments on how we can improve the project from everyone, particularly suggestions on how to make this tool more useful in primary and secondary education.

Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave, and follow us on Twitter for updates and Wave tips.

word clouds, which are downloadable as JPG

short videos explaining parts of books. Many listed, many coming, good for ELA and academic support

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