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"And welcome to the Wikispace where you can share and enjoy stories written by and for teachers and learners of French, German and Spanish. At the last count, we had 51 Storybird creations, contributed by 13 different authors in 3 different languages."

"A Year 1 teacher uses animals to help children to become aware of stages in the story-writing process."

Your writing partner, helping you write a story from beginning to the end. Nice resource for writing

Youngzine is a one-of-a-kind Web site where children can learn about current news and events shaping their world -- in a simple, engaging and interactive manner. Our goal is to help parents and educators create a vibrant community of globally aware young citizens in an increasingly connected world. Along with news stories written specifically with our young audience in mind, Youngzine strives to inform using fun trivia, compelling visuals and videos. Youngzine is more than a passive website; it is a community of children, parents and teachers who recognize the importance of living in this highly interconnected age where our actions have far reaching impact. Children are encouraged to express their views, submit articles, book reviews or travelogues, and all content is moderated by the editorial team.

The Biography Maker is like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam" to make it work well. The Biography Maker is meant to inspire lively story telling and vivid writing which will make your readers want to know more about your subject.

At Teaching Channel we believe what makes teachers inspiring is how they became experts -- the hours and years they've dedicated to improving their craft to benefit their students. Our mission is to capture their technique on video so that all teachers -- new or seasoned -- have a place to find inspiration. Of course you could just lean back and admire great stories, but we also provide tools to take a few notes, trade ideas, and even build your own personal workspace. And because we know teaching is not one-size-fits-all, we tailored our technology so you can find what works best for you.

"This year marks the tenth anniversary of September 11th, 2001. Discovery Education is committed to teaching today's students about the communities, the stories, and the resiliency represented by Americans most impacted by the tragic events of that day. Join us as we engage students the world over with curricular content, lesson plans, and webcasts presented in partnership with Tribute WTC Visitor Center."

Learn about architecture around the world including how the St. Louis Gateway Arch was built, Hoover Dam, famous architects, and stories about the people who built them. There are sites with lesson plans on how to teach students to draw floor plans, make blue prints, and draw their own architectural plans. Also included are several pictures of famous structures, lists of architecture books, and glossaries of words.

Just to prove it can be done, I am going to try and tell the same story as an example for every tool in the list.

Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. Since launching this site, our videos have been watched more than 5.5 million times. But we're not finished yet. We've started updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments.

As citizens of a highly technological culture, our students see (and often use) technologies as a daily experience. Because of their proliferation, these technologies become are often taken for granted and unexplored. This lesson plan asks students to pay attention to these technologies explicitly. In this activity, students brainstorm lists of their interactions with technology, map these interactions graphically, and then compose narratives of their most significant interactions with technology. By writing these technology autobiographies, students explore what their stories reveal about why we use the technologies we do when we choose to use them.

Web 2.0 Tools for Educators Home Web 2.0 is a cool buzzword floating around, but its meaning has become somewhat diluted and obscured like a spoken story handed down from generation to generation. So many people limit their thinking of Web 2.0 to blogs and wikis, but it's so much more.

Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality - and unreality - of race. The story of race is complex and may challenge how we think about race and human variation, about the differences and similarities among people.

This blog is not officially affiliated with Google. Google Earth Blog is dedicated to sharing the best news, interesting sights, technology, and happenings for Google Earth. You will find the most amazing and interesting Google Earth news stories and content you can download right off the site. Learn how to take data from your GPS, map it into Google Earth, and share it with friends or the world. Learn when new releases of Google Earth come out, hear about new technologies and features, or check out the links to dozens of other Google Earth web sites.

Fuzia brings to you the biggest International Contest which will make your way to be recognized as an International photographer. Participate on Fuzia by uploading your originally clicked Photographs on theme 'Nature's Beauty'

Short 15 second videos that students watch and then draw graphs. Great for intros to graphing, algebra, pre-algebra, etc

GREAT List and summary of storybook creation tools

"Let's consider some activities that allow a student to show understanding of a book and that might be enjoyable. This selection of activities is also intended to meet the needs of different kinds of learners -- or to contribute to the development of skills beyond writing. I often allowed students choice in deciding how they wanted to respond to a book -- they could choose from a list like the one below."

A nice list of places for reading in grades K-3.

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