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A plethora of writing resources to use with students.

ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom.

The student links in this site are provided for instructional purposes. it is my desire to help parents develop incentives and expertise by raising parent awareness of the curriculum and teaching/learning strategies. These links are also great as centers in the "one computer classroom".

Okay, you have created your master piece and burnt it to DVD using DVD SP or iDVD. As you only want this one copy and need hard drive space, you trashed the entire DVD project. Soon after, you find that you now need extra copies of the DVD (typical). What follows is the process for making DVD copies from any DVDs that are not Copyright protected. We will be using the Mac's Disk Utility application. This article has four sections and covers Leopard, Tiger, Panther and Jaguar.

Interactivate is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It is comprised of activIties, lessons, and discussions.

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.

For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way? Science is an active process of observation and investigation. Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? examines that process, revealing the ways in which ideas and information become knowledge and understanding. a case study in human origins In this case study in human origins, we explore how scientific evidence is being used to shape our current understanding of ourselves: What makes us human-and how did we get this way?

DOTGO is a brand new way to send and receive information by cell-phone text messaging. Use DOTGO to access your favorite companies, organizations, or web sites. Just send a text message starting with an internet domain name to the phone number DOTCOM (368266)-or to one of the phone numbers DOTEDU (368338), DOTGOV (368468), DOTNET (368638), or DOTORG (368674) as appropriate. Try it now!

GROU.PS is a social applications platform that gives you all the tools you need to keep your online community connected. More formally, we call our product a social groupware - some also call it DIY social network, or white label social network. But technically speaking, we prefer the term social operating system to describe what we do here. GROU.PS gives you a bunch of modules that you choose from and mash up very easily! You can enrich your site with blocks too; blocks allow you to copy/paste 3rd party widgets into your site.

Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world, the place where you´ll find millions of words pronounced in their original languages. Cool, isn´t it? Be a part of this cultural phenomenon now!

AsíSeHace.net is a free website from the Spanish Department at Nottingham High School with lots of interactive exercises to help you learn Spanish. Although this website is specifically designed to help GCSE and A Level students, it would be useful to absolutely anyone learning Spanish.

Precipitate lets you search for and launch the information you have stored in the cloud from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac. it currently supports the following services: * Google Docs * Google Bookmarks * Picasa Web Albums

Create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere, and share them with the world. With 280 Slides, there's no software to download and nothing to pay for - and when you're done building your presentation you can share it any way you like.

The Principles and Standards for School Mathematics outlines the essential components of a high-quality school mathematics program. it calls for and presents a common foundation of mathematics to be learned by all students. The Standards are a guide for focused, sustained efforts to improve students' school mathematics and were developed to do the following: * Set forth a comprehensive and coherent set of learning goals in mathematics for all students from pre‑K through grade 12 that will orient curricular, teaching, and assessment efforts during the next decades. * Serve as a resource for teachers, education leaders, and policymakers to use in improving mathematics instruction. * Guide the development of curriculum frameworks, assessments, and instructional materials. All Illuminations lessons and activities are designed in alignment with the Principles and Standards.

BookletCreator is a free online tool that allows you to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages, a small book is created.

After trying out Scribd to share my recent One Page Guide to Twitter I thought it might be handy to upload all the past guides. So - over here you will find all (currently 21) of the one page guides - including a new Blogging with Wordpress introduction and a guide to registering a domain name created as part of a series I'm working on for local campaigning organisations. Perhaps now it's time to work on a one page guide to Scribd…

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Collecta is not like other search engines. The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen. Give it a try.

Why is our first impulse to believe something that we see, read or hear? Especially if it is in print, online or comes in an "officially" looking packaging? How do we teach ourselves and our students, that another impulse has to follow the first one immediately: Evaluate…critical thinking… learn to listen for and to your own "gut feeling"… cross referencing…

My name is Sallie Ann. I was made in Gettysburg PA, and I'm named after the mascot of the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry from the Civil War. My job is to travel around the U.S. looking for Civil War battlefields or museums and schools learning about the Civil War. Along the way, I hope to teach kids more about the Civil War while also helping them to learn about using technology. I'll start out in Gettysburg, PA ,and learn about the battle that took place there. My visit to you will last about one week, but before I leave, I hope that you will put something from the battlefield, museum or your school in my backpack so I can keep it as a memento of my visit.

Evernote, more than any other application, is what keeps me productive, sane, and on-task. It helps me remember everything, helps me get things done, and has all manner of other purposes and uses in my life.