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The features on this Web site enable educational communities to: * Browse primary sources that teachers have used with students. * Teach primary source-based learning experiences from the Teaching Materials Collection. * Design learning experiences using MyPortfolio. * Share discoveries with others through field-testing and publishing. * Use our professional development programs to uncover the breadth and depth of LOC.gov resources. * Learn through primary source-based online activities and samples of student projects. * Create digital documentaries using University of Virginia's Primary Access or make a handout for students.

The goal of the Project is to create a digital video case library, with accompanying professional development resources, that illustrates exemplary practices in inclusive instructional settings.

Generate vocabulary lists from any text that you can digitally copy. Paste any chunk of text, up to 200,000 characters, into the Vocab Grabber. The Vocab Grabber then sorts, and places in a word cloud, the most frequently used words in that text.

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Western Massachusetts Writing Project Technology Team (4/2009) Presentation.

Blog post about powerful web resources that have the power to engage students using digital tools and the desire today's youth have to express themselves, all while using the increasing amount of primary source materials available online.

What are Siftables? Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.

It's a free library of digital content to read and explore. Find eBooks, magazines, and other documents as well as photos, music and podcasts and bookmarks and add them to your own library.\n\nCreate your own interest groups and join other people's, to share your passions, experiences and knowledge with like-minded users.\n\nIt's a place where you can publish your expertise and creative work online, to promote, share or sell to the world.\n\nAt the heart of YUDU is an award winning multimedia publishing system that brings together the power of the written word, video, audio and images.

Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12. CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.

Standing up, Not Standing By: A Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators

"At Google, we support the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you'll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation. "

"He said support from parents was essential in tackling all forms of bullying, including cyber bullying using mobile phones or social networking websites such as Facebook. "There's a tendency for parents to outsource responsibility to schools, which I don't think is helpful," Dr Carr-Gregg told reporters. Families needed to consider drawing up internet use "contracts" outlining what was acceptable and unacceptable behaviour online, he said."

This is a good explanation about the trail of data on the web, what some call our footprint, that each of us have. It would be good for teaching internet safety.