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• Connect Safely |Online Safety 3.0: Empowering and Protecting Youth | Commentaries – Staff

  Both the Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly changing, but Internet safety messages change very slowly if at all. A few years ago, some of us in the Net safety community started talking about how to adjust our messaging for the much more interactive “Web 2.0.” And we did so, based on the latest research as it emerged. But even those messages are starting to get a bit stale….

  Now it’s time for Online Safety 3.0.

  tags: safety, onlinesafety, internetsafety

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• Discovery Box Homepage

  Welcome to Discovery Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the discovery boxes submitted by others.

  tags: box, project, collection, digitalbox

• Hathi Trust Digital Library

  Digitized collection of materials created through a teaming with Google Books project. You can search full-text or limited version only.

  tags: research, digitalresearch, english, google, reference

• Video – SMART Notebook 10.0 – Page Recording

  This video demonstrates how to use the recording feature in SMART Notebook 10.

  tags: smart, recording, smartnotebook, notebook

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• Learning Clip for Elementary Math

  Learning Clip is an online resource for teaching primary maths. There are hundreds of interactive activities, video clips and worksheets covering a huge range of mathematical topics, concepts and methods.

  tags: math, elementary

• Google Image Swirl

  An image search that provides a mind-map type result.  Click the main image and you are shown images that are similar.

  tags: images, google, digitalimages, image, photos

• VocabSushi: The better way to build your vocabulary | Contextual Examples From the Daily News

  “We’ve built the smartest online vocabulary program and are giving it away! “

  tags: vocabulary, literacy, languagearts, english

• World Languages Homework Help

  Links to pages with resources for different languages (French, German, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish)

  tags: Worldlanguage, French, German, Latin, Spanish, Arabic, Greek

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• Stykz – The first multi-platform stick figure animation program

  Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program in the world (as far as we know!), and it is COMPLETELY FREE!
  If you’ve ever used Pivot StickFigure Animator, you’ll feel right at home and will appreciate the extra features that Stykz has to offer!
  And even if you haven’t used Pivot, you’ll find Stykz to be a powerful, easy to learn tool for creating great looking stick figure animations quickly and efficiently.

  tags: stickfigure, animation, free

• Have Fun Teaching

  Thousands of Free Worksheets, Printables, Coloring Pages, Flash Cards, Songs for Kids, Educational Videos, Fun Activities, Thematic Units, Teacher Tools, and Lesson Plans for Teachers!

  tags: teachermaterials, printables, coloring, flashcards, videos, songs, activities, teachertools

• Free Online Lesson Planbook Software for Teachers of All Grade Levels

  The Easier Way To Get Plans Done.
  Stop wasting time with lesson plan templates. Your plans are available anywhere and are simple to make.

  Attach files, check spelling, print, export to Word or PDF, share with colleagues.

  tags: lessonplans, planning, planbook

• Learn.Genetics (TM)

  A great Genetics website!

  tags: genetics, biology, anatomy, science

• WorldLanguages21stcentury

  This is a place to collaborate and communicate on how our 21st century students can participate in the world community using the many tools of technology. Request to join and add your sites, blogs, wikis, tools. Let’s collaborate to help each other help our students.

  Like so many of you language teachers I am a proud member of ACTFL. They provide teachers with so many resources, represent us in many venues and advocate for the issues pertaining to us, our professional and our students

  tags: worldlanguage, wiki

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• LoTi Framework at drchrismoersch.com

  n 1994, Dr. Christopher Moersch developed the Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) scale in an effort to accurately measure authentic classroom technology use. This scale focuses on the use of technology as an interactive learning medium because this particular component has the greatest and lasting impact on classroom pedagogy and is the most difficult to implement and assess. The challenge is not merely to use technology to achieve isolated tasks (e.g., word processing a research paper, creating a multimedia slide show, browsing the Internet), but rather to integrate technology in an exemplary manner that supports purposeful problem-solving, performance-based assessment practices, and experiential learning–all vital characteristics of the Target Technology level established by the CEO Forum on Education and Technology.

  tags: loti, techintegration, techmatrix

• Web 2.0 Literacy Tools Master List

  A very well organized list of 100 web tools, listed by category.

  tags: web2.0, literacy, writing, reading, languagearts, professionaldevelopment

• Learning Tools Directory : Over 3,000 tools listed

  tags: tools, resources, webtools, web2.0, professionaldevelopment

• NEA – You Cheat: Savvy educators offer advice for keeping kids honest.

  What goes on in the mind of a cheating student? Most educators would love to peek inside those young brains to see what motivates the eye wandering or cell-phone sneaking, in an attempt to prevent it.

  Researcher and expert on cheating Eric Andermann, director of Ohio State University’s School of Education Policy and Leadership, has found that the goal that students are encouraged to work toward significantly affects whether they cheat or not.

  tags: cheating, professionaldevelopment

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• Data Interaction for Pennsylvania Student Assessments

  This site is designed to provide quick, easy and secured access to student performance results on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) and the Pennsylvania Alternative System of Assessment (PASA). On this site, you will find a wealth of information at your fingertips in a highly interactive and flexible format.

  tags: PSSA, emetric, data

• Digital Dialects language learning

  The Digital Dialects website features free to use interactive games for learning languages.

  tags: no_tag

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• Google Sky

  Like Google Earth, but for astronomy!

  tags: Google, googlesky, astronomy

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• Readability

  Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. Follow the steps below to install READABILITY in Web browser.

  tags: readability, reading, tools, bookmarklet, web

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• Lexipedia – Where words have meaning

  A really cool visual dictionary, thesaurus, vocabulary website that gives results as a web/mind-map. Users can click to find different parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms and more.

  tags: dictionary, visualization, vocabulary, language_arts, english, reference

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

  “The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

  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.”

  tags: GoogleWave, google, wave, howto

• 50 Educational Apps for the iPod Touch | U Tech Tips

  tags: iPodtouch, ipod, iphone, educational, itouch

• TeachingWithContests.com

  The purpose of Teaching with Contests is to assist educators in finding contests that can be used in the classroom to motivate students. We are here for the student and the teacher not the promotion of products or company public relations. Our goal is to select contests and programs whose primary goal is education and secondarily business/product promotion.

  tags: contests, professionaldevelopment, pd, teaching

• The First Thanksgiving – You Are the Historian – Online Learning Center

  Awesome interactive website for elementary and middle school for Thanksgiving.

  tags: thanksgiving, holidays, interactive, socialstudies, social_studies

• The First Thanksgiving Student Activities for Grades PreK-12 | Scholastic.com

  “They spent two months at sea to reach a strange new world, and barely survived once they got there.

  Learn how the Pilgrims reached America and lived to celebrate the
  first Thanksgiving”

  tags: thanksgiving, holidays, interactive, socialstudies, social_studies

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• Addictomatic: Inhale the Web

  Instantly create a custom page with the latest buzz on any topic

  tags: search, aggregator, web2.0, news, tools, rss

• Educational Leadership:Multiple Measures:Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards

  “The study results indicated that, in general, using interactive whiteboards was associated with a 16 percentile point gain in student achievement. This means that we can expect a student at the 50th percentile in a classroom without the technology to increase to the 66th percentile in a classroom using whiteboards.”

  tags: iwb, research, teaching, whiteboards, smartboard

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