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Submit writing to be analyzed
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"Six awesome courses in one awesome channel: John Green teaches you US History and Hank Green teaches you Chemistry. Check out the playlists for past courses in World History, Biology, Literature, and Ecology."
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Google Guides for Teachers | A Listly List
and edublogger
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The Daily Create - Daily assignments to fuel your creativity
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Free Technology for Teachers: Find Science Lesson Plans, Videos, and Animations on BioInteractive
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Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online | Video on TED.com
"By the end of this talk, there will be 864 more hours of video on YouTube and 2.5 million more photos on Facebook and Instagram. So how do we sort through the deluge? At the TEDSalon in London, Markham Nolan shares the investigative techniques he and his team use to verify information in real-time, to let you know if that Statue of Liberty image has been doctored or if that video leaked from Syria is legitimate. The managing editor of Storyful.com, Markham Nolan has watched journalism evolve from the pursuit of finding facts to the act of verifying those floating in the ether"
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How to get the most out of Google’s apps and services when using an iPad — Tech News and Analysis
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Are We Taking Our Students’ Work Seriously Enough? | MindShift
"Are We Wringing the Creativity Out of Kids?"
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Official willUstand website : Download FREE posters
Anti-Bullying posters
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Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup | Edutopia
"Resources by Topic: Internet Safety Cyberbullying Digital Responsibility Media and Digital Literacy Other Resources from Edutopia Additional Resources on the Web"
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Check Out That Selfie: How to Use Social Media in the Classroom - US News
"Check Out That Selfie: How to Use Social Media in the Classroom Fewer than 20 percent of teachers use social media in the classroom, although most do personally."
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Guest Post | Primary Sources Meet Free Web 2.0 Tools for Common Core Learning - NYTimes.com
"LiveBinders allow students to curate online resources and organize them into a digital binder. Users can upload and embed links, images, text and videos. This tool makes it easy for students to link to other sites and documents as they collect information, then helps them synthesize learning from primary and secondary sources, contextualize and interpret sources, and share their learning in a fun and interactive way."
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Turning Students into Good Digital Citizens -- THE Journal
"Schools have always been charged with the task of producing good citizens. But how has our definition of a "good citizen" changed over the ages?"
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10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation
"For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away. I’ve written before about how Google impacts the way students think. This post is less about students, and more about how planning resources like standards and curriculum maps might respond accordingly."
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Castilleja - an independent school for girls grades 6-12 in Palo Alto, California: Bourn Idea Lab
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13 Digital Citizenship Terms Teachers Need to Know ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
"a set of important terms you need to know as a teacher using technology with his/her students."
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Beyond Angry Birds, Five Apps That Test Your Physics Skills | MindShift
"Here are five other games for the Angry Birds fan that do an even better job of integrating physics and problem solving into addictive, just-one-more-try experiences."
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Official Gmail Blog: Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
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Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - NYTimes.com
"Once considered the product of genius or divine inspiration, creativity — the ability to spot problems and devise smart solutions — is being recast as a prized and teachable skill. Pin it on pushback against standardized tests and standardized thinking, or on the need for ingenuity in a fluid landscape."
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digitalwritingworkshop - Crafting_Digital_Writing
"A companion site to Troy's Heinemann books The Digital Writing Workshop and Crafting Digital Writing, this wiki empowers teachers as they learn how to teach digital writing."
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Stop Stealing Dreams (What is School for?)
School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s. It continues to do an excellent job at achieving this goal, but it's not a goal we need to achieve any longer. In this 30,000 word manifesto, I imagine a different set of goals and start (I hope) a discussion about how we can reach them. One thing is certain: if we keep doing what we've been doing, we're going to keep getting what we've been getting. Our kids are too important to sacrifice to the status quo.
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Student-Centered Ways to Teach Anti-Bullying: A Conversation Starter - Right Question Institute
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Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Embedding Twitter Searches on a Web Site
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How to showcase #TeacherEffectiveness using digital portfolios
Saturday, February 15, 2014
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