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Sunday Sweets: Butterbeer Cupcakes » amyBITES
Today’s project? Butterbeer cupcakes in honor Harry Potter! Using this recipe: http://t.co/TRpHYaj
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All sizes | QR Code Periodic Table with Symbols | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
“@TechSmithEDU: Cool! Periodic table of elements as QR codes. Scan a code to see a video about that element. http://t.co/SvjGpbl #edtech”
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Free Technology for Teachers: Google Maps for Educators – A How-to Guide
New Post: Google Maps for Educators – A How-to Guide: http://t.co/mTJ1mbm
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All Principals Should Be Tech Savvy | Powerful Learning Practice
RT @NMHS_Principal: Awesome post by @l_hilt “All Principals Should be Tech Savvy” http://bit.ly/oty9Ym #cpchat #edchat
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The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator – Create your own fun newspaper
Generate newspaper clippings with your own headlines and stories. Would be great for school projects and blogs.
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Rafe Esquith and The Hobart Shakespeareans Official Website
Rafe Esquith’s elementary school students embody best practices for Shakespeare.
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Writer Unboxed » When a Character Won’t Cooperate
Karen Essex, author of Dracula in Love, describes what she did when her version of Mina Harker refused to cooperate with her plans and how she resolved this problem in her writing.
Category Archives: Delicious and Diigo
Diigo Links (weekly)
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RevQuest Colonial Williamsburg Summer
Colonial Williamsburg’s Revolution Quest: http://t.co/7CfeZMa #gaming #education #edtech
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How to create iOS device home screen icons for websites — Apple News, Tips and Reviews
Instructions for creating an iOS icon for your website.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Create Fake Facebook Profiles for Historical Characters
Three Ways to Create Fake Facebook Profiles for Historical Characters | Free Technology for Teachers: http://hoki.es/iSbdMs
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Amazon.com: Memories of the Future – Volume 1 eBook: Wil Wheaton: Kindle Store
Happy July! You can now stream every episode of TNG on Netflix … and read along with Memories of the Future Volume 1 http://t.co/WbDQdHR
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Bedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching Composition » Blog Archive » QR Codes for Composition Teachers
My offering on “QR Codes for Composition Teachers”: http://bit.ly/ipR2oI
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RT @amandacdykes: RT @CuyArtsC: Museum uses QR codes. Scan w/smartphones to make exhibits more interactive, http://ow.ly/4Zdyu
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My Tech Integration page (embed in lessons when appropriate) http://bit.ly/9AB2tS #edchat #elemchat
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Legendary 'East Egg' estate demolished | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Gatsby’s mansion is demolished. I feel as if green lights are winking out on piers all over the world. http://bit.ly/eZ1hvT
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SMARTnotebook Quick Tip: Random Generators
SMARTnotebook Quick Tip: Random Generators http://goo.gl/fb/pEkr1
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Lands End, Mansion of 'Gatsby' Lore, to Be Razed – NYTimes.com
Daisy’s Green Light Fades to Black http://bit.ly/gXgxrd
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PREPARING FOR COLLEGE. – View Article – NYTimes.com
These darn kids know nothing and are not prepared for college! Oh way, this is an op/ed from 1874 saying that: http://bit.ly/fIBCaK
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No two people ever read the same book.
No two people ever read the same book.
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My SMARTBoard page (with subject links): http://bit.ly/4nL3Lx
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Fake iPhone Text: http://bit.ly/h90CXx This would make a great literary character activity!
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POETRY PAIRINGS – The Learning Network Blog – NYTimes.com
English teachers, are you using our #poetry pairings? News + Poetry = Literacy Goodness http://nyti.ms/dkQNVm
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Updated My QR Code Livebinder: http://bit.ly/igrdLh #edtech
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Oh me too! I just read a YA historical about Princ
@danamhuff Oh me too! I just read a YA historical about Princess Victoria and her plucky maid. Prisoners of the Palace. M. MacColl.
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Plagiarism checking tools – http://bit.ly/fjF20Q
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Free Flash Jeopardy Review Game
Make a fun review jeopardy game to end the semester Free Jeopardy Game Maker http://ow.ly/3qg85
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I can tell what an amazing teacher you are just ba
@danamhuff I can tell what an amazing teacher you are just based on this hour of discussion. Thanks for guiding us. #engchat
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SCC ENGLISH: The BBC Hamlet Archive
Actors and directors talk about ‘Hamlet’ (BBC Archive): http://bit.ly/ggJe7E
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Searching for Margaret Mitchell in Atlanta at Frommer’s
Great article on Atlanta points of interest related to Margaret Mitchell: http://bit.ly/fGyZk7 (via @visitatlantaga)
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Tech Rav: Top Ten Free Educational Technology Applications I Learned (More) About at #ISTE11
Free technology apps and their applications for education.
Diigo Links (weekly)
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Integrating Art and Social Studies | TechIntersect
Bill discusses cross-curricular studies and issues a challenge.
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Teaching the Civil War with Technology. Ideas for teaching the Civil War
Lesson plans, tools, tips, and strategies for teaching the American Civil War.
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Middle/High School iPad Apps » TeachEng.us
Great list of of iPad (some are also iPod Touch and iPhone) apps appropriate for use in middle and high school classes and organized by subject matter.
Diigo Links (weekly)
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Ms. Prince’s LiveBinder gathers resources for Technology in Education.
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Reuven Werber’s Hebrew LiveBinder.
Diigo Links (weekly)
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Many educators find Twitter a useful tool | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/18/2011
Menoo Rami, host of #engchat on Twitter, is profiled in this article about how teachers use Twitter to interact and learn.
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BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker – MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian – Free
Bibliography creator for books, magazines, newspapers, websites, journals, and films that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian.
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This case could be the one that clarifies what is considered fair use for educational purposes.
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Hollywood Spurs Surge in Computer Science Majors – NYTimes.com
Computer science is becoming popular in colleges.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer
Richard Byrne’s list of resources to try out over the summer for use in the classroom come fall.
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Writer Unboxed » The Pubbed Writer’s 7 Deadly Sins
Therese Walsh has some good advice (and reminders) for published writers.
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Students Becoming Curators of Information | Langwitches Blog
Silvia Tolisano explains how students can become curators and outlines tools that are good for the purpse.
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Kathy Schrock’s – Google Blooms Taxonomy
Kathy Schrock sorts Google tools according to level of questioning on Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy.
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“The Extreme Presentation method is a step-by-step approach for designing presentations of complex or controversial information in ways that drive people to action.”
Diigo Links (weekly)
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Glenda teaches us how to teach students to mimic one of the masters of prose—Jane Austen. Mimicry is often a great writing exercise for students who need to examine style.
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Introducing appointment slots in Google Calendar – Official Gmail Blog
Instructions and suggestions for using Google Calendar to create appointment time slots.
Diigo Links (weekly)
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 12 Reasons to Blog with Your Students
Vicki shares a great list of reasons why we should blog with students, enabling them to make connections with themselves and students around the world.
Diigo Links (weekly)
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Steven Anderson’s QR Code Livebinder, a collection of QR Code resources.
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: QR Code Classroom Implementation Guide
Vicki Davis’s guide to implementing QR Codes in the classroom.
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Desktop QR Code Reader | dansl
QR Code readers are readily available for smart phones, but this is the first one I’ve seen that uses your computer’s webcam. Great for times when you want to look at sites that use flash or for people who cannot use a smart phone.
Diigo Links (weekly)
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YouTube – theproselytizer’s Channel
Robbing the Bard: The story of how a stolen Shakespeare First Folio appeared in the Folger Shakespeare Library. Scroll down to the playlist “Stealing…” Narrated by David Tennant.
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Why Shakespeare never fails to get brains buzzing | Books | The Observer
Reading Shakespeare makes you smarter!
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Not Even Past | “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner
History website from the University of Texas at Austin.
Diigo Links (weekly)
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King Lear and Medicare Politics
This article on the blog Better Living Through Beowulf might be an interesting way to connect King Lear to modern politics.