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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.
Tag Archives: diigo
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.
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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.
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Flash cards, vocabulary memorization, and study games | Quizlet
My students told me about this site where they make study guides and flash cards for themselves. It’s free, and it would be particularly good for studying information that you have to memorize.
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Glenda Funk shares some performance pedagogy techniques designed to get students out of their desk and on their feet.