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Grok Your Research
Our students become more proficient in content area knowledge through the development of research skills. One tool that helps students to find, explore, take notes and organize information from a search is InstaGrok. By creating a teacher account, you’ll be … Continue reading
Curating Content with Symbaloo
Educators are great curators! We know how to pick the best ideas that other teachers have shared, and how to pick the best resources for our classroom instruction. Symbaloo is a tool that will help you to bring the best … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Plans, Science, Social Studies
Tagged Common Core, Curating Content, Symbaloo
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Curating Content for the Classroom
Since the earliest days of the Internet, we’ve been sharing web resources via the simple hyperlink. We share links via email, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and QR Code among others. Our links are related to our personal interests, our occupations, things … Continue reading
Posted in Social Classroom
Tagged Common Core, Curating Content, Curation, Curriculum Development, Jog the Web, SMART Board Resources
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Put a Pin In It!
Pinterest is fast becoming one of the most popular social media sites on the web for curating content. Pinterest is much like a bulletin board where you can “pin” images from sites you find on the web to boards that … Continue reading
New York Times Learning Network
On Monday and Wednesday, we took a look at two sites that support students’ access to resources for informational text. Today, we’re taking a look at another site for teachers to consider: the New York Times Learning Network. While the … Continue reading
Posted in ELA, Literacy
Tagged Common Core, Informational Text, Learning Network, New York Times
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Curiosity…
In Monday’s blog post, we took a look at Wonderopolis in connection with the Common Core Standards and the use of informational text in instruction. For those who are working with students at the high school level, and already dealing … Continue reading
Posted in ELA, Literacy
Tagged Common Core, Curiosity.com, Discovery Channel, Interactive Lessons
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It’s a Wonder!
Wonderopolis is a great site, not only to provide students with non-fiction content, but to help build background knowledge and connections to other learning. Each day, a “wonder” is published containing these three sections: A related video Questions to focus students’ … Continue reading
Mirror, Mirror on the… Interactive Whiteboard
Register for our free webinar on using the iPad in the classroom, Wednesday, December 14 at 4 PM ET. With so many teachers now using iPads in their classroom, a frequent question that comes up is, “Can I project my iPad on … Continue reading
Drop it To me
DropBox is a great tool for saving your files in a place that will allow you to retrieve them from any computer or mobile device (check out our webinar on organizing your computer). Sharing files with your students is as easy as … Continue reading
A Little Bird Told Me
Digital storytelling has become more prominent in our schools in the past few years. Software such as PhotoStory 3, Windows MovieMaker, or iMovie have made the process relatively easy. Online tools are also available making it quite easy to publish student work … Continue reading
