teachersintiaras:

A free app on the Common Core Standards! I’m so excited! My nerd is showing! (Discovered via @EduMajorProblem)

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educationrethink:

A little grid about online collaboration.

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infoneer-pulse:

How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

adventuresinlearning:

I have been collecting powerful and useful education blogs over the last few years, here are some of them! Enjoy!

•  A Better Education  
• A Space for Learning 
• Birth of a School
•   Bridging Differences
• Cooperative Catalyst
• Deborah Meier’s Blog…

ATTN All education majors, student teachers, and current teachers! This website is easier to use than the PortaPortal you created or will create in Tech’n’Ed. If you haven’t had this class yet-or something like it, or have but want something easier, try Linkable. Much easier to use, navigate, and input bookmarks and organize. Click the link below to get started! It will import all the bookmarks you have. Just follow the steps!

two weeks down, but only six days in the classroom. still am learning a lot about myself as a teacher and what i will accept in my classroom, and what won’t fly. mostly, the things that i won’t accept are just pet peeves and things student need know they are doing when they might not be aware of that. student teaching has been a whirlwind so far, and tomorrow starts week three of twelve weeks in the classroom. i think i am supposed to take over 8th period this week, but we will see if that happens. i think having my cooperating teacher gone this past week on vacation really let me experiment on what works for me without her watching me. week three shall be interesting since it is also my first full week, monday through friday, in the classroom.

classroomchaos:

I think this is the best one I have seen…

this website was composed by the technology professor at my university. it has anything and everything technology, links, videos, statistics and resources to help implement technology into your classroom. smartboard resources, ipad, ipod, different sites for student interaction. this site will be taken down this fall however to make room for a new site.

curiositiesbydickens:

My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:

Avoid alliteration. Always.

Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)

Employ the vernacular.

Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

Parenthetical remarks (however…

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theteachersdesk:

As students progress through school, they are asked to read increasingly complex informational and graphical texts in their courses. The ability to understand and use the information in these texts is key to a student’s success in learning.

Successful students have a repertoire of…

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theteachersdesk:

1. Character Astrology Signs
2. Heroes and Superheros
3. Create a Childhood for a character
4. Critique from the point of view of a specific organization
5. Social workers report
6. College application
7.  School counselor’s recommendation letter
8.  Talk show invitation
9.  Radio exchange
10.  Movie recommendations
11.  Create a home page
12.  Chat room conversations
13.  E-mail directory
14.  Title acrostic
15.  Cartoon squares
16.  Word collage
17.  Yearbook entries
18.  Letter exchange
19.  Awards
20. Talk show on issues in the novel
21.  Dream vacation
22. Scrapbook 
23. Photos or magazine pictures
24. Music
25. Poetry
26. Twenty questions
27. File a complaint 
28. Tangible or intangible gifts
29.  Talk to the author
30. Point of view column
31. Character monologues 
32. Make up a word test for the novel
33. Answering machine message
34. Found poems
35. Name analysis
36. A character’s fears
37. Current events
38. Advertisements
39. A pamphlet 
40. Draw a scene
41. New acquaintances 
42. Book choices for character
43. Community resources for characters
44. Family history
45. Detective work
46. The dating game
47.  Create a character’s room
48. CD collection
49. Photo album
50. A character alphabet 

kbkonnected:

#elemchat #spedchat #literacy

I found some really neat ideas here.

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