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“What if we viewed being smart as a goal that students could work toward rather than something they either are or are not?” — Ron Rittchardt
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- APA Research Style Crib Sheet
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- Live Binders--a great tool for almost everything!
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- The Chicago Manual of Style
- Turning Points
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Literacy Links
- 21st Century Literacy Links
- Adolescent Literarure (Great Site)
- Annenberg Media Fact Check (media literacy)
- Blog about Lucy Calkins
- Book Screening (book trailers)
- Bookbump (online location for your library that makes book suggestions
- Books Should Be Free (free audio downloads!)
- Brainstorm online
- Core Principles of Media Literacy
- Creaza--mindmaps and audio visual editor and cartoonist
- Critical Literacy - Good questions to ask the text
- Fountas and Pinnell leveled book site
- Google Lit Trips
- Great Books Foundation
- ipod inspired writing prompts
- Kiddie Records (Downloads of the classic kid records.)
- LibriVox Audio books in the public domain.
- Lightning Bug: your online writing partner!
- Literacy Org.
- Media Clearinghouse
- Media Literacy - amazing site!
- Melissa Forney - good ideas DO come out of Florida
- Mixbook for Educators (online and printed books)
- Mystery net--a place to practice inferring.
- New York Times Learning Network
- Project Look Sharp - with premade media literacy units
- Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University
- Short Stories online
- Starfall: GREAT phonics & early reading site.
- Story on line (stories read out loud by actors)
- Storybird: collaborative Online Storytelling
- Wealth of resources for anything LA
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Unit Planning Resources
- 5 Traits of Highly Effective Posters
- Atlas Curriculum Mapping
- Bloom's Question Construction Wheel
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- Education Oasis
- Free materials such as graphic organizers
- Glogster
- Habits of the Mind
- I-Search Paper
- Internet Movie Data Base
- Online mindmapping
- Powerful thinking tools from exploratree
- Read Write Think
- Slideshare REsources
- The Differentiator--Great tool for planning with Bloom's taxonomy.
- Thinkfinity
- Use the best search engine for the job.
- Visible Thinking
Tech Stuff
- Age of Exploration - Wet Paint
- Audacity Tutorial
- Beautiful word cloud site!
- Block Posters--print any image as large as you want it.
- Cool Tools for Schools - Amazing!
- DimDim Free webinar hosting
- Education on searching from Google
- Education Podcast Directory
- Getting Tricky With Wikis
- IA Tech Buzz
- Just One More Book
- Kid Cast
- Learn Wikis
- Learning in Hand
- Livebinder about google resources!
- Livebinder of search engines
- Mind mapping tool
- Online picture Customizing
- Publish Your Own Books
- Slide Share
- The Rasterbator (upload your image and print large high quality images)
- Tiny Uploads Shrink and Upload Photos for Embedding.
- Voice Threads at IA web site
- Web 2.0 tools for ed. in one place!
- Web of e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education!
- Wordle
- Zamzar--online file conversion (like pdf to jpeg)
Assessment
Miscellaneous, but Important, Websites
- Adolescent Brain Documentary
- Annenburg Media
- Brain Research
- Color Scheme Designer
- Doing what Works--research based education online
- Habits of the Mind
- IA ELL Wiki
- Internet Movie Data Base
- Learn to Be Healthy
- National Geographic Image Collection
- Super TEacher Tools (including jeapardy review games)
- Templates from Microsoft
Books I LOVE!
- Conventions, Etc.: Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson
- Conventions, Etc.: Mechanically Inclined
- Spelling: Strategic Spelling by Jonathan P. Wheatley
- Writing Across the Curriculum by William Zinsser
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Third song13 years ago
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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson12 years ago
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- Susan Stevens
- Although I live in Ecuador, my heart is with my family. I am married to a wonderful man; I love cooking, teaching, reading, writing, and Jesus Christ.