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Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask. 1.

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask

What can the URL tell you? Techniques for Web Evaluation : 1. Before you leave the list of search results -- before you click and get interested in anything written on the page -- glean all you can from the URLs of each page. Sign up, Sign in. Assessments, Homework, Videos, Games, Lesson Plans. Over a million resources aligned to Common Core, PARCC, SBAC, NGSS, TEKS.

Creating Color-Blind Accessible Figures. Today marks the start of the #1ineveryclassroom public awareness campaign by the UK-based Colour Blind Awareness organization to point out the prevalence of colorblindness and the need for greater awareness on the part of educators.

Creating Color-Blind Accessible Figures

There is tremendous variation in how individuals perceive and distinguish colors. These differences can be due to color vision deficiency or color blindness, as well as other medical conditions affecting the eyes or brain. Other factors such as device display settings, corrective lenses, and environmental lighting conditions can also affect the perception of color differences. The most common congenital forms of color blindness are deuteranopia and protanopia, the inability to distinguish red and green. PBS LearningMedia.

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Your Bookmarks and favorites in the cloud. Energy and Calm: Brain Breaks and Focused-Attention Practices. When presented with new material, standards, and complicated topics, we need to be focused and calm as we approach our assignments.

Energy and Calm: Brain Breaks and Focused-Attention Practices

We can use brain breaks and focused-attention practices to positively impact our emotional states and learning. They refocus our neural circuitry with either stimulating or quieting practices that generate increased activity in the prefrontal cortex, where problem solving and emotional regulation occur. Brain Breaks A brain break is a short period of time when we change up the dull routine of incoming information that arrives via predictable, tedious, well-worn roadways.

Digital Citizenship

Chrome/iPad Classroom tools. Storytime Underground. Paper Toys - Paper Cut-Out Models - Free at PaperToys.com. 911. Tools 4 Tech Lab - Teach 2 Inspire TM. A.

Tools 4 Tech Lab - Teach 2 Inspire TM

Share your ideas and create a unique voice! iSeekTarget information you want with relevant results and iViews™. Interactive Science user name : arobertspassword: science123 IN MY CLASSROOM ALL INTERACTIVE LESSONS ARE HELD WITH A PRIVATE EDUCATORS LICENSE AND STUDENTS WORK IS PASSWORD PROTECTED FOR USE IN THE CLASSROOM ONLY. TECHNO LAB - 4th QUARTERHere is a list of what you will need to complete :)Week 1 & 2Create a landing page with your biography and a blog.Design a total of 4 games using Sploder, ClassTools, and Scratch.Week 3 & 4Publish 2 interactive stories on Inkle and Figment.

Choose the format for your Website or Blog Create a game, a drawing, and a write a piece of fiction to publish using the tools below. COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - Learn the fundamentals of programming on the Khan Academy Computer Science platform. Create a free website. EduCanon. Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator. Guided Reading in GAFE. Methods for Projecting YouTube Videos Without "Related" Videos and more - vrazel - The Caedmon School Mail.

CalmCounter. Bouncy Balls - Bounce balls with your microphone! Clipix: Clip and organize everything you care about. Flow Chart Maker & Online Diagram Software. The Trusted Leader in HTML5 Document Viewing. Interact with your documents Crocodoc comes with a robust set of commenting and markup tools that enable interactive document workflows.

The Trusted Leader in HTML5 Document Viewing

These include: commenting tools, drawing tools, highlighting tools, textbox tools, and strikethrough tools. When enabled, Crocodoc's commenting and markup tools allow your users to: Collaboratively add and reply to comments on shared documents Take notes when collecting research Fill out forms and submit requested paperwork Send colleagues feedback on presentations Comprehensive API Our comprehensive API allows you to implement custom collaboration workflows by customizing the behavior of our built-in tools. Pass names to Crocodoc so they show up when comments are created Specify which annotations are visible when a document is viewed Receive real-time notifications when annotations are created Set per-user permissions when viewing, creating, or deleting annotations Download annotated PDF copies of any document Sample document. Www.in.gov/fssa/files/BCCchildcareweatherwatch.pdf.

Teachit Timer. Free Whois Lookup. Inside Search – Google. Create HTML5 Interactive Presentations, Animations, infographics & banners - HTML5 Presenter by Easy WebContent. eQuizShow - Free Online Quiz Show Templates. Quizsocket. Custom Search - SMARTBoard Notebook Search Engine. OpenEd.

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Tech Blogs. Media. MakeUseOf. 77 Things for Teachers to Try This Summer. Technology Trends in Libraries - Today & Tomorrow. Tour: Research. iPad AND iPod Resources and Lessons. Best Websites for Teaching and Learning. Coggle.

iPads in Education - Exploring the use of iPads and mobile devices in education. The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad. Finding apps isn’t difficult.

The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad

Finding education apps is only a bit more challenging. Finding free education apps is also possible. Finding free education apps worth downloading is a different story entirely. The following is our list for the 55 best apps for learning we can find. Some are formal learning–math drilling and phonics, for example–while others are RSS readers, social media platforms, and the like.

A few notes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad 1. Developer Description: View 360-degree panoramas of places around the globe with Street View; View high resolution satellite imagery of locations around the world. 2. Developer Description: “…explore more than 750 Science, Math, Social Studies, English, Engineering & Tech, Arts & Music, and Health subjects right on their mobile devices. 3. Developer Description: “This app is a fun way for parents, teachers, librarians, and readers to get more information about top rated books at the fifth and sixth grade level. WeJIT – The Power in We. Edublog Awards Nominees 2012. About Tildee.