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OverDrive: ebooks, audiobooks, and videos for libraries and schools

OverDrive: ebooks, audiobooks, and videos for libraries and schools
We've made some changes! If you're looking for information about our library, school and retail products, visit company.overdrive.com. Get the app “OverDrive is just, well, easier.” – USA Today The OverDrive app allows you to read eBooks and listen to audiobooks on a wide variety of compatible tablets, phones and computers. Get the app!

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Gale Cengage: Library Research K-12 Classroom in Context (CLiC) Transform your resources into interactive classroom content with digital curriculum tools. Start exploring Gale In Context Deliver the most-studied topics to middle and high school students with engaging online resources. Learn more 60second Recap® - Classic literature, books for teens, and more. Thesis Statements: Four Steps to a Great Essay, using an example from "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | Excerpt from "How to Write an A+ Essay: A Step-by-Step Guide" by Jenny Sawyer. Writing the thesis statement. Overview.0:19 What you must do BEFORE you begin writing your thesis statement,0:26 Sample assignment: from "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne0:37 Writing the thesis statement: Step One. Answer the question1:08 Writing the thesis statement: Step Two. Refine your answer2:10 Writing the thesis statement: Step Three.

MINDWEBS - Michael Hanson's official tape archive : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming WMSE Station Manager Tom Crawford and I will be hosting a 3 hour memorial to Michael Hanson before this weeks MINDWEBS episode. Tune in for not only MINDWEBS, but interviews and other treats as we celebrate the life and legacy of Michael Hanson. Please join us Saturday at 9pm as we remember the man and his work. ****September 9th 2019**** It is with the deepest regret and pain that I make this announcement.

‎Visual Anatomy Lite on the App Store Interactive anatomy reference with muscle action movies, 3D rotational models, Gray's anatomy images add-on, Latin names, a muscle highlighting tool and full description! • No.1 free anatomical app in UK Appstore! • Visual Anatomy Lite is recommended by top U.S.-licensed doctors on HealthTap ( School Furniture for Today's Classroom - Smith System Classroom Furniture’s Active Role in Learning Environments. The classroom has evolved from a static physical space into a dynamic learning environment. What made this evolution possible is the combination of a better understanding of the way students learn and the ability to apply that understanding through more effective teaching methods. Naturally, as the teaching methods changed, so have the teacher’s tools, including the classroom furniture. Even advanced desks don’t move themselves. Mobility is a crucial feature for furniture in a collaborative learning classroom.

Project Appendix D Promote the inclusion of diverse voices in K-12 classrooms with a unique model for culturally responsive text selection and a growing list of teacher-recommended titles. A Tool for Selecting Diverse Texts Appendix D: A Tool for Selecting Diverse Texts walks users through four distinct—but interconnected—considerations: complexity, diversity and representation, critical literacy, and reader and task, modeling the method we used to identify texts for our K-12 anti-bias curriculum, Perspectives for a Diverse America. Traditionally, tools that aid text selection have focused on quantitative and qualitative measures, giving teachers the means to select based on inherent text complexities; for example, word and sentence length, text cohesion, language features and knowledge demands. These tools have not provided ways for teachers to include diversity and representation, critical literacy and reader and task considerations in their text selection process.

A Quick Twine (2.2+) Tutorial: Computational Approaches to Narrative by Allison Parrish Download Twine here. This tutorial is about Twine 2.2.1, and should hopefully be useful even for slightly earlier or later versions. (A few years ago I made a tutorial specific to Twine 1.4, which might still be useful if you want to use that version!) Book Systems Library Automation Software Your School Library is at the center of academic development in your community. Whether serving students, teachers, or parents, your mission is clear: provide fast and easy access to your complete archive of books, videos, and digital media in a cost effective manner. Atriuum, Book Systems’ 100% Web-based library management system, offers you, your students, faculty and staff a comprehensive, reliable, and easy-to-use system providing instant access from any computer or mobile device 24 hours a day. Atriuum streamlines many of your most time-consuming management tasks and empowers students and teachers to manage their own accounts within the circulation rules you set.

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