• The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald Teaching Resources – Resources – TES

  TES’s resources for teaching The Great Gatsby.

  tags: great gatsby literature american american literature teaching fitzgerald

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• To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science | Budding Scientist, Scientific American Blog Network

  To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science | Scientific American Blog Network http://t.co/JfkKy0OE5j via @sciam

• Educational Technology / 20 Google Docs Secrets for busy teachers and students. — Edgalaxy

  20 Google Docs Secrets for busy teachers and students. — Edgalaxy http://t.co/0ppJquws4l via @pinterest

• Free Online Grammar Check, Spelling, and More | PaperRater

  Free online tool that checks spelling and grammar and plagiarism and offers writing suggestions.

  tags: readability writing reading tool tools free

• The Readability Test Tool

  Test readability of a page by URL or direct text input. Includes Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, Coleman-Liau, and ARI.

  tags: readability writing reading tool tools

• Readability-Score.com – Free Online Readability Calculator – Flesch Kincaid, Gunning Fog and more …

  Checks writing for readability levels, including Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning-Fog, Coleman-Liau, SMOG Index, and Automated Readability Index.

  tags: readability writing tool tools reading

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• Free Technology for Teachers: Free Courses On Copyright and Creative Commons for Educators

  Free Courses On Copyright and Creative Commons for Educators http://t.co/WIf49bZiwo

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• Use QR codes that students scan as they walk in…

  tags: llf13

  Use QR codes that students scan as they walk in…and BAM they are all on the right site immediately! @jcoughlin24 #llf13 @masscue

• Inkling – Interactive books for iPad, iPhone and the web

  Learning about interactive books w/ cascading images available from http://t.co/lpx5VTXo8B from @thomasdaccord at #llf13 Cool!

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• Writer's Workshop poetry lesson with the iPad on Vimeo

  Writer’s Workshop poetry lesson with the iPad
  #LLF13 http://t.co/AxdPFib8JZ

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• The 6 technology skills expected of all incoming freshmen - all – Home – Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  The 6 technology skills expected of all incoming freshmen – all (as GoogleDoc) http://t.co/Xk8NR1C6iV

• Tom March :: Thesis Builder – The Original Persuasive Essay Maker

  tags: writing composition English literature

• BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos

  tags: photos digital

• IfItWereMyHome.com

  IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration.

  tags: geography world social studies social_studies

• iPad As….

  iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms. Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. As teachers seek ways to integrate these devices, we recommend focusing on specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments. Below, you will find a list of objectives, each one connecting to recommended apps and tools.

  tags: ipad app apps edtech teacher

• Used Books in Class

  Discussion of the inclusion of specific used book titles in English/language arts classrooms as well as discuss how we are working to improve reading in and out of the classroom at every grade level. Used books in class is also about using books in class to improve reading!

  tags: English language arts teaching education literacy reading

• OER Commons

  Welcome to OER Commons, a place for you to find and share open educational resources.

  tags: oer open education schools open source

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• Redirecting…

  @ExplainEverything 2.0 now available! Learn from creator @reshanrichards in next week’s webinar http://t.co/AaS7DF7Z #ettwebinar #ettipad

  tags: ettwebinar ettipad

• Google Drive iPad Portfolio on Vimeo

  Check out “Google Drive iPad Portfolio” on Vimeo http://t.co/LOf7URlz integration apps notability, explain everything, #midlevt #etmooc

  tags: midlevt etmooc

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Digital Learning Day was February 6. How did your school raise awareness for digital learning?

Worcester Academy’s library chose to showcase QR codes. We commissioned a display project from art students. We were thrilled to discover the QR code they created actually scans!

Library staff researched media such as e-books, podcasts, videos, and websites that connected to library books and other materials.

Then we created QR codes and affixed them to the books and materials. in the picture above, you can see Neil Gaiman’s novel Anansi Boys. The QR code attached is linked to a YouTube video cartoon version of one of the many Anansi folktales. The other book, 1812: The War that Forged a Nation by Walter Borneman is linked to an episode of the In Our Time Podcast that discussed that war.

The display was wide-ranging and included links to library resources, Black History Month resources, and resources related to the curriculum.

Books connected to a major World Civilizations project that ninth graders complete at Worcester Academy had QR codes that linked to e-book versions that students could access from home.
Fiction and other media were not slighted, either. A new box set, The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music has a QR code that links to Black History Month resources, and Rachel Cohn’s novel Beta links to the Human Genome Project’s Cloning Fact Sheet.

We also displayed some titles from our Professional Development Collection.

You may have noticed the iPads as well. The library owns a set of iPad 2′s and 3′s loaded with a QR code reader called Qrafter. Students and teachers can scan the QR codes using their own devices, or they can use one of the iPads and send the link to themselves from the iPad.

We set these slips of paper out among the displays for students and faculty to suggest QR codes for books and other media. Two of our sixth graders have already shared QR codes. One student shared a book review of the children’s novel Tuck Everlasting and another student shared a Britannica blog post connecting gladiators in ancient Rome to The Hunger Games.

QR codes have enormous potential to extend learning in libraries and information services far beyond the four walls of the libraries themselves.

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Digital Learning Day at the Worcester Academy Library

• Digital Learning Day: Resource Roundup | Edutopia

  “The second annual Digital Learning Day is on February 6, 2013. We’ve compiled some useful resources on digital learning to help you celebrate the day with your class.”

  tags: technology integration edutopia digital learning day digital learning education

• Technology Integration Research Review | Edutopia

  Technology integration can be one of the most challenging topics to find quality research on. The term itself is a broad umbrella for numerous practices that may have little in common with each other. In addition, technology tools change rapidly, and outcomes can vary depending on implementation. Edutopia’s tech integration review explores some of the vast body of research out there and helps you navigate useful results.

  tags: technology integration research edutopia technology integration education

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• wwwatanabe: Introduction to iPads: Part 2–iPad Integration

  How does a teacher start to use iPads in the classroom? While Part 1 focuses on the hardware basics, Part 2 focuses on iPad integration in the classroom. Most teachers need to think through a few things about implementation before going full throttle.

  tags: ipads integration ipad technology

• Ekphrastic Poetry

  A great collection of ekphrastic poetry and the art that inspired it.

  tags: poetry ekphrastic literature reading art artists

• Blind Date with a Book

  A cool idea for libraries.

  tags: library librarian

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• Audible Essentials | Audible.com

  Audible.com gathers together a list of essential audio books. My wishlist is huge after looking through this wonderful list.

  tags: essentials literature audio audible books reading

• ISTE | How to Integrate Technology Effectively into Your Teaching Using the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Framework

  This week’s #ISTE Webinar: How to Integrate Technology Effectively into Your Teaching Using TPACK: http://t.co/u9QBXcmb #edtech

  tags: ISTE edtech

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• Grade on iPad

  This app lets you grade & markup your students’ papers from your iPad! #edchat – http://t.co/Mpsfqg5E

  tags: edchat

• Second fav teacher quote ‘If y

  Second fav teacher quote ‘If your kids are abusing technology in your class. . you have a behaviour problem, not a technology problem’

• Great livebinder – iPad Apps for U.S. History

  Great livebinder – iPad Apps http://t.co/99z7Yfc0 for U.S. History

• Poor Radagast the Brown. Obviously a Hufflepuff al

  Poor Radagast the Brown. Obviously a Hufflepuff alum.

• Better Living through Beowulf | How great literature can change your life

  Professor Robin Bates shares insights about literature—how it connects to our lives today, and how it is relevant for understanding ourselves.

  tags: blog literature beowulf english

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