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Stuck on what to write about for your company blog or website? Check out these content-creating tips from Ann Handley of MarketingProfs.
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Concept mapping and mind mapping are powerful graphic organizers, strategies for organizing and representing knowledge. They were developed during the seventies.The terms may seem to be interchangeable, but there are some differences in the way they are created and used.
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"Boys need a sense of purpose in order to engage with what they do. Give them an audience, create real ‘wow’ moments and help develop a love of fiction. Gary Wilson explores some practical ways in which you can help to engage boys."
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One of the perks of social media is finding new vocabulary tools! Recently, I stumbled upon Lingro, a website that helps you define words on other websites. Sound confusing?
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Simple, collaborative screen sharing. You each get your own mouse, and you're both always in control.
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Ever thought of using a blog to enhance your classroom? Here are 15 examples that come out of just ONE of the 100's of digital teacher workbooks inside of our Teacher Learning Community.
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Too excited for this weekend's Saturday workshop “Writing for Children,” I thought I'd take a peek at the lesson plan and share a few goodies: Read books—the classics you grew up reading and new books your kids and ...
Group brainstorming and decision software made easy. Discover why this is the best brainstorming and group decision making software for group mapping! GroupMap shows you what the group is thinking by combining the views and ideas of individual participants. It provides valuable insight for leading a group, collective learning and effective decision making. Solve a problem, learn together or discover common ground...quickly and effectively.
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Defeat your mental blocks with these tried and true tools.
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Into the Book focuses on eight reading comprehension strategies for grades 1-4. Kids area has interactive activities for each strategy, teacher area features teacher guides, lesson plans, posters, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.
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CCSSO developed this list of tools and resources to point states to promising practices and tools to support Common Core State Standards implementation.
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Get definitions with just a click. Identify SAT/ACT vocabulary words on any page. Our free bookmarklet makes it easy to improve your vocabulary while you surf the web!
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iPad programs are gathering steam in higher education, but there's a growing recognition that the key to success lies in building faculty support and adequate infrastructure first.
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Wishing you had a fun, fast and creative writing activity for your students? Then Phrase.it just might be it! This “cool tool” is a free online image editor which allows users to add cartoon style speech and/or thought bubbles to images.
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Join the Wattpad community to read, vote and chat with readers and writers for free.
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Peter Gutierrez: "In the first part of my conversation with Tyler Weaver we discussed the many benefits of teaching with, and making, comics as well as the role of the school librarian when it comes to transmedia… here we get a bit more specific in terms of the issues involved."
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"Encourage Everyone You Know to Read" The very best tip I've ever seen for good storytelling I wholeheartedly believe to be true. If you want to be a good writer and storyteller ... read. I saw tha...
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