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Manga Comic Creator | Create a comic | Disney

Manga Comic Creator | Create a comic | Disney | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
Create your own manga comic and publish it online. Invent your own characters to write a high school story, rock star diary, or big city adventure.
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31st Annual Effective Schools Conference

31st Annual Effective Schools Conference | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
Brought to you A+ Educators
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Great new location! Save the date for the 31st Annual Effective Schools Conference featuring Larry Lezotte, Phil McCrae, John Antonetti, Marcia Tate, Mike Schmoker, John Barone, Burke Hatch, David Pook, Ben Grebinski, David Glover and Palliser Regional Schools.

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CCSS Resources

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Good stuff to help with the transition.
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If you are transitioning to the Common Core, check out this topic.

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Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration and Sharing

Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration and Sharing | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
Stixy makes it fun and easy for you to collaborate online! Create tasks, appointments, files, photos, notes, and bookmarks on your Stixyboards, organized in whatever way make sense to you.
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Paper for the Web | Wallwisher

Paper for the Web | Wallwisher | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
The simplest way to create. From any device, with anyone.
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7 Ways to Collect Student Work in an iPad Classroom

7 Ways to Collect Student Work in an iPad Classroom | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it

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Great alternatives to the 'automatically print' syndrome.

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infuselearning | Empowering The BYOD REVOLUTION

infuselearning | Empowering The BYOD REVOLUTION | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it

InfuseLearning is a virtual learner response system that works with any device.

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Free Screen Sharing | Screenleap

Free Screen Sharing | Screenleap | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
Free screen sharing using Screenleap. The fast, simple, and free way to share your screen instantly for online meetings, sales demos, and collaboration.
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Powerful tool for the classroom!

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A Pep Talk from Kid President to You

We all need a little encouragement every now and then. Kid President, knowing this, has put together a video you can play each morning as you wake up or to s...
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Inspiring motivational video.

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MEDMYST — Explore Science - Infectious Diseases

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An interactive learning adventure, with accompanying classroom activities and magazines, that teaches microbiology. Funded through the National Center for Research Resources and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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Bandwidth-Check-Instructions.pdf

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Smarter Balanced has recently released a website that allows you to perform a bandwidth test based upon the number of students you will have testing simultaneously.

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CCSS: Will school computers be able to handle new testing technology?

CCSS: Will school computers be able to handle new testing technology? | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it

The Smarter Balanced Consortium released guidelines with specific requirements for devices students will use to take their high stakes tests in the 2013-2014 school year.

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Audri's Rube Goldberg Monster Trap

Watch as 7 year old Audri tests his hypothesis with the Rube Goldberg Monster Trap he designed and constructed.

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Morphing into a 21st Century Teacher (updated)

Morphing into a 21st Century Teacher (updated) | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
This work by Mia MacMeekin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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Colene Hardy's curator insight, May 20, 1:37 PM

A lot of people, even those I work with, think that what I do is "technology". I like this infographic because it shows how technology is just one part of a big picture. I think this will come in handy for future professional development sessions.

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SmarterEveryDay

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I explore the world using science. That's pretty much all there is to it. Watch 2 videos. If you learn something AWESOME, subscribe.
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Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard

Science Pirates: The Curse of Brownbeard | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
An educational game centered on scientific understanding and processes and leads them to a better understanding of hand washing. The game takes students through science processes as recommended through national science standards.
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Inanimate Alice - Homepage

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Inanimate Alice - A Digital Novel
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Set in a technology-augmented near-future, Inanimate Alice tells the story of a young girl who grows up to become a videogame designer at the biggest games company in the world. Beginning in China when Alice is eight years old, and told over ten increasingly complex episodes, the series follows the journey of Alice and her closest 'friend' Brad around the world and towards their final destiny.

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Common Core - Close Reading

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Pinterest Board focusing on Close Reading.

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You Are Your Words - AHD

You Are Your Words - AHD | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
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Upload a picture of yourself, add descriptive information and create a wordle-like image of the combination.

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remind101

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A safe way for teachers to text message students and keep in touch with parents.
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For all of you who wanted to text parents or students, but didn't want them to be able to text back!

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Popcorn Maker

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Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web — from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds.

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Edcanvas | The one place to organize, present and share knowledge

Edcanvas | The one place to organize, present and share knowledge | Closing the Effort Gap: Getting the Learner into the Learning | Scoop.it
The one place to organize, present and share knowledge
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Great way for teachers to organize web resources for specific topics or classes.

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CSI: THE EXPERIENCE — Web Adventures

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Learn forensic science with this interactive game.

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Inside Mathematics

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Inside Mathematics is a professional learning community for educators passionate about improving students' mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the site.
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The Mathematics Assessment Project

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The Mathematics Assessment Program (MAP) aims to bring to life the Common Core State Standards (CCSSM) in a way that will help teachers and their students turn their aspirations for achieving them into classroom realities. MAP is a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley and the Shell Center team at the University of Nottingham, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The team works with the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative and school systems across the US and UK to develop improved assessment.

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