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A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning http://t.co/xrDuDaJm
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Using Kidblog as a blogging tool to support PBL in the classroom.
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Close reading has become essential for all assignments, and many teachers have used claim-based essays based on each reading as formative assessments. ThinkCERCA has provided an avenue for these brief essays, as well as helping students to strengthen their annotation, summary, and paragraphing skills. The articles found in ThinkCERCA are not only filled with informational text, but written in a way that keep students focused and willing to do the work for each lesson.
Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 's insight:
ThinkCERCA looks to be a great literacy program for high school students wanting to improve their close reading and critical thinking skills in language arts.
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Citelighter looks like a well structured writing app for helping students in grade 3-12 learn about research writing. Check out the review here
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Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 's insight:
Enjoy some poetry apps from this teacher curated Edshelf site.
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Comic Life is perfect for engaging reluctant readers and teaching visual literacy, perfect for integrating STEAM and Common Core Standards into your lessons. Easy to learn and fun to use, Comic Life is a great tool for any student.
Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 's insight:
Comics are great intermediate step to more complex concepts, and creating comics in Comic Life is so easy it feels like a game! Students can use templates to get started and are free to create using their own images. Play is important to education, and Comic Life is a flexible tool that can fit into nearly any lesson plan.
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Turnitin introduced Revision Assistant, a formative writing tool giving students immediate feedback on all aspects of student writing.
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Formative assessment and writing tools with Turnitin and revision assistant.
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Study flashcards online or mobile on iPhone/Android with CoboCards. Pass exams. Pro features include unlimited flashcards, Leitner, folders and many more.
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Study flashcards and remember for exams.
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Annotation and editing, synthesizing tool with Imagine Easy Scholar. Works with Google docs.
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Technology News & Innovation in K-12 Education
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Handwriting ideas for students in elementary school using technology.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning · Home · All categories · Ed Tech ... WordWriter makes vocabulary fun, easy, and engaging and gives it a 21st century technology-twist! It's sure to be a great tool for teachers and ...
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Vocabulary help for teachers wanting to teach new and interesting words.
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“ Notetaking is a skill that students will take with them into their careers. Whether they are in meetings, participating in brainstorming sessions, or making annotations during reading, notes are an effective way of learning, retaining, and recalling ideas and concepts. This article talks about the three best techniques for taking notes in the classroom and how your students can benefit from them.” Via Miloš Bajčetić, Rosidah Awang, Scott Threlfall
Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 's insight:
Note taking tips for the high school classroom. 
Marisol Espinoza's curator insight,
February 21, 2016 7:12 PM
I decided to read this article due to my lack of note taking and how terribly bad I am at it. Usually when I take notes I write everything down that's on the board and I rush to copy it all down and I never listen to what the Professor says and then honestly I never truly go back to my notes after class and if I do I don't even understand half of it because I wasn't even listening. It says in the article that note taking is 75% listening and 25% writing. They gave us 3 different main methods to use in order to note take, the first was the Dynamic Outline where you use color and different symbols. The second method was the Page Split where you split your paper into two and the left side you write the topic and the right you write notes but not into too much detail. And the last method was the Mind Map, it was made up of circles all connecting to each other. It's easier to take notes on topics and subtopics and have them in order. I really enjoyed reading this article because I have such bad note taking I took a lot from this. One thing I believe they tried to much of you to do is short hand, honestly yes shorthand is great, but I can never remember what things are when I go back and look at my notes from shorthand, wish they could have had another method or example for the people that truly don't like using short hand.
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my Storymaker® was named one of the Best Websites for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association. People worldwide enjoy my StoryMaker®. 
Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 's curator insight,
February 26, 2015 10:54 PM
Wonderful story making tool for younger elementary students. It teaches character, theme and plot in a fun techie approach.
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So you want to get paid for your writing, but you've never been published. You have no formal experience, and no one's ever hired you for a writing-related job. The professional legwork that comes with getting paid to write can be intimidating.
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Tips on improving your career as a writer. |
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Free leveled news, primary sources, and more, with standards-aligned formative assessments. NewsELA’s ability to offer the same article at multiple reading levels has allowed teachers to maintain consistency with their assignments, class discussions, and standards. The current and intriguing articles hold the focus of many students who would otherwise be disengaged from the classwork because either they did not understand the material or they felt it was boring.
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Nonfiction literacy and current events included in this great literacy website.
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Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand better, learn new words, and teach more effectively.
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Awesome writing tool to help students understand more complex vocabulary. #ELL students.
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Edutopia blogger Monica Burns, recognizing that written storytelling doesn't come easily to every child, has hunted down six iPad apps that will bring fun and creative challenge to learning this essential real-world skill.
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Writing ipad apps for students who need creative writing encouragement.
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Grappling with the way books make students feel—not just analytical skills—should be part of the high-school English curriculum.
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Why stories and emotions are used for higher level thinking skills. Literature is used to purport emtional connection.
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Automatically generate a story plot for film or paperback and using key words of your choice. Select from a variety of styles and either publish them online or destroy them forever.
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Explore how to generate a story plot for film or book using your own words
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A really fast online dictionary
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Online dictionary for your high school students.
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Get Visual Poetry - Word Collage on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
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Make text collages with Visual Poetry app. For the visual student this will make poetry come alive!
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Watch how teachers can review rhetorical devices with students in preparation for a writing assignment. Video delves into the art of persuasion and crafting an argument.
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Persuasive writing skills high school using Shakespeare and literary devices. Teaching Channel video.
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April 16, 2015 7:01 PM
Persuasive writing tutorial high school. Teaching Channel video.
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In 2011, Edutopia published an article discussing how to prevent & combat plagiarism. Four years later, we are still looking for ways to fix this problem.
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Ideas for removing the issue of plagiarism in the classroom!
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A good public speaker takes their audience on a journey, leaving them feeling inspired and motivated. But structuring your speech to get your ideas across and keep your audience engaged all the way through is tricky. Try these eight storytelling techniques for a presentation that wows.
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Ever had problems teaching the 2nd and 3rd conditionals? Here are four songs that take the pain out of teaching these grammar structures. Via Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat
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Beatles songs to teach grammatical structure! |
Tell a story using the tool that works for you!
Powerful digital multimedia tools make a classroom much more dynamic.