Dianne Krause's Public Library

We've got information for you on everything you need to know to survive in the real world. Our content is packed with tips, advice and direction on how to navigate the "consumer jungle". 

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Successful teachers know how useful graphic organizers are in every subject. Now you can edit your graphic organizers before you print them out! This is a great tool for creating example worksheets for your class; you can fill out an entire graphic organizer to use as an example or answer key, or you can just fill in a few of the blanks to get your students started. Or, have your students fill out each graphic organizer on their own computer, making unreadable handwriting a problem of the past. Feel free to customize these printable graphic organizers to fit your needs and your classroom instruction.

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How do you educate a generation of students eternally distracted by the internet, cellphones and video games? Easy. You enable them by handing out free iPhones — and then integrating the gadget into your curriculum.

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Cyberspace Security for All of Us
It takes a village to raise a child. It takes the entire community to work together to keep students, teachers, staff, and families safe online.

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Surf to these sites for some fun keyboarding practice.

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KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) are pleased to present the 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Education. Created by a range of experts and analysts, the map is a forecast of the future, and each element on the map represents forces that could affect learning in the next decade. Many of these forces can work in tandem, and they could also appear seemingly unconnected. Nothing is definite. We don’t encourage debating with the forecast, but rather encourage you to explore the map, think about what you’ve seen, and use the map and its interactive features for group and online discussion. Think of the map as a catalyst for conversation.

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A great collection of interactive videos and activities for elementary school.  Includes Brainpop videos, interactive activities, and more.

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Why should I upgrade to Teacher 2.0?
To this I have five major answers:

1) Because most of your students are upgraded
2) Because the curriculum asks you to
3) Because it will help you
4) Because you are supposed to prepare for and educate the future. How can you do that if you work in the past?
5) Because everything else does

If these five answers won’t convince you I regret to say that you are hopelessly living in the past still being a Teacher 1.0. But there is hope!

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With technology evolving at the speed of light, and everyone looking to benefit from the latest, greatest hardware and software, keeping up can be challenging for educators, administrators, and school districts themselves. To help, THE Journal spoke with a handful of technology experts and came up with a short list of top tech trends you'll want to watch in the new year

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The purpose of this course is to provide ”Just in Time” training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as the new MMC Online Experience requirement.  Participants who fulfill all of the requirements have the opportunity to earn SBCEU’s. To learn more about the session, look under the tab “The 21 Things”. We hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity. 

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Here's another poster to help get you thinking about how you can apply Bloom's higher-order thinking skills in your classroom. This poster shows the segments of an orange with each segment relating to a thinking skill and some helpful verbs to serve as prompts.

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Are you looking for ways to incorporate digital media into your teaching?

PBS Teachers offers a series of FREE monthly webinars featuring leading education technology experts and PBS producers sharing resources and strategies to help teachers use digital media to engage students in rich learning experiences.

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Welcome to PupilTube.com, the worlds largest collection of how-to, tutorial and explanatory videos online. We collect, share and promote knowledge.

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Nice list of resources for units in Science and Social Studies for Kindergarten and First grade.

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A load of resources for Native American studies.

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Loads of resources for a project on Native Americans.

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Copyright website for kids

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GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculus. It offers multiple representations of objects in its graphics, algebra, and spreadsheet views that are all dynamically linked.

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