Tess Alfonsin's Public Library

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Flip through page by page of a Wreck This Journal

writing**creativity

Teaching Grammar with hip hop.

grammar

An introduction to inquiry learning

inquiry**learning

Inspirational

motivational

Excellent blog about how/why we should reshape education for middlers.

middle school

Resources to teach students how to evaluate sources.

research

Teach your students how to search/research.

research

This curating website allows you to tell stories by compiling links from social media about a specific topic or theme. Use it to help teens apply their information literacy and storytelling skills.

digital**storytelling

21st century teaching

21st century learning

The Guardian newspaper produces a set of photos from around the world for each day. Many are from the news, while others show far off places and interesting things.

pictures writing**prompts

BYOD

pdf of useful information for parents

21st century learning

•Collect your resources
•Organize them neatly and easily
•Make an Impression

research

Looking for a safe way to text your students/athletes/club members or parents? Remind101.com allows you to instantly message a class of students or their parents from your computer. Teachers never see students’ phone numbers and students never see theirs.

It’s easy.

Set up a class
Give your students the randomly generated number to join by text message.
Once in your class, you can message the group and even schedule messages for later.

communication parents students

google docs

Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership

Get some weird and wonderful story starters. Just click on the button to view one of the million starters. There is also a junior version.

writing**prompts

A superb storyboarding site where users click and drag items onto the screen. A great tool for a class just being introduced to storyboarding.

storytelling

NY Times article/lesson about plagiarizing vs. paraphrasing

research