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"Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias and What They Can Teach Us" An exceptional list!

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Just because you’re online doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world first-hand — or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to anatomy, literature to government.

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How can a teacher best approach the teaching of a novel? This lens will break it down step by step, from the abstract notion of "What's worth teaching in this novel?" to the concrete concerns of "How will students be held accountable for their understanding of this book? In what ways will I assess progress?

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links to 21 author sites

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Blogs are easy to create. But just because something’s easy doesn’t mean it will stick. As someone who supports teachers in understanding and using digital learning tools, this is a pattern I’ve seen all too often.

So how does a teacher or her students find blogging success? Here are a few things I’ve discovered in both my own blog as well as with my work with students and teachers.

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Welcome to my workshop! Here you'll find writing tips, strategies, and challenges to help you write a book review. Once you've completed my challenges, try writing and publishing a review of your own. When you've completed your review and this workshop, you can write your own book review and publish it online.

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a 2 minute tutorial

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All the titles in our BC Books for BC Schools (2008/09) (2009/10) and our Canadian Aboriginal Book for Schools (2008/09) (2009/10) catalogues have been selected from publisher submissions by teacher-librarians. The titles have been chosen for their relevance to school curricula and are annotated by professional evaluators.

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The 54 books annotated below were selected as the best of the year from the 5700 books reviewed in SLJ’s pages in 2009. We think children and teens will find them enlightening, entertaining, or evocative.

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DOGONews is an online news and web resource for elementary school children, aged 5-10 and a publishing platform for aspiring reporters ages 9-15. The website consists of three sections: News, Sites and Earth.

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a great student made presentation on how to create an effective presentation

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What a great way to read a book..... As our English 10 class picked up their Kite Runner books for the first time this semester, I mentioned that we had a “friend in Afghanistan” who was eagerly awaiting their questions and comments. About five hands went up immediately. “Who is it?” “How do you know him?” And of course, “Why does he care about our class?”

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A wonderful way to teach history and geography... anything that requires a map using Google Maps and the social bookmarking tool Diigo. Awesome!

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Life magazine's collection of photos

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nice little tip sheet on how to correctly use an apostrophe

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Anyone can write a paragraph, but not everyone knows how to write one that other people want to read.

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tons of great links to information about graphic novels

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My philosophy, instead of shutting tools such as chatrooms completely out, is to use them in a safe environment, engage students and use teachable moments to talk about safety and etiquette.

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This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie.

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