Kathleen Morris's Public Library

Information about teaching researching skills

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Interactive about the scale of the universe

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A complete guide to using photos on iDevices with Instagram and other apps

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A fun activity to help children at KS1 learn about using punctuation.

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Good activity to show on IWB about using quotation marks and choosing words other than said when story writing.

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Choose how to correctly punctuate the sentences with quotation marks and colons.

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Join Linda Yollis (Los Angeles, USA) and Kathleen Morris (Victoria, Australia) as they present on educational blogging and global collaboration at ISTE 2012.

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Great site to find free apps for kids

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Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing

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Common Sense Media's free K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum offers robust lessons and activities based on the latest digital ethics research from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

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A roundup of educational articles, apps and tutorials for educators looking to integrate iPads into the classroom.

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The Student ICT Expectations (PDF, 629k) can help teachers and school administrators plan meaningful and engaging learning experiences that incorporate the use of ICT

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Mel Cashen's draft of an ICT scope and sequence

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Instructions on how parents receive a text message whenever a tweet is sent from the school account.

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Helps students gather “ingredients” for a “tasty” book report.
Even if students do not write a traditional book report this tool will help them organize their thoughts on what is important in their book.

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Easy way to create a comic strip or comic book

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450 new fonts for Google Docs

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Collection of posts by a principal in British Columbia about parent engagement

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