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An article about using Wikipedia to teach writing. Although mainly geared towards higher education, the ideas could be applied to a elementary or secondary education setting.

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A collection of readers theater scripts that are appropriate for primary grade students or ELL students who are at a lower language proficiency.

www.readerstheatre.ecsd.net/collection.htm - Preview

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Weekly podcasts produced by Colonial Williansburg, which focus on topics as broad as clothing design, Constitution, horses, and smallpox.

www.diigo.com/...ory.org%2Fmedia%2Fpodcasts.cfm - Preview

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Listings and links for Google applications that can be utilized in a classroom, including activities and posters.

www.diigo.com/...e.com%2Feducators%2Findex.html - Preview

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A full-screen timer that comes with two options-- stopwatch and count down. This resource can be used for timing students' assessments or practice sessions for reading fluency.

www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch - Preview

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A free resource that provides templates for diagrams and classroom activities. It can also be used to create interactive flash cards and educational games for the classroom as well as be used to randomly select students' names to answer questions in class.

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Students can create an account and access Diana Hacker's Writer's Reference online, including writing exercises, grammar exercises, and help with ESL questions.

bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/...Login.aspx - Preview

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A resource for ESL grammar lessons that contains exercises for students to apply their knowledge of topics such as adjective clauses, adverbs, homographs, homophones, and homonyms.

www.eslcafe.com/grammar.html - Preview

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Lessons plans and activities for math-related topics are found on this website. The ideas include ways to teach concepts such as scientific notation, project ideas, and measurement lesson plans using Google Earth.

realworldmath.org/...Lessons.html - Preview

GoogleEarth education technology

This educational resource contains numerous ideas for using Google Earth in the classroom. Those ideas include lesson plans and ideas for how to use Flat Stanley with Google Earth.

www.gelessons.com/ - Preview

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A blog that reports on ideas of how to make and use 3D designs in an educational context. Many of the ideas can be developed in SketchUp.

3dvinci.blogspot.com - Preview

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A blog of Google SketchUp that frequently posts new ideas of how to use SketechUp that can be applied to an educational setting.

sketchupdate.blogspot.com - Preview

SketchUp technology education

An article about using the assistive technologies of electronic math worksheets and talking calculators in order to support and adapt instructional activities for students with visual impairments.

www.greatschools.net/...math-tools.gs - Preview

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This site contains ideas for using Wii in special needs classrooms in order for students with disabilities to learn and participate in virtual Physical Education activities.

kcsos.kern.org/...storyReader$2524 - Preview

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This is a free resource which will allow students to listen to websites via the "Awesome Talkster," a download-able software that has a browser, search engine, and text-to-voice technology.

www.awesomelibrary.org/Awesome_Talking_Library.html - Preview

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The website for Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that helps people share information. It explains the four types of licenses they developed as well as gives users a place to share and find Creative Commons licensed works.

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An extensive collection of Flickr photographs licensed under Creative Commons, which can be used under the Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works, and Share Alike licenses.

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This site provides information on hunting for benchmarks, which are a part of the NGS. Benchmarks can provide locations used to develop land maps and can also prove to be interesting items to search for using GPS.

www.geocaching.com/mark - Preview

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