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Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 150 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions."

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It is a good one-stop shopping spot for short video clips about how teachers are using technology in their classrooms. It is split out by grades, and then subject areas.

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"Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners.With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training." The site offers access to leveled lesson plans for K-12, search activities from AGoogleADay, and an archive of previous webinars.

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"The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database."

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"Are you still unsure about taking the plunge into Twitter? Worried it’s not actually useful for learning or teaching? Think it’s still just about people talking about what they’re eating? Whether you’re a newbie wondering the above questions or a talented tweeter, there are always new and exciting ways to use Twitter. Lucky for us all, Maggie Verster (check out her edublog here) created an epic e-torial (e-tutorial!) that walks you through the A to Z of Twitter for education"

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"Busy teachers may feel that taking the time to learn how to use Twitter isn’t worth the return for the students benefit, so that’s why this list of 100 tips, apps, and resources is worth browsing. Find out how to get started with Twitter, ways to use it in an educational setting, and tools to help you use it better with these resources."

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"While a college degree is the most direct route to a career in computer science, students can start building their skills for free with some of the great resources offered on the web. We’ve listed just a few of the best sites for free computer education here, offering lessons in everything from programming to theory for students to take in whenever and wherever they like."

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"How can the TED talks be used as springboards for further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action?"

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A collection of free online educational videos, lessons, quizzes, games and puzzles.

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A short list of online typing practice sites.

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"As technology crouches into our life, new ways of communication emerge giving birth to novel content providers. We have now blog posts, online newspapers, ebooks, tweets, emails,.. and several other forms where learners can get the information they want. Do we know how to properly cite these new resources?"

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"From The New York Times, to ABC News, to HuffingtonPost.com and everyone in between, nearly 30,000 members of the media have quoted HARO sources in their stories. Everyone’s an expert at something. Sharing your expertise may land you that big media opportunity you’ve been looking for."

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Common Core resources - sort of a 1-stop shop for Common Core goodness!

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"Whether you’re looking to inspire or entertain your students, the following TED talks have terrific lessons embedded in fascinating talks"

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"Kids are spending lots of time on social networks, and parents are concerned about what’s happening on these sites. The following resources are designed to help your school provide social networking guidance to parents in whatever format works for you: in person, through mailings, or on your website."

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An extensive collection of uses for Evernote in education.

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An extensive collection of ideas on how to use Evernote in education.

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"Web 2 Tools by Task"

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Check out the the lesson plan index and the classroom tools index for links to information about each of the services available to teachers and students as well as tutorial or how-to resources.

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"We are pleased to offer the best of all of our technologies to you here in the Wolfram Education Portal, organized by course. In the portal you'll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts." You'll need to download and install a viewer, but this is pretty painless and the results are worth the effort.

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