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How do we teach creativity? Not feeling creative? Here is a good list of resources focused on creativity and the teaching of this important skill.

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"This website is part of a three-year project inviting teachers from around the world to tell the stories of learning unfolding in their classrooms. These writings combine action research, assessment documentation, and personal reflection with a focus on thinking and learning."

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Fun typing game!

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"instructional resources for using Google Apps"

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The World Wonders Project enables you to discover 132 historic sites from 18 countries, including Stonehenge, the archaeological areas of Pompeii and the ancient Kyoto temples. In addition to man-made sites, you can explore natural places: wander the sandy dunes of Australia’s Shark Bay or gaze up at the rock domes of Yosemite National Park in California, Lots of positive buzz on the internet about this new site!

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Ideas for doing more with Diigo. Particularly useful set of ideas for education.

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Film Story is an interactive site where you can search for theatrical films by geographical location, history or science subject, historical era, and film type.

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Evernote is an excellent tool for organization. This blog post shares some applications and good links to learn more about using Evernote for productivity.

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"In their book Why Social Media Matters: School Communication in the Digital Age authors Kitty Porterfield and Meg Carnes argue that for school leaders to use social media effectively, they not only use it to communicate out information, they must also engage in listening to what stakeholders are saying. Listening online gives leaders insight into their communities in a way that face-to-face meetings and surveys do not."

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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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"Bogus or hoax websites are a wonderful resource to use with students to develop their critical evaluation skills. However, many are only suitable for more mature students and it is essential that students have a good understanding of the topic before they are asked to pick the deliberate falsehoods and exaggerations. For example, the Dihydrogen Monoxide site is only useful when students have an understanding of chemical formulas."

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"Do you suffer from info overload? Is your RSS reader bursting at the seams? Have your bookmarks gone bonkers?"

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"Even with all of the benefits of technology in the classroom, however, educators must use caution to ensure that students are focusing on the lesson and not giving in to distractions. Here are seven ways that teachers can use to help students pay more attention when using technology."

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Great list of questions pertaining to SAFETY and SECURITY in Google Apps for Education.

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Grovo's video lessons aren't just stand-alone videos. There a part of a sequence of video courses. Each course has guiding questions that you can use to check your knowledge along the way.

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Aired between 1992 and 1994 on the BBC and HBO, The Animated Shakespeare brings to life 12 famous Shakespeare plays. Leon Garfield, a well-known British children’s author, wrote the scripts, mainly using Shakespearian language. And some talented Russian artists did the animation.

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Put the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure:if this then that. Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).

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"Here’s a short video tutorial that demonstrates how easy it is to create a simple drag and drop activity in Smart Notebook 11 using the activity builder add-on."

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"Trying to figure something out on your own before getting help actually produces better results than having guidance from the beginning"

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TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

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