The Google Wonders Project is an interactive website that allows visitors to discover many of the wonders of the world. Virtual visitors can get off the beaten path and explore wonders from 6 continents up close through Google's amazing street view...
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Spin Xpress: Search for Creative Commons Images
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Students today have had easy access to a tremendous amount of multimedia content for their entire lives and it's fairly safe to say that they can be careless about using it. When asked to create multimedia projects for school, many students simply...
Electing a President - An Interactive Graphic
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cool tools,
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election,
electoral college,
free technology,
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I created an interactive graphic to provide students and their teachers with flexible paths to learn about electing a president and the electoral college. The image was created with ThingLink. I used some of the new storytelling icons to identify different...
Common Core Connections: Unpacking Academic Vocabulary
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Are
you wondering where to begin to adopt the Common Core Vocabulary Standards?
While there are many specific vocabulary standards clearly listed in the K-12
Language strand, it's helpful and important to look at Academic Vocabulary
from the big...