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Copyright and Creative Commons | Common Craft ”The video helps to explain the basics of copyright law and creative commons licensing and the role each can play in helping creators protect and share their work.”
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Ten Websites for Science Teachers | Edutopia A list of some favorite online resources for science teachers that was created by blogger Eric Brunsell.
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100 Amazing Online Tools to Learn About Outer Space | Photography Colleges ”Everyone from kids to teachers to adults who want to reach for the stars encounters problems. Telescopes are expensive and complex to operate. Observatories can be difficult to access. Information can be loaded with jargon. But with the help of the internet, these problems can be a thing of the past. Below are the most 100 amazing resources, sites, and free tools to help everyone learn about outer space.”
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Welcome to thinkb4u A website that focuses on safety when using digital/online resources. It is divided into links for parents, students and teachers to watch videos, play games and explore other websites that focus on online safety. This site allows the user to interact with the pages. Easily accessible by students who should find this format interesting in its approach to online safety.
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Turnitin : Leading Plagiarism Checker, Online Grading and Peer Review
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Video contest asks students why they belong in their school library |
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Now You See It // Digital Literacy: An Agenda for the 21st Century
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30 Amazing Mobile Apps for Photographers ”Mobile photography is becoming more and more popular with an ever expanding sea of apps available to aid anyone with a keen eye and a smartphone.”
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Keeping Students Engaged in a 1:1 Project-Based Classroom [guest post] | Dangerously Irrelevant A list of suggestions for keeping students engaged in a project and accountable for their time with computers.
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10 Photography Tips for Beginners | PCMag.com Some easy to follow tips that will improve the quality of your photographs.
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How to Create Your Own Textbook – With or Without Apple | MindShift Tips on how to create a digital textbook and strategies for involving the students in its development in three steps.
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The reading rules | bigbookcase From Karen Powers’ blog. She is a teacher librarian, reader and part-time writer. These rules are “everything you need to know about turning your child into a reader”.
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To do well in life, you have to read well. | bigbookcase A good radio interview with Walter Dean Myers. Myers who is a well-known and award-winning African American author of YA fiction and non-fiction. In this interview, he points out a simple but vital fact: “… very often books are looked upon as a wonderful adjunct to our lives. It’s so nice. Books can take you to faraway places and this sort of thing. But then it all sounds as if it’s something nice but not really necessary. And during my lifetime things have changed so drastically. You can’t do well in life if you don’t read well“.
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3 Ways To Keep Students Focused Amid All The Gadgets | Edudemic How can we keep students focused on schoolwork with all the electronic temptations surrounding them? By engaging the students completely with our lessons, keeping students actively involved in their learning, and reflecting on our practice to avoid blaming the technology or kids’ short attention spans”
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Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis
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