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How will your students //create//, //collaborate//, //communicate// and //critically think//??
====Select Resources and Tools that Support your Teaching Style, Content Area, your Pedagogical approach: guide your evaluation process for selecting tools and resources by considering all that we have covered in our PD together.==== *DLC FAVES!!*

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Cross Curricular Web Based Resources

 * Curriki ** - is a play on the words 'curriculum' and 'wiki', is a not-for-profit organization that is building the first and only Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which provides universal access to free curricula and instructional materials grades K-12.


 * Internet Archive ** - is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books.


 * InfuseLearning ** - is a virtual learning and assessment tool where you can ask questions, create open ended tasks, and even ask students to draw their responses. You can also give per-prepared quizzes (self paced and timed), set up classes and push out content. //(Please// //NOTE that Internet Explore __does not__ support this tool)//. *


 * Class Dojo | **offers teachers and students a method to analyze, track, and improve student behavior and engagement by awarding real-time feedback to students. Here is a [|video] to introduce to students. *

** Smithsonian Channel - **is a joint venture of the Smithsonian Institution and Showtime explores the history of our planet, life and culture.

** Thinkfinity **- offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources across ALL content areas. The resources are grade-specific and are aligned with and CC.

**Gooru **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This free resource library of **standards-aligned** collections helps educators access rich, multimedia open education resources for students from grade five through high school.Teachers and Students accounts.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">**Graphite** | organizes and rates free and paid web tools and applications for teachers. Featured at ISTE as a great resources to differentiate for students. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px; line-height: 1.5;">*


 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cross Curricular Web Based Tools | **

<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Educreations | **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A digital whiteboard space where you can record visual and voice explanations within your browser. Whiteboard space has different color pens, and the option to build additional slides before recording, as well as upload and draw on images within the whiteboard space. **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Just need a basic drawing whiteboard app? - Check out **<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">AWW - A Web Whiteboard

<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Blekko **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> | a spam/ad free search engine for research. **

[|Diigo App] |**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other. You can even annotate web pages with comments and highlighting! ** *

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px;">**<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Penzu App **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> | An online literacy journaling tool.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px;">** Padlet App ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">| <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A sticky-note collaborative sharing space. (Previously known as //WallWisher//) *

<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Slide Rocket App **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> | A cloud based presentation tool. **

UniTag QR Code Builder ** | Build colorful and dynaic QR codes. ** [|5 Real Ways To Use QR Codes In Education] ; <span style="color: #0044cc; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> [|Five Reasons I Love Using QR Codes in My Classroom | Edutopia] ; <span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">[|Using QR Codes to Differentiate Instruction | Edutopia]

<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Youtube Simplified **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- tired of YouTube adds and popups? Afraid of what will pop up after the video you shared in class? This tool will clean ALL the adds and additional information from the page and ONLY shows the video. ** *

Humanities / Literacy Tools and Resources |
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px;">** Google Cultural Institute ** | supports discovery through online visual exploration of world wonders, art exhibitions, and significant moments in human history. * Figment ** | creates a space for readers and writers to share their writing, connect with other readers, write stories, and review peer and novel reviews. Ages +13 ** *
 * American Memory ** | from the Library of Congress, provides free media, content and "Today in ** History ** " links for all grade levels.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px;">**<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Goodreads] **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;"> | is a novel review and literary community space where students can write reviews and rate the novels they have read and engage in group-based discussions organized by the teachers or in a larger community of readers. Ages +13


 * TimeGlider | ** an interactive site allowing students to create visual ** timelines ** with photos,video, music, blogs and documents. *

<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">DocsTeach **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> | thousands of **historical documents **from the National Archives. Plus, ready-to-use activities to pair with the documents. Search by historical era or make your own activity.** <span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NYPL Digital Gallery ** | provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, **historical **maps, vintage posters, rare** prints**,**photos **and more.**

ReadWriteThink ** | provides educators with best practices and interactive resources for reading, literacy, research, inquiry and analysis, organizing and summarizing, etc. Organized by themes, grade level, and ability. ** *


 * <span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Zinn Education Project **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> | offers free, downloadable U.S. History lessons and articles organized by theme, time period and reading level.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">** Avalon Project ** | Vast collection of historical documents related to **Law** and **Diplomacy**.

Sciences, Math, CTE, Health Tools and Resources |

 * EdHeads.org ** | is an online resource providing engaging web simulations and activities. Current activities focus on **simulated surgical procedures**, cell phone **design** (with market research), simple and compound **machines**, and **weather prediction**.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px;">** My Next Move ** | guides students in answering the question: "What do I want to do for a living?" while providing resources along the way. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">* Illustrative Mathematics ** | explore CCSSM high school content standards with illustrations in connection to particular standards. **

CDC - Body and Mind ** | encourages students to think about the health of their body and mind through a series of animates videos and games. ** *

** Brain Genie ** | Set up content lessons, review videos, and practice questions for **Math** and **Science** students. Brain Genie tracks progress and marks questions students struggled with.


 * GeoGebra ** | Free **mathematics** software for learning and teaching offering interactive geometry, algebra and spreadsheets. [ Geogebra Tube - the official repository of Gorgebra constructs and resources). *

HippoCampus.org ** - includes free educational resources including video presentations and test prep for **Math **and** Science **high school curriculum.**


 * Learn.Genetics | **engage in lesson plans and interactive simulations including building a DNA molecule and comparing cell scale and size. *

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.222222328186035px;">**<span style="color: #327cbb; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">MEDtropolis **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- features access to **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">health **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> calculators and the multimedia **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">virtual body **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> tour with drag-and-drop activities.
 * PhET ** | provides dozens of fantastic simulations for **physics**, **chemistry** and **biology**. The website also includes a collection of teacher contributed activities, lab experiences, homework assignments and conceptual questions that can be used with the simulations.


 * SciShow | ** is all about teaching **scientific** concepts in an accessible and easy-to-understand manner. This YouTube channel includes a variety of short (3 minute) and long (10 minute) videos. New videos are released weekly. * **