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C-Span Lesson Plans for the 2012 Election

http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Lesson/659/Featured+Lesson+Idea+Primaries+and+Caucuses.aspx

http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Lesson/658/Featured+Lesson+Idea+Road+to+the+White+House.aspx

http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Lesson/657/Featured+Lesson+Idea+Presidential+Candidate+Research.aspx

Free Audio Book Sources

http://audioliterate.com/

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks

Two sites featuring learning interactive activities

Tes i Board Interactive  k-6 learning activities:  http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=7043

BBC Bitesize: Interactives for k-12 education:   http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/

Grovo-A Guide to the Internet

Grovo features tutorials on how to make the most of the many Internet services such as Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Ebay, etc.  The free trial version allows you to view most of Grovo’s content. For $9 a month, you can access all of their courses.  This really does have some great tutorials.  http://www.grovo.com/home/whatsnew

Apps for Education

Apps for Education Appitic

10 Important Skills Needed in the Future by David Andrade

10 Important skills needed in the future by David Andrade

Alfie Kohn on Grades

3-Alfie Kohn- The Case Against Grades Nov. 2011

Diane Ravitch “Changing the Poison Narrative”

4-Diane Ravitch-Changing the Poisonous Narrative Dec. 2011_Jan. 2012

I just finished Reading________What should I Read Next?

http://bookseer.com/

Sites For More Effective Google Searches and Verifying Information

http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html

http://www.googleguide.com/cheatsheet_teens.html  Google Searches for Teens (Making searching easier)

http://www.alexa.com/  Site used to verify the validity of a site.