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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response to a six year asking about the meaning of life

This is Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response to a six year old that asked him about the meaning of life.

 

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The Ultimate Guide to Creative Commons from foter.com

This is a great guide to the various Creative Commons attributes.  The ultimate Guide to Creative Commons by foter.com.

 

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New Add-on for Google Forms

Check this out to add something to your Google Forms Surveys.  New Add-ons

 

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Create Your Own Storybook from mystorybook.com

This looks like a neat story book creating site that would be great for language students as well as younger students.

My Story Book

 

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Murder at Stillwater Lodge

Official Announcement for my new novel “Murder At Stillwater Lodge”

This is the official announcement for my new novel “Murder At Stillwater Lodge”

Murder at Stillwater Lodge

Read and Write for Google is Free For Educators

Read and Write for Google is a Google Chrome extension.   It is available in the Google Chrome Store .  Once you have installed the trial version, you can register as an educator, and the extension is free.  The yearly subscription is normally $100. The registration is on the upper right hand corner of  of a Drive document.  Listed below are some of the things Google Read and Write can do.  Also check out TextHELP for more information on this useful  extension.

  • Read Aloud with dual-color highlighting
  • Word Prediction
  • Translator
  • Talking and Picture Dictionaries
  • Fact Finder
  • Highlighters and ability to collect highlights
  • Vocabulary Builder to easily create a list of words with text definitions and images
  • Annotations (PDF and ePub)
  • Navigational tools (PDF and ePub)

Google Search Education

Google Search Education provides Common Core aligned lesson plans for beginner, intermediate, and  advanced Google Search users.  Learning how to interpret and refine searches may well be one of the most important skills that we can master in the 21st Century.  This is the link to the the homepage with very interesting links to multiple resources on Google Searches.     Homepage

 

Check out the “Live Training Videos”.  I found the video on “Believe it or not: Authority and credibility of sources on the web”  particular interesting.  The video “Creative Commons” is critical as everyone should by using creative searches in order to respect copyright  laws.

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How to Get a Real Education-Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut on getting a real education from the Huffington Post. Someone asked an author friend of mine why he bothered to write? Here’s the answer in a letter from Kurt Vonnegut written to a high school . “How to Get a Real Education”

Using Twitter to Grow Your PLN and Pinterest Tools

How to use Twitter to grow your PLN from Edutopia.    Five Good Pinterest Tools for Teachers by Med Kharbach

Ten Podcasting Projects from “We are Teachers”

Here are some ideas for creative ideas for podcasting in the classroom.

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