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Last Chance for this College-credit Tech-for-writing Class

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Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. Office).

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Vivid Vocabulary, Common Core, & Tech Integration Tools

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With the shifts of the Common Core , students need to spend time learning both Tier 2 and Tier 3 words in a variety of ways. By interacting with vocabulary, students absorb the word''s meaning and learn to appropriately use it in a variety of contexts ( Common Core Appendix A ). Lingro is an online dictionary.

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Last Chance for this College-credit Class

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Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. What You Get.

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Collaboration and Management in Google Apps

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One of my favorite collaborative tools include Google Apps for Education. The presentation below was created for a training I offered regarding collaborating in Google Apps and tips for management with those tools. What are ways you use Google Apps to collaborate with others? What management tips would you add to this?

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169 Tech Tip #127: 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes

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These are like the games students love and teach important to Common Core standards as well as the demands of life. Provide homework via a screencast or a Google Hangout and then do a project using the skill during class time. . In fact, any chance you have, differentiate instruction. Flip the classroom.

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

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One of the most popular English lessons in the instructional marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is a unit on how to teach William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks.

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PracTutor

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PracTutor is an excellent all-in-one mobile (iOS/Google Play) app for Math grades K-8th. PracTutor is aligned to Common Core Standards and each state curriculum. Finally, PracTutor generates detail reports making it easy for teachers to differentiate instruction.