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Designs by Nick Finck: The Why and How of Blogging

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you want a simple introduction to blogging? This site utilizes large graphics in a step-by-step format to walk you though what a blog is, some examples of blogs, the tools of blogging, the different types of blogs, and related topics.
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Landmarks for Schools: Blog Meister

For Teachers 9th - 10th
BlogMeister is a blogging tool developed for teachers as an authentic publishing environment to promote the development of effective communication skills in students. Teachers establish a blogging account by directly contacting the...
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Kathy Schrock's Educational Technology Blog Listing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Kathy Schrock provides a compiled list of educational technology blogs. Blogs from David Warlick, Alan November, and Will Richardson are included in the list, along with many other educational expert's blogs.
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I Safe: The Promise and Perils of Blogging [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The pros and cons of blogging are discussed. Suggestions are given for starting your own safe online blog.
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Quinnipiac University: Blogging Across the Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This online course was created for the Interactive Digital Design Department at Quinnipiac University and is designed to examine how weblogs are being used in academia. The various pages cover the basics of weblogs, how to use Blogger...
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History Blog: Family Looking for Broken Sewer Pipe Finds 2,500 Years of History

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating story about a family in Lecce, Italy, who made a major archaeological discovery while digging under their house to find the source of a problem in the pipes that led to a toilet. What they found instead was an entire...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Blog: Adverbs: What Do Adverbs Modify?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This blog focuses on adverbs, including what they modify, how to find them in sentences, degrees of adverbs, and examples of each.
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Grammarly Blog: What Do Adjectives Modify?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This blog article explains that adjectives modify nouns and provides examples. It also discusses predicate adjectives.
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Pbs Learning Media: Blogging, Civic Engagement and the Dream Act

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This multi-task lesson asks young scholars to look at the DREAM Act in the context of immigration reform and also to reflect on blogging as civic engagement.
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Gcf Global: Blog Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this tutorial, learn how to get started with a blog, as well as how to develop and promote it to find an audience.
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Find Law: Legal Blog Network

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a network of legal blogs on every type of law and provides the latest news about court cases including the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: A Wrinkle in Time Novel Study: Amy Palermo, River Trail Ms

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This interactive novel study provides a 21st Century approach for learners to understand Madeleine L'Engle's classic, A Wrinkle in Time. Students with develop PicCollages, create Audioboos (student-created version of Audiobooks), write...
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Florida Institute of Technology: Florida Tech Blog: The Physics of Football

For Students 9th - 10th
This 2011 poster from Florida Tech is called "Gridiron Science," and it tackles the physics of football. Researchers found that a better understanding of physics can actually help players improve their game! There's a reason quarterbacks...
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Grammarly Blog: What Are Adjectives?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This blog article explains what adjectives are, what they can do in sentences, and provides examples of each.
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Grammarly Blog: How to Write Better Essays: 5 Concepts You Must Master

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This blog article discusses essay writing including thesis development, strong form, style, conventions, and support and references.
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Gpb Blogs: Students Ask: How Do Meteorologists Predict the Weather?

For Students 9th - 10th
Today's post is a continuation of my communication with Ms. Jordan's 6th Grade Science Class at South Central Middle School! South Central MS is located in Emerson, Georgia, in Bartow County. They are very curious to know how...
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Grammarly Blog: Apostrophe Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the rules for the uses and misuses of the apostrophe including contractions and omissions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, how to write joint possession, plurals, apostrophes with surrounding punctuation, and...
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Grammarly Blog: Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site focuses on abbreviations including definitions, acronyms and initialisms, abbreviations for courtesy titles and academic degrees, Latin abbreviations, and other common abbreviations including time and dates, places, and units...
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Grammarly Blog: Double Negatives: 3 Rules You Must Know

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains the 3 rules for double negatives: each subject-predicate construction should only have one negative form, a double negative is a non-standard sentence construction that uses two negative forms, and standard English is...
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Grammarly Blog: Articles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains what articles are including the definite article "the" and the indefinite articles "a" and "an" and provides examples of their use and exceptions for the use of "a" and "an". It explains the rules for the uses of...
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Grammarly Blog: Quotation Marks: Rules How to Use Them Correctly

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the rules for using quotation marks correctly including general rules, when to use quotation marks; run-in and block quotations; quotation mark rules: quotations and capitalization, quotation marks and other...
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Grammarly Blog: Comma After Question Mark

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains how to puctuate a direct quotation that ends in a question mark or an explanation point. If the quote comes before the attributive tag, no comma is needed; if the attributive tag comes before the quote, a comma is...
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Grammarly Blog: Parallel Structure With Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of how to use parallel structure with clauses.
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Grammarly Blog: Double Comparatives and Superlatives

For Students 9th - 10th
This page focuses on forming comparatives and superlatives and the misuse of double comparisons and superlatives such as "most fastest."

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