Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating an Online Community Through Electronic Portfolios

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this series of lessons, students learn the purpose of an electronic portfolio; use Google Blogger to create such a portfolio of their best work, including multimedia extensions as desired; and respond to each other's work online using...
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Other

Gov Loop: Tips and Resources: Creating Accessible Digital Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
With the massive shift to virtual work and education, it has become crucial that we strive to make all the content we put online accessible, particularly to people with disabilities who often experience barriers to accessing content....
Article
New York Times

New York Times: Interns? No Bloggers Need Apply

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the implications of employees including company information in personal blogs. Click on link to a lesson plan where students discuss the issues and create their own blogs.
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Other

Learnit Educational Community: Webpage Creation

For Students 9th - 10th
A basic explanation of what factors need to be considered when creating a webpage or a blog.
Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Elizabeth Venditto, "Immigrant Stories: Ways of Preserving and Teaching"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article focuses teaching student to create digital immigrant stories. Immigrant Stories teaches participants to create digital stories about their personal or family immigration experiences. Digital stories are brief (3-5 minute)...
Article
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: The Sedimentary Processes of Transgression and Regression

For Students 9th - 10th
This article gives a detailed explanation of how transgression and regression of sea levels work to create deposits of sedimentary rocks. Illustrations show the layering that takes place over time. The article discusses how geologists...
Unit Plan
Other

Kid Citizen: Snap a Photo: Agent of Change

For Students 3rd - 5th
How did photographers help convince Congress to pass child labor laws? This module explores some of Lewis Hine's photographs that exposed children's working conditions and advocated for child labor laws to protect them. In this tutorial,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Strategies to Build Engaging Digital Lessons for High School Students

For Students 9th - 10th
In this blog, a teacher offers strategies for building engaging digital lessons as a result of the Covid Pandemic. My first task is to figure out how to make my lessons clear. I am working without the benefit of being able to circle the...
Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: How to Get High Quality Student Work in Pbl

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article and video addresses the ability of students to produce quality work which is a common concern of teachers with Project Based Learning. Learn how to guide students to create high quality...
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Other

Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

For Students 9th - 10th
One 21st Century way of helping students stay in touch with the real world is to utilize technology. There are several online leadership projects for classrooms to use.
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Other

Rss Specifications

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of articles about RSS news feeds and contains "everything you need to know about RSS". The articles on various topics are available via RSS feed and podcast.Users select the RSS feeds (content) they wish to...