PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
Other
Gov Loop: Tips and Resources: Creating Accessible Digital Communication
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....
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Hub Spot: How to Create a Survey in Excel, Word, Google, Facebook, & Survey Monkey
Learn how to create a survey in Excel, Word, Google, Facebook, and SurveyMonkey.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Blog: "Fairy Circles" Explained
This article describes how termites create circular patterns of bare soil known as "fairy circles" in the grasslands of southern Africa.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Decolonizing the Map: Creating the Indigenous Mapping Collective
For many Indigenous communities, mapping plays a large role in reclaiming their lands. Mapping is not new to Indigenous peoples, in fact, some of the world's earliest maps can be seen in cave paintings or heard in the stories that have...
New York Times
New York Times: Interns? No Bloggers Need Apply
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.
Other
Miguel Guhlin: Around the Corner
Mr. Guhlin is director of Instructional Technology Services for the San Antonio ISD, a doctoral student at the University of Texas San Antonio, a prolific writer and speaker, and producer of the blog Around the Corner. For high end users...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Elizabeth Venditto, "Immigrant Stories: Ways of Preserving and Teaching"
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)...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Grainne Mc Evoy, "Child Refugees: Our Present Informing Our Past"
This article focuses on issues both historical and current concerning the immigration of large numbers of unaccompanied minors and the problems it creates.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Social Media Guidelines
Read about the ways in which educators can create social media guidelines that work to keep students safe.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Sedimentary Processes of Transgression and Regression
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...
Federation of American Scientists
Fas: National Security Policy Arms Control Disarmament
A lengthy essay describing the negotiations and politics involved in President Kennedy's quest to create a permanent ban on nuclear tests.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Marlene Epp, "Narrating the Canadian Mosaic: Immigration and Ethnicity"
This article focuses on Canada's efforts to create a series of booklets about the immigration for each ethnic group in Canada. Thus far they have completed 34 booklets. They have 200 different ethnic groups in Canada.
Other
Building Characters With Adversity
Extensive and very interesting article advising the reader on how to develop characters through adversity.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Strategies to Build Engaging Digital Lessons for High School Students
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...
Other
Brainspire: Technology and Society: How Technology Changed Our Lives
This article discusses how technology and society change each other. When technologies change, societies change as well and those changes often result in the need for more technology. This creates a cyclical relationship between the two....
International Literacy Association
International Literacy Association: How to Help Students Interpret Digital Texts
How can we help students to move beyond summary and toward interpretation? A combination of digital popular culture modeling, heuristics, and choice - along with digital composition - can initiate that process. Interpretation combines...
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Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative
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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Rss Specifications
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...