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Tech Learning: Introduction to Blogs and Blogging
This article introduces the concept of blogs, gives links to blogs that deal with topics in education, ideas for using blogs for student writing and information on setting up your own blog. After reading this article you should be able...
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Fanschool: Blogs for Teachers and Students
Fanschool provides a safe and simple blogging platform for students in both elementary and middle schools. Teachers have administrative control over all student blogs and accounts, and blogs are only viewable by classmates and the...
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Grammarly Blog: Dashes
This page focuses on the rules for the use of dashes. Explains what a dash is, what it does, and the three formats of dashes (em, en, and the double hyphen). Examples are provided with the "dash" used in different contexts.
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Grammarly Blog: Parentheses and Brackets
Rules and examples for using parentheses and brackets correctly in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: Adjectives and Adverbs What's the Difference?
This blog article focuses on adjectives and adverbs including their purpose and the confusion between them. It offers links pertaining to adjective and adverb use and misuse.
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Grammarly Blog: What Are Modifiers? How to Use Them Correctly
This page focuses on modifiers including what modifiers are -- adjectives, adverbs, and descriptive phrases and clauses; misplaced modifiers and how to correct them; and limiting modifiers and how to use them. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Comma After Introductory Clauses
Rules and examples for using commas correctly with an introductory clause.
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Grammarly Blog: Verb Tense Consistency: Grammar Rules
This page focuses on the need for verb tense consistency on a clause level. It is important to maintain the same verb tense in a clause; if the time changes, use a second sentence.
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Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will also...
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Grammarly Blog: Intensive Pronouns
An explanation with examples of intensive pronouns and how they are used in sentences, as well as how they differ from reflexive pronouns.
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Grammarly Blog: Using the Future Continuous Tense
This page explains what future continuous (progressive) tense means and how it is formed and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Future Perfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense
This page explains what future perfect continuous (progressive) tense means and how it is formed; examples are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Conjunctions
This page focuses on conjunctions including what conjunctions are; the types of conjunctions: Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating; how to start sentences with conjunctions, examples of each of the above, and lists for each type...
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Teachers First: Wiki Walk Through
Get expert advice on how to use a Wiki in your classroom. Easy to follow thoughts and ideas.
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The Tongue Untied: Quotation Marks
Learn more about using quotation marks properly through this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from this helpful site.
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The Tongue Untied: Clauses: The Basics
This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of a clause, an independent clause, and a dependent clause as well as some brief instructions on their uses. The page seems to contain some...
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Seo Click: How to Apply Advanced Search Techniques in Google 2020
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Google's Advanced Search tool to look for web pages, images, and videos. You will also learn about advanced search operator and shortcuts you can use.
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The Tongue Untied: Conjunctions
Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers a good definition and numerous examples of coordinating conjunctions. Also has hyperlinks to sections on subordinating conjunctions,...
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Azoomee: E Safety Lesson 5: Spending Time Online
In this video lesson [1:56], learners learn how to identify the benefits of a healthy balance with technology.
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Scholastic: Pre Reading Activities: Signs and Symbols
As young children begin keying into symbols, they are making a huge conceptual leap: they're learning that a picture can convey a message. The following anecdotes track practical applications of children's interactions with...
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Azoomee: E Safety Lesson 1: How to Be Kind
A lesson about how to identify kindness online. [2:09]
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Oxo: Behind the Design of the New Oxo Pop Containers
This article describes the process by which an engineer at OXO looked at design, size, and variety when he redesigned OXO's line of POP containers.
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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.
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Oxford University Press: Oxford Dictionaries: Affect or Effect: A Visual Guide
This is a dictionary entry explaining how to use affect and effect using comic pictures.