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Awesome Stories
====Awesome Stories' story-driven, evidence-based teaching and learning platform features over 3400 Awesome Stories-authored story learning guides with over 100,000 primary sources. ==== ====Using story guides, videos, audios, documents and images, students engage, research, think critically, reflect and communicate to succeed as 21st century learners. ====

Educator Guide for Download
A free Resousource. The following is taken directly from the site: @http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/resourcecats/educator-guides/ Thematic and curriculum connections for picture books, beginning readers, and middle grade books. Prepared by educators, these guides are designed to excite students about literature while saving you valuable lesson preparation time. = = =Resources for Free and Inexpensive Books=

See the media coordinator about this resource || LibriVox ||
 * Google Books || We Give Books ||
 * HathiTrust || Unite for Literacy ||
 * Open Library || Storyline Online ||
 * Bookshare

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Presentation

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Tech Evaluation Needs Survey

Professional Development Needs Survey

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Richard Byrne Blog

=NC WiseOwl=

=Check Websites for Classroom Use=

=Picture Books to Teach Comprehension Strategies= Picture Books and Strategies Various comprehension strategies are listed along with picture books to teach the highlighted strategy. Prompts are listed to spark conversations to help students master each strategy.

=Lexile Measures on YouTube= Lexile YouTube More information about lexile measures and choosing "just right books"

=Best Find!!! InfuseLearning= Infuselearning.com A must try site. Free! Free! Use with PCs, Kindle Fires and iPads. Create questions, quizzes or ask a verbal question and immediately get a response from your students. Embed images in your questions. Students are able to respond in multiple ways even by drawing a picture. Receive student responses in Excel or PDF forms. Students go to the website, type in a number and are able to join you.

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=YouTube Channel= @http://www.youtube.com/user/carlasittig I have posted some videos on using the calendar.

Google Apps Education Training Modules Provides online training modules for mail, calendar, docs, sites and others

=Featured Web Tool= Mentormob A great tool with much potential, but make sure you browse the academic examples and view how it is used in education.

Scribble Maps

Kerpoof

**Featured Websites** Watch Know Learn @http://www.watchknowlearn.org/ Organized educational videos

National Archives @http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/ Resources for planning and some great online exhibits.

Teaching with documents from the National Archive There are some great writing prompts that are derived from National Archive documents docsteach.org

Technology and 21st Century learning website
This is the Butler Area School District (PA I think) technology wiki. This wiki space includes training materials, lesson and integration ideas, discussion areas, and more to support the integration of technology and 21st Century learning skills into the classroom. You might get some good ideas! http://butlertech.wikispaces.com/