toolsforteachers

New from the Smithsonian - 3d! [] Find downloadable 3d files of Smithsonian artifacts!
 * Smithsonian 3D**

**Books that support CCSS** []

  Resources for Teachers and Librarians from Publishers Weekly
 * Common Core Resources**

  LOC Database for teachers featuring Common Core based Lessons!

 Common Core Live Binder for Librarians Common Core Listly for Librarians

 **Digital Storytelling** 

 **21st Century Information Literacy/CCSS Crosswalk** 

 **21st Century Skills Lesson Plan Database** 

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Other tools**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Recite This Create artwork for quotes.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Edcanvas <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5;">create "playlists" of articles and media for your students.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Educational Hashtags for Twitter Tweet much? If not, are you a follower? These hashtags can help you find just the tweets you need!
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">2012 Twitter Hashtags
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Graphite.org Best apps, games and online curricula.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Planbook.com Nominal fee for an online lesson planning site - includes links to standards.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Digital Goonies Blog for best in education sites.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">New York Times - Teaching with the Times
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Library of Congress Tools for Teachers Need help using Primary sources? Look no further!
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">National Archives Documents <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5;">DocsTeach resource for Primary Sources through the National Archives
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #484848; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Higher Order Thinking and Thinker's Tools This wiki has a variety of ideas for higher order thinking skills, graphic organizers, etc.

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Blooms Taxonomy for the Digital Age <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Andrew Churches' Educational Origami

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 * Online Portfolios**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Making Presentations Pop** [] - Narrate your PowerPoint presentations for a fuller, richer student experience. [] - Add pop-up comments, illustrations, etc to videos from YouTube, or those you've created.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Get 'em talking** [|Padlet] (formerly Wallwisher) a virtual, embeddable sticky note board for brainstorming, backchanneling and discussion. [|VoiceThread] not just for storytelling, pose a question and hear answers in voice and/or video

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Polling** Poll Everywhere : easy flexible polls for web or mobile Doodle : schedule meetings,make simple choices <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> InfuseLearning : ask open ended, text, multiple choice questions; set up quizzes

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Safari Montage (through AIU)** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">

Proquest Database Info <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The official ProQuest LibGuide. This link include user guides for the various databases as well as training videos, support and the official ProQuest Twitter feed!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Center for Creativity <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">

Best Apps for teaching and learning <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">

Apps for teaching


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #993300; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Best websites for teaching and learning.. **

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Pinterest Digital Citizenship board <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">PInterest Digital Citizenship Board

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Nonfiction text features - Information Text CCSS

Library of Congress Interactive Primary Source Analysis Tool <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="color: #2954d1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;">