Resources

   Resources for 21st Century Literacies: @http://bit.ly/eiR63n   Google Sites Resources @http://www.scoop.it/t/google-sites-resources

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Must Read: **When Passion Drives Instruction, No Child is Left Behind** @http://huff.to/gHBelS Professional Learning Communities: [] 26 Keys to Student Engagement @http://ow.ly/2IJmS

Classwish @http://ow.ly/2Gy7K Great site for helping get classroom resources to schools and teachers

Blog? Wiki? Docs? Which One Should I Use? This chart rocks! @http://bit.ly/d0GFOy

 MUST Bookmark! Directory of Educational Resources on the Web @http://ow.ly/2GuBA Franki Sibberson uses whole-class interviews in writing workshop to build community, and finds the interviews are a great assessment tool early in the year. The article includes templates: @http://www.choiceliteracy.com/public/411.cfm

Wordle is a free word mapping tool on the web that has lots of fun possibilities for the start of the school year. 46 Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom has suggestions for using Wordle as a tool for building curriculum and community with colleagues and students: @https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddcws83v_159nx583xg8

Teachers love having students explore the history of their names or create timelines as an icebreaker and community building activity in the first week of school. Carol Wilcox has a provocative (and heartbreaking) post about how difficult this activity can be for adopted or abused children. If you're planning activities around students' names, you'll definitely want to consider Carol's perspective: @http://bit.ly/dzuHGE

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Rubistar is a great tool for teachers to be able to create unique rubrics for project-based learning activities. <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Puzzlemaker by Discovery Education is a great resource in helping you create dozens of different puzzle worksheets for your students from a simple wordsearch to a more difficult crossword. You are able to enter in your own questions and answers. <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">