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Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki
Through Voki, a Web 2.0 tool, students create customizable avatars for class presentations for various purposes, such as presenting biographical information, expressing an opinion, or reading a poem.
Great Films and How to Teach Them
Grades
9 - 12
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Professional Library
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Book
Great Films and How to Teach Them
Costanzo offers high school and college teachers an updated, expanded edition that contains 80% new material on teaching film, including study guides of 14 new film with relevant ways to engage their students through a medium that students know and love.
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
Grades
7 - 12
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Professional Library
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Book
Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit).
9 - 12

Picture an American

Teaching Comics
6 - 12

A Different Point of View for a Comic

After reading Great Immigrants, Great Americans: The Comic Book, students will revise a comic from the perspective of another character in the original story, allowing the new narrator to be the main character.

Teaching Comics
6 - 12

The Value that Immigrants Bring to Our Community: A Socratic Seminar

Teaching Comics
6 - 12

Multimodal Text Sets Strategy Guide

Teaching Comics
Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Recurring Lesson
Weekly Writer's Blogs: Building a Reflective Community of Support
Students explore the conventions of blog writing while using it to self-reflect on their writing and communicate with classmates about each other's reflections.
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Persuading Readers with Endorsement Letters
Students explore the genre of commercial endorsements, establishing characteristics and requirements for the genre. Each student then composes an endorsement of a product, service, company, or industry.
Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.
Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Students explore the genre of posters, review informational writing and visual design, and then design poster presentations to share in class or at a school-wide fair.
Technology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Technology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
Students research and report on instances of how copyright laws have adapted to encompass new technologies. They write articles predicting copyright issues that may arise with new and future technologies.
Copyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Copyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
Students investigate how and why copyright law has changed over time, and apply this information to recent copyright issues, creating persuasive arguments based on the perspective of a particular group.
Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing
Students investigate issues of plagiarism, fair use, and paraphrasing using KWL charts, discussion, and practice.
It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging ideas with other students and sharing important events in their lives through PowerPoint presentations.
Love of War in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Love of War in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"
Students explore the theme of love of war through texts on camaraderie among soldiers. They then compose a visual collage depicting their beliefs about the relationship between love and war.
Grades
8 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Analyzing and Podcasting About Images of Oscar Wilde
Students analyze images of Oscar Wilde used to publicize his 1882 American lecture tour. They then compare a caricature to another researched image, sharing this analysis in a podcast.
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Grades
6 - 10
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Creating a Persuasive Podcast
Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.

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