This tool guides students through the creation of a resume that can be saved and edited. Written and audio tips provide extra support.
Resume Generator
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Trading Card Creator
3 - 12
Student Interactive
| Organizing & Summarizing
This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
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Connection Web
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
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Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
Grades
5 - 12
Strategy Guide
This strategy guide introduces the RAFT technique and offers practical ideas for using this technique to teach students to experiment with various perspectives in their writing.
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Reading on the Go
Grades
5 - 12
Strategy Guide
In this Strategy Guide, learn how to prepare yourself and your students for reading and note-taking in mobile environments.
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Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
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Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
Grades
5 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki
Grades
6 - 12
Strategy Guide
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.
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
K - 12
Professional Library
| Position Statement
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
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Help Wanted: Writing Professional Resumes
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Unit
Students will create a beginning resume that represents their current work experience and demonstrates their knowledge of rhetorical situations for professional writing.
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Exploring Careers Using the Internet
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Doctors, astrophysicists, and daycare providers are only some of the careers that will be explored in this lesson in which students research careers and publish occupational summaries about them.
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Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
6 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!
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Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
2 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
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Resumes and Cover Letters for High School Students
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Unit
High school students are taught how to use resumes and cover letters to highlight their skills and make them stand out, whether applying to college or for a job.
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Digital Word Detectives: Building Vocabulary With e-Book Readers
2 - 6
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Students in grades 2-6 use digital dictionaries and other e-book tools to learn new vocabulary as they read e-books on digital reading devices.
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e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
5 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students in grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.
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Going Digital: Using e-Book Readers to Enhance the Reading Experience
2 - 4
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students use various tools and features of digital readers to develop vocabulary, support comprehension, respond to text, improve fluency, and enhance the reading experience.
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Using Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Critical Thinking
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Students learn that dogs are more than just pets in this lesson, which teaches them to use research and vocabulary-acquisition strategies to learn and write about working dogs.
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The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
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Media Literacy: Examining the World of Television Teens
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Pop culture and the classroom collide in this lesson when students go behind the scenes to analyze a television series for characterization to use in an original television show proposal.