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Education & Computer Connection Newsletter ISSN# 1092-6011
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Texas Schools, Resources & Links
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TAKS ELA/Reading
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TAKS Math
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TAKS Science
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Texas Teacher/Educator's Employment, Jobs and Resouces
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TAKS Test Tips & Strategies
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"StateTest-taking" Strategies, Resources and Links
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TAKS, TEKS and H.O.T.S
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TAKS-M/TAKS-Alt/TAKS-A
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Texas Educator's Resources
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Texas School Librarian
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Fort Worth, TX/Tarrant County Resources & Links
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Texas History Teachers
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Texas Independent School Districts (A-I)
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Texas Independent Schools (J-Z)
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Texas Charter Schools
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Teachers
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Bilingual Links & Resources
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ESL/TESL/TEFL/TESOL/EFL/ESOL
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Graphic Organizers/Templates
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Creating Rubrics
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Hot Links for Educators
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Novel Units
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Student/ Beginning Teachers
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Technology Integration
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Teacher's Tools
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Teacher's Tools & Printables
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Old English Fonts, Letter, Alphabet
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DYI/Do It Yourself Tools
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Students
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On-line References/Facts
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The Homework Connection
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Federal Resources for Students
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Safety Resources for Parents and Students
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NIE: Newspapers in Education
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Study Skills
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For Kids Only
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Coloring Pages
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Doodle,Doohickey & Thingamajig
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Canada for Kids
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50 States for Kids
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For Kids Only
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Interactive Websites for Kids
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Home Schooling
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Home Schooling Resources & Links
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Thematic Unit: Farm Animals
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Holidays
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Black History Month
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Cambodia New Year
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Earth Day
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National Craft Month
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Native American Indian Hertiage Month
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Presidents' Day
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National Women's History Month
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Units of Study
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Thematic Units
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Presidental Election of 2008
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Sunflower Thematic Unit, Resources and Links
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Units & Themes
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Curriculum Units
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Holocaust Links
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Lesson Plans
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Metacognition/H.O.T.S
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Best Lesson Plans
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SDAIE Lessons & Strategies
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Technology Resources
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Technology Coordinator
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Education & Technology
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Public School Administrator
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School Administrators Resources
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Alaska School Districts
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Arizona School Districts
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Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS)
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Arkansas Public Schools
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Canada Schools
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Colorado School Districts
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Texas Independent School Districts from A to Z
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Texas Independent School District Administrators
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Utah Public Schools
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Link and Resources for Language Arts: ESL/TESL/TEFL/TESOL/EFL/ESOL
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Poetry as We See It
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Poetry as We See it was designed to help upper elementary students learn about poetic elements, including repetition, personification, and simile. The site includes definitions, samples, examples, original poetry written by team members, and classical examples of poetic elements. There are also practice pages to test what you've learned, a multiple choice
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Learning with Mysteries
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Everybody loves a good mystery.They're engaging, entertaining, and they give that satisfying 'Aha!' Mysteries are great for teaching critical thinking, reading, and writing skills, and utilize a higher higher order level of learning as defined in Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Word Octagon
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Change one letter at a time in the center word with different letters to make at least eight new words.
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Interesting Things for ESL Students
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"This web site is for an excellent resource for people studying English
as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). It
contains many activities including quizzes, word games, word puzzles,
proverbs, slang expressions, and anagrams. Even though the primary
focus is for ESL, native English speakers may also find some interesting
things on this site. This site is very easy to navigate and easy to read."
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TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links
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Links of Interest to Students & Teachers of English as a Second Language
Maintained by The Internet TESL Journal
There are currently 7702 registered links.
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Poetry Quest
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Your Quest:
"Your group is to search out and research a particular poetry form, such as a limerick, sonnet, cinquain, haiku, tanka, ode, concrete, etc. and prepare a lesson plan to present to the rest of the class. In effect, you will become the experts on this poem form and will teach everyone else in the class how to do it, as well as the background and history of this form."
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Dr. Grammar
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"Everyone has questions about language, usage, and punctuation. When
you're unsure whether to use who or whom, just call on Dr. Grammar,
an English professor at the University of Northern Iowa who "lives
for this stuff."
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KidPub
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"This site gets a lot of traffic and posts plenty of stories written by children and teenagers. Rather than see this as a "vanity press" where the main objective is to see yourself in print, teachers could use it as a searchable resource for sample stories and potential collaborators for their students. Students can also add their writing to interactive stories."
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Write a Story
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Write a Story on-line. "You can try the writing center ideas right here online. Instead of using paper to write down the kids' stories, you can write them here. Kids will enjoy seeing their stories published in a colorful environment."
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Web English Teacher
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"Web English Teacher presents the best of online English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities."
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The English Room
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"For teachers who wish to explore poetry with their students, take a look at 30 Days of Poetry. Students have a poetry writing assignment each of the 30 days, or teachers can assign several types of poems for students to experience."
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Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky
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"Poetry's cool and a lot of fun! In this workshop, I will help you turn your words and ideas into descriptive and powerful poems. As you explore the world of poetry writing, I'll share with you writing tips that I use when I write my poems, as well as ideas for revising your work. When you complete the workshop, you can create a special edition of your poem signed by me! I won't be commenting on your poems, but I'll enjoy reading them after you've posted them online."
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American Dreams
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History, Literature, Interdisciplinary, Activity
"This WebQuest activity challenges students to define the American Dream and take a look at their own dreams.
The objectives of this site are to define, present and defend their ideas on the American Dream through the
decades; analyze, interpret, and conduct research using digitized primary source documents; interpret 19th and 20th century social life in the United States using digitized documents from the American Memory collection; and relate what they have uncovered from inquiry and research to their own American Dream."
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Haiku Poems
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A short, three-line poem with the form: 5,7,5 syllables.
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Limericks
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Resources,teaching ideas and contests.
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Dialogue Tips for Writers
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"...Dialogue should fulfill the following roles in the manuscript:
1) advance the plot,
2) reveal character,
3) reveal motivation,
4)substitute for narrative, and
5) establish tone or mood. If the dialogue doesn’t fill one of these
criteria, then it probably can be removed without adversely affecting
the story..."
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Phrase Finder
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"Does for phrases what a thesaurus does for words. Give it a word and retrieve a list of related phrases."
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Language Arts @ Teachnet.Com
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Character Education Word Walls Spice up your Spelling Words Writing Workshop Non-linear writing Christmas between the lines Hieroglyphic Art Project PROJECT - Letters to Santa Newspaper Activities Creative Writing Morphing Relating Non-related Ideas with Creative Writing Writing Letters-to-the-Editor I'm Dreaming of a Rhyme Christmas Resume Writing
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Learn English-Have Fun!
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"A fun free site full of crosswords,
Word searches, games, jokes, and tests
for learners of English. Regularly up-
dated."
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Listening Booth
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"...Audio clips includes poems featured in our Poetry Exhibits and samples from the Academy's audiotape archives. All poems are read by their authors, unless otherwise noted."
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Gaggle.net
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"Hundreds of classrooms now use the Gaggle Network to provide safe, teacher-controlled e-mail accounts for
students. SIGN UP NOW and bring your classroom into the new millennium."
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ESL Standards: Grades 4-8
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...content-based ESL class English Proficiency Level: Beginning...
...students are high beginning- to advanced-level ESL students. The...
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Getting Started: Approaches to ESL Teaching
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"A Communicative Approach calls for learning activities that are genuine
communication..."
"The Total Physical Approach is useful for beginning ESL learners, since
students are not required to speak initially but to respond with physical
movement to various commands..."
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LITTLE EXPLORERS
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Picture Dictionary with Links
"1,460 illustrated dictionary entries! Each word is used in a meaningful example sentence. Most entries have links to a related web site. Just click on an underlined word (or picture), and you'll link to a great web site related to it." (See example below)
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All About Nature: Animal Printouts
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Example :Butterfly Life cycle
See how a butterfly starts out as an egg, hatches into a caterpillar, becomes
a pupa, then emerges as a fully-grown adult.
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Englishtown: The Place to Learn English
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"Englishtown is the Internet's largest FREE website for English. Take a course in our online school, find a pen
pal in our community, test your English for free - Everything about English is right here!"
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Create-a-Paper (Language Arts)
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"Welcome to the Rio Salado College "Create-a-Paper Template." This template is designed to guide you through the first stages of creating the rough draft of a standard five-paragraph paper. If you fill in the blanks, carefully following each set of instructions, you will leave this page with a rough draft ready to format, revise, and polish for submission.
Please let us know if you find this template useful!"
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My Hero
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Who's your hero? Is it your dad, your best friend or your high-school English teacher? This Web site seeks your input. "The My Hero Project offers children, teachers and their parents a powerful way to combine cutting-edge technologies with timeless values and old-fashioned storytelling, while opening windows to the world around us. We invite you, your family, friends, classroom or organization to join us in our ongoing celebration of great heroes. By linking these new Web pages to our bank of stories (thousands of pages long!) you can be part of this unique online event honoring the best of humanity."
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ESL Plans
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ESL Lesson Plans/Activities
ESL Resources
Links to other great resources.
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ESL TEACHING RESOURCES:
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A resource guide of teaching methods for ESL instructors, from New Brunswick, Canada, Dept. of Education. Tips for approaches to teaching;
teaching and learning methods, appendices for activities at all levels.
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For ESL teachers:
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23 categories and over 400 activities and suggestions in this teacher exchange. Valuable tips available for all teachers, not just ESL; such as
Discipline, Ice Breakers; Listening & Comprehension, etc.
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How to Make Inquiry Maps
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" The questions are graphically linked with the findings (and possibly to emerging questions.) In the case of an inquiry map on a wall, these can be linked by colored string or thread. For a three-ring binder version, at then end of each question is the page number of the answer(s). In the case of a hypertext version, the link is made with html tags."
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