Wonderful Websites
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Flocabulary is an online library of educational hip-hop songs and videos for grades K-12. Over 20,000 schools use Flocabulary to engage and inspire students. Our team of artists and educators is not only committed to raising test scores, but also to fostering a love of learning in every child. https://www.flocabulary.com/
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Weebly is an educational site that is used to engage students to easily create personal sites and blogs or establish web presences for businesses, weddings, classrooms, churches, artistic portfolios, and more. http://education.weebly.com
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Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. Animoto is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco. https://animoto.com/
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BrainPOP is an educational games portal for the classroom. In traditional, blended, and "flipped" learning settings, BrainPOP supports individual, team, and whole-class learning. https://www.brainpop.com/
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Edutopia's vision is of a new world of learning based on the compelling truth that improving education is the key to the survival of the human race. Founded by director George Lucas, this site strives to bring real life experiences to the classroom. http://www.edutopia.org/
ReadWriteThink mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials. http://www.readwritethink.org/about/
Slideshare is a site that allows you to share slides from your presentations with others. http://www.slideshare.net/
Prezi is cloud-based, meaning you can present from your browser, desktop, iPad, or iPhone and always have the latest version of your work at your fingertips. http://prezi.com/
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere". https://www.khanacademy.org/
TeachersPayTeacher believe that real teachers create the most relevant and engaging educational resources. Their open marketplace model supercharges resource quality, quantity, and availability.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
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Sheppard Software create content and games for their website with these goals:
1) To add sound and visual effects to make learning fun and more memorable.
2) To design games with many difficulty levels so that players will continue to be challenged no matter how far they progress.
3) To provide games that will exercise players' brains
ReadWork is a free site that allows you to select the topic and Lexile level. There is also a tab that provides a Paired Text.
TiKi Toki is fun web site to create timelines for History. http://www.tiki-toki.com/account/
Create a graph is a site in which students can create graphic organizers. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/
getkahoot.com is a fun site that will will you in reviewing contents. kahootit.com (students)
YALSA honors the best teen literature each year with its six literary awards, announced each year at the ALA Midwinter Meeting.
This award, sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust, honors ten adult books with special appeal to teens. The Alex committee also publishes its official nomination list after the awards announcement.
The Margaret A. Edwards Award, sponsored by School Library Journal, honors an author and specific works by that author for significant and lasting contribution for writing to teens.
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, funded by the William C. Morris Endowment, honors the best book by a previously unpublished author writing for teens. A shortlist is announced in December each year.
The YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award honors the best nonfiction written for teens each year. The Nonfiction committee also publishes its official nomination list after the awards announcement.
The Odyssey Award honors the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States. The award is co-administered with the Association for Library Service to Children
The Michael L. Printz Award, sponsored by Booklist, honors the best book written for teens each year.