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Blogging for Reluctant Writers: Have students share their ideas using sound and video
Here Richard Byrne covers sound and video applications that enable students to blog—without writing, from SoundCloud and Animoto to a new audio slideshow tool called Narrable.
The Best PowerPoint Alternatives for Creating Great Presentations
We’ve all endured “death by PowerPoint.” It’s a painful experience for the audience and probably not all that fun for the presenter either. To help students deliver effective presentations—free of those deadly bullet points—SLJ columnist Richard Byrne cites his go-to applications.
Getting Kids Engaged with Primary Sources | Cool Tools
Primary resources can help bring history to life for students. Make the most of first-hand accounts and other primary source content with tools such as the National Archives' Digital Vaults, video tour included.
Top Tools for Upgrading Your Resume | Cool Tools
It’s spring, a time when students start looking for summer jobs or internships—and that requires some attention to their resumes and portfolios. In this month's "Cool Tools," Richard Byrne taps the best applications for creating an online showcase of your best work.
Alternative Search Tools: These options to Google will help students become better researchers
Cool Tools columnist Richard Byrne presents some free options for research that don’t require a login, along with a few quick tips to aid student searches.
Planning Common Core Lessons?: Free, Web-based applications can help align your plans with the new standards
Ready or not, here they come. At almost every school I visited this year, teachers asked me to address the Common Core (CC) standard in my workshops. Planning lessons with CC in mind presents a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. These sites are designed with the express purpose of helping plan lessons around Common Core.
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