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Evernote - Students Can Create A Digital Backpack

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Today's Chat with Deb shows the incredible app, Evernote .  This app will allow students to create a digital backpack with digital notebooks and notes.  A mobile phone or tablet allows you to add images and audio to the digital notes. There is also the ability to share notes with others and set reminders for tests or exams.  Evernote Web Clipper makes it easy to clip any webpage directly to your Evernote notebooks. Watch this Chat with Deb to see how it is all done: If you have an idea of how students or teachers can put Evernote to use, leave a comment below. Thank you to Intel's Teachers Engage for sponsoring this Chat with Deb.

High School Math Sites with a Little Something for ELA and Science Too

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Here are some websites that can be integrated into an existing lesson or provide a fully prepared lesson for High School Math Teachers. If you are a teacher of ELA or Science, check out #3 below. #1 - Free Online Resources from Courseware - Brought to us by the CEMC.   If you are a teacher of pre calculus or calculus, these are free online courses with videos, quizzes and exercises.  Parts of the site are under construction. Each lesson is broken into modules. Thank you to my colleague, Anthony, for sharing this with me. #2 - Transum.org offers math games, puzzles, resources and much more for Upper Secondary and High School students.  There is an option to sign up for an account and create a class. Transum offers a large number of free games and puzzles.  There is a lot to explore on this site. #3 - Better Lesson  offers thousands of K-12 rich Math, ELA and Science lessons from high performing Master Teachers. Math lessons ELA lessons

High School Teachers will Love Curriculet

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High School ELA and Literacy teachers are going to love Curriculet ! Curriculet is a digital layer of questions, quizzes, and rich media layered on top of top of any text.  As students read a text, questions, quizzes and annotations pop out of the text, so that students are instructed and assessed as they read. . . at just the right moment. Text can be a file uploaded from your computer or the URL of a website. Once a text is uploaded to your library, you can edit the Curriculet and add a question, quiz or annotation.  Selecting text can also help teachers or students to define a word.  For example, here I used the URL of a website (from CNN.com about the white and gold / blue and black dress). When editing the Curriculet, I highlighted a bit of text and added an annotation which gave a link to the meaning of a part of the text. I also added a question, (this is different than a quiz).  Every question or quiz can be linked directly to the Com