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====[|Thinkfinity] is a web space that is full of ways to help you use technology in your classroom. It has many tools to help you develop lesson plans in your subject area. Links are jointly maintained and sponsored by professional organizations such as NCTM, NCTE, and others. There is a search able database of activities that can be manipulated by grade level and subject area. There are resources to help you learn to use the site. For a [|tour,] you can go to this link. ====

 Here is a list of the organizations that participate.


====A friend of mine, Frank Miracola of the Macomb Michigan RESA is one of the people responsible for the page that this links to. If you want to really get into this resource, there are a number of helpful[| tutorials available there.] ====

====Another resource that is there for the taking is the Free and ad-free ebooks site called[| Many Books]. Since all of your students in the grades for which this might apply have laptops, try having them read one on the laptop. They can edit it, underline and all of those things with the .pdf reader we have on the laptops. ====

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==== Because there is really no other category for this I am including it here. This is a site to help you find teaching strategies and materials for using with different students. There are su ====

====ggestions about s[|trategies and then if you continue clicking], some lesson plans and other resources to help you use the strategies. It has been developed in Canada. ====

Also Scholastic has a resource to find [|good stuff to use here].


===Another online resource filled with practical ideas is the [|National Writing Project]. Along with ideas of people responsible for the project, you will find ideas from teachers that might be helpful to you. ===

 Here are some ideas for history teachers.
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====I just learned History Eyewitness podcasts [| from the BBC]. If you teach history, you will probably want to explore it.====