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West Georgia RESA congratulates our Georgia Young Authors regional grade level winners! Thank you school and teacher leaders for promoting writing! tinyurl.com/WGRESAGYA22

TEACHERS! Learn from top scholars and visit the historic sites on the Trail of Tears: Reinhardt University's National Endowment for the Humanities Trail of Tears workshop. Deadline 3/1! funkheritagecenter.org/landm… #TrailofTears #NEH #Landmarks #Teachers

What a great teacher reminder. The comprehension we receive is only as deep as the comprehension we expect which is only as deep as the question/products we request.

Make sure students know the truth. Writing is re-writing. (1880, Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" manuscript).

Here's a colorful take on annotation. With color-coding guidelines, students can analyze a text by changing the font color (or old school highlighting) specific sections of text that accomplish a particular purpose. Example explanation: jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/vis…

Reminded today of timetoast.com where students can create timelines like this one showing events in The Crucible: timetoast.com/timelines/9542…

Logged into Canva (free educator account), searched for worksheets, found this one, downloaded it for most students, easily changed a few questions to scaffold for a few other readers, downloaded the new one too. Saved both to Google Drive. 5 minutes. Boom! Differentiation.

Teaching students to identify logical fallacies in arguments? Gotta have bookofbadarguments.com/ for examples of the thinking pitfalls that argument writers need to avoid and argument readers need to be wary of.

Talktyper.com is by far the easiest speech to text tool I've found. Fun to use for dictation, spelling, composition, etc... It's great to have students speak their essay and then edit what they said rather than start from that blinding white piece of paper!

Having some fun with app.wordtune.com/read Added url of an article, - the AI put a shorter summary out to the side. This can be useful as a time-saver, but also great to ask students to compare the summary to the original. What is lost in the translation to the short summary?

Your students have a lot to say and perspectives that matter. They can share with the world through the New York Times Student Opinion Question Feature. nytimes.com/2020/11/17/learn…

Do your students take too long finding images for presentations? Do they get lost in The Google when they just need an icon or photo? Start them at pics4learning.com/ for a quick search from royalty-free, classroom-friendly photographs.

Oh, how soon I forget..... I'm glad I got re-introduced to wordwall.net I made this little interactive in like a minute: wordwall.net/resource/231944…

Very short stories for middle and high school text study (many with the text linked right there)! owlcation.com/academia/Very-…

"Page Turners Make Great Learners" is hosting a virtual visit with 14-year-old artist and prodigy Tyler Gordon today at 1:00pm! Spread the word, and register here: crowdcast.io/e/tylergordon.

"Wherefore do minstrels sing such wistful songs of rainbows and what at their endings lie"? (Kermit the Frog channeling Shakespeare). Check out popsonnet.com/ for engaging examples of modern day songs turned into sonnets. Great for a quick "Name that Tune."

I was reminded today of the free online tool that I consider the FASTEST way to make a presentation. It can really help cut down on the time kids spend fussing around with PPT or other tools: classtools.net/qwikslides/ and example/tutorial at: youtube.com/watch?v=Me5TaOuq…

Character or author trading cards? Yes, please! Free online tool from Read, Write, Think. interactives.readwritethink.…

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