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Jazz Things Up with These 12 Music Tools

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Music is a valuable teaching tool in any subject area. It makes complex concepts more accessible and engaging- sustaining students' learning and adding fun to learning.

Schools Power Up Their Bandwidth to Manage BYOD Demands

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Districts use a combination of planning, teamwork and the right technology to revamp the network backbone in support of BYOD and other bandwidth-heavy innovations.

How to Use the Google Newspaper Archive

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A short YouTube video about the basics of using Google Newspaper Archive for classroom use. Search for local and regional content for your students, classes and lessons.

Skip the Worksheets! 5 Grammar Games to Play Instead

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Five great grammar focused games to play instead of traditional worksheets. Keep the classroom balanced and your students active at the same time.

Why Aren't More Schools Using Free, Open Tools?

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A great read for any anyone in the education field. The article written by, Katrnia Schwartz highlights discussions and view from both sides.

What it's like to go on the Internet for the very first time- at age 82

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A crash course in the Internet is what former Swedish actress Kerstin Wolgers did at the age of 82 for the first time. Over the period of only five days, she Googled, Instagrammed, shopped and much more.

Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement

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Eighth graders speak out about what engages them. A group of 220 students responded and the results fall under 10 categories that appeared over and over. Read the full article and learn from the student perspective, what engages them the most.

BAM! Radio Network

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BAM! Radio Network is connecting the voices of the education village. Listen to several different areas of education in these radio segments. Connect, learn and subscribe to the podcast station to listen and learn more.

25 Attention-Grabbing Tips for the Classroom

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A fantastic list of tips from the Edutopia community on how to gain the attention of your students. Watch the Google Slides presentation, try the tips and add your own ideas to carter directly to your classroom and environment.

The Hunt for the 'Secret Sauce' of Digital Learning

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Research shows that some schools are successful and other are not when it comes to implementing digital learning initiatives. A study released by the America's Promise Alliance Center for Promise, "Wired to Learn K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom" looks at how schools were successful at implementing digital strategies.

8 Ways to Get Reluctant Readers to Read

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Reading is known to have obvious benefits, such as improving vocabulary and increasing the breadth of knowledge that one has. But recent studies have shown other benefits of reading.

Twisted Wave - A Browser-based Audio Editor

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Through Twisted Wave you can create and edit spoken audio recordings from scratch. Your completed recording tracks can be exported to Google Drive and SoundCloud. You can import and edit existing recordings you have as well.

Comma Story- TED-Ed

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Watch this TED-Ed entry of the Comma Story by Terisa Folaron, with your students and have them visually understand what a comma is and what is does. Remember the lessons on the side for discussion.

Strategies for Helping Students Motivate Themselves

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A look at how practical classroom strategies are used to reinforce four key qualities of students motivation. The four qualities that are discussed in the article are autonomy, competence, relatedness and relevance.

April - National Poetry Month! Poetry Starters for Every Classroom

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April is National Poetry Month and no matter what you teach, you can transform the first five minutes of class to an empowering, issues-packed, discussion-based, poetry-friendly space.

Online Safety

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Online Safety: A Teacher's Guide to Dealing with Cyberbullying, Sexting, and Student Privacy is an article by Sarah Muthler, to increase awareness to educators regrading the safety for their students while they are online.

Lifelong Learning is a Crucial Educational Mindset

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Doctors, lawyers and other professionals never stop learning new techniques and strategies to hone their craft and remain on the cutting edge in their field- and so too, do teachers.