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Honey Software: Personal Video Telecommunications

For Students 9th - 10th
Honey Q is a conferencing program that allow users to combine instant snapshots with instant messaging-style communication.
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Microsoft

Microsoft Education Virtual Tour: Batter Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This downloadable (2.7 MB Microsoft PowerPoint file) project helps students apply their knowledge of fractions and decimals to the game of baseball. They compute batting averages and hitting percentages and participate in a simulated...
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Zoom

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to get the most out of Zoom, the popular video chat service. We'll show you how to host meetings, start an account, invite participants, and more.
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Pare Lorentz Film Center

For Students 9th - 10th
A media source for information on the life and times of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The film center is named after Pare Lorentz, a renowned documentary filmmaker who created government-sponsored films during Roosevelt's era, as well as...
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Read Works

Read Works: The Project

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Marcus who was able to present his project at school even though he broke his leg. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Expressing Yourself With Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Two classes at different schools or across the hall share dramatic poetry presentations as part of a poetry unit. Students listen to poetry, practice reading poetry, and (if practical) participate in a distance learning program on...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Whose Voice Guides Your Choice?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this one-two week unit, students explore the role media has in influencing public opinion. Students analyze advertising in print, video, and online formats. An optional visit to the Museum of Television and Radio via distance learning...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A Universal Translator for Surgeons

For Students 9th - 10th
Laparoscopic surgery uses minimally invasive incisions- which means less pain and shorter recovery times for patients. But Steven Schwaitzberg has run into two problems teaching these techniques to surgeons around the world- language and...
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San Diego State University

San Diego State University: Researching Research

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This comprehensive unit site from the San Diego State University is geared towards seventh grade math and science students. "Students will chose a research project currently in progress and research it using traditional techniques, the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The American Spy in Me

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a fun and innovative instructional activity that will allow students to travel through history in a most unique fashion. Through Internet research and video conferencing students will get a real blast from the past. Students will...
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Read Works

Read Works: Tea With Grandma

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Ravi who loved listening to his grandmother tell stories about growing up in a village called Tambaram. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
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Classroom Tech: Technology Integration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers a variety of ways to bring technology into your classroom. Content includes "50 Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom," filled with learning ideas and activities, as well as a guide for lesson planning and a lesson...