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Handout
Other

Web developer.com: Quicksilver Effect on Text

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows you how to create the Quicksilver effect using Photoshop with text. Check it out!
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design Step 2: Research the Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through Internet research, patent research, standards and codes research, user interviews (if possible) and other techniques (idea web, reverse engineering), students further develop the context for their design challenge. In subsequent...
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Handout
Other

E Learning Developers' Journal: What Is Personalized Learning [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This article takes on the complex issues of designing personalized learning strategies for web learning instruction and environments. What do students do when teachers are not there to provide motivation, direction, goal setting and...
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Website
Other

Browser Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive archive of links to versions of many different browsers. Current to 2005. This site is maintained by an international volunteer group primarily for professional web developers.
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Website
Other

Introducing Plain Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site by Plain Language Online states that plain language "begins with the needs of the reader," which will determine why and how the writer writes. It goes on to elaborate on audience and purpose, idea organization, use of...
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Handout
Other

Web Log Analysis, Who's Doing What, When?

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers ways to handle your web site's traffic using log formats and identifying visits.
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Handout
FNO Press

From Now On: Designing School Web Sites to Deliver

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive From Now On site detailing the reasons to develop school web sites as well as the processes involved. Many links to resources provided however, some are not active.
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Website
Other

Color Maker

For Students 9th - 10th
This very useful site allows you to change the color and background patterns of a web page, and then copy the HTML code to your own site. Includes a tutorial, links to other web pages about color design, and links to a TableMaker and a...
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Website
Other

Mcsr: Hints for Web Authors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Mississipi Center for Supercomputing Research provides a continuously revised report on tips for web design authoring.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: On the Farm With Wilbur and Charlotte

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this unit, students will explore many aspects of the book Charlotte's Web. Students will work as a group to develop a presentation, design a web page, and prepare a newsletter. They will also complete a WebQuest about Charlotte's...
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Handout
Other

Web Developer: Neon Text in Photoshop

For Students 9th - 10th
Step-by-step instructions on creating neon text in Adobe Photoshop, just like the neon signs in store windows.
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Activity
Other

Kids Web Germany

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site was designed by a mother, Claudia Buchczik, for young Internet users. It includes games, arts and crafts ideas, a quiz and book suggestions. Very kid-friendly: kids can contribute their own ideas. Site is in German.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using a Web Quest to Create a Persuasive Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After reading Lois Lowry's The Giver, students use a WebQuest to research ideas and themes from the novel. Students use their research and persuasive writing skills to create a brochure designed to sell a way of thinking or way of life...
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Article
Other

Build Web Site4u: How to Build a Website

For Students 9th - 10th
BuildWebSite4u.com offers an overview, advice, tools, and many other useful resources for building a website.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Ruby on Rails

For Students 9th - 10th
A Wikipedia description of the Ruby on Rails web development platform.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Testing With J Unit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
JUnit is a testing method that is included with NetBeans (Java) installs or can be downloaded from the web and included in the Java build. In this activity, students design tests for a provided Java class before the class methods are...
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Website
Other

Broadband Now: The Living Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
How much do you really know about the Internet? How does it work? Who invented it? The Living Internet has answers to these questions and just about everything else you ever wanted to know about our online world. Sections on: Internet,...
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Professional Doc
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Why the Net? An Interactive Tool for the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
This online workshop for integrating technology in the classroom features topics on how to use the Internet for educational purposes. Content includes a full explanation, demonstrations, explorations, and guidelines for implementation....
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Website
Other

Eduscapes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The creators of eduscapes have designed this website to share their love of learning and teaching with others. The site aims at effectively integrating technology into the classroom in a fun and seamless way. Use the site to get lesson...
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Website
Other

Write Away: Finding Your Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article, written by a college creative writing instructor, gives advice about developing a writer's voice. There are six sections with specific suggestions for improving your writing. While the source of this page is a site about...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My Most Memorable Experience

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, each student will write a narrative story about his/her most memorable experience. Learners will develop the narrative writing mode and create a brochure using desktop publishing software.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Students Write a Newspaper

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
For this project-based language development lesson, English Language Learners learn about the newspaper publication and create their own newspaper that covers stories about their school year. The lesson format follows the Sheltered...
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Article
Other

Hot Scripts: asp.net

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents an internet directory of resources for ASP.NET programmers.
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Website
Other

Pankpages

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains free downloadable graphics such as buttons and backgrounds, as well as tutorials which focus on Photoshop.