1. Diggin' this blog! And the links for other great blogs!
Organic Green Doctor
2. Know How You Learn - Edutopia
Edutopia
3. SUPER Learning Disabilities site
Great Schools
4. A Mind at a Time - EXCELLENT!
All Kinds of Minds
5. Shakespeare
also the complete works at internet public library
http://www.ipl.org/div/shakespeare/
Shakespeare
6. TEA's Q & A about the new STAAR student assessment
STAAR Assessment
7. "Best of the the best blogs" about college
College?
8. Education Pays! Ensuring Access and Equity
Education Pays
9. "Beautiful Brains"
Teenage Brains
10. clever logo/layout with quotes embedded
Super "Cite"
11. Tastes? Music, movies, shows, books, authors and games
recommendations. Thanks to one of my students!
Tastekid
12. Us News and Report ratings and rankings of colleges - also
take a college personality quiz, compare college stats, predict
college costs and search for scholarships
Search for Scholarships
13. Reading/word games
Word Games
14. If we could end hatred, IMAGINE what we could do...
The RROC is "No Place For Hate"
No Place for Hate
15. How & Why We Read
English Crash Course
16. Austin Teen Book Festival - Sept 29, 2012 Palmer Events Center
Teen Book Festival
17. Latino USA
Latino USA
18. 10 Most-Memorable Graduation Speeches
Memorable Graduation Speeches
19. career site
Careers
20. another career site
Bureau of Labor
21. FABULOUSLY FUN VOCABULARY BUILDING SITE
Vocabulary.com
22. Luis Alberto Urrea
Latino author/poet
23. Vocab U - check out the play-on-words faculty
Vocab U
24. college board - conduct a college search - register for the
SAT, SAT
practice questions, and apply online to more than 300 colleges -
Register
for a "question of the day" to be emailed to you - how
cool is that?
College Board
25. Super Cool college Site Generation TX (gentx)
College? Gentx!
26. "Ponytail" Poem for Gabby Douglas
"Ponytail"
27. Stay positive!
Temple Grandin
28. According to a parent, " some enterprising women
mathematicians are creating crocheted coral reefs, showing
hyberbolic space through crochet." Who knew, huh?
TED talks
29. RRISD grad/Hook Em
Hook Em
30. Poet, author, educator, Jenny Browne
Jenny Browne
31. Gay Straight Alliance
GSA
32. Interactive Literacy Tools - Read, Write, Think
Read. Write. Think.
33. Multiple Intelligence Snowflake
(activity on the bottom of this link)
MI
34. Mr. Chalk - seriously! My guru, hero, muse... The only way
I'd agree to be a teenager again is to be in his Eng class.
Mr. Chalk
35. Google docs in plain English
Google Docs
36. 100 Incredible Virtual Tours
Virtual Tours
37. FSU microscopy site for the Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten
38. School-Prison-Pipeline
Teached
39. jk livin
Matthew McConaughey's Foundation
40. High School Ace
High School Ace
41. Reality Check - How much does it REALLY cost to
support yourself after high school?
Reality Check
42. Poet Laureate Draft
Elegy
43. "Is Our Children Learning Enough Grammar to Get Hired?"
Room for Debate
44. #44's Speech to Students
#44's Speech to Students
45. Library as Makerspace: Creating and Nurturing Communities of
Teen Writers
Unquiet Librarian
46. The NaNoWriMo Project: The Birth of Student Novelists
The NaNoWriMo Project
47. LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
Public Domain
48. Love this ad. Love this message. Love teaching...and
hugging!
Hugs
49. My personal fave - Adora Svitak
http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html?
source=facebook#.UCxV64QQau5.facebook
TED Talks
50. Sekou Sundiata
Sekou Sundiata
51. Teacher Tube (Yep. YouTube for teachers!)
Teacher Tube
52. Perspective and Narrative Writing
Spend a day in my shoes...
53. Seriously????
Fact or Crap?
54. 100 Best. EVER. Teen Novels.
Best Teen Novels
55. Car Name Connotation
Car? Connotation?
56. Puzzle-master Will Shortz
Puzzle Master
57. Another great word puzzle - check out the daily codebreaker
Thinks.com
58. Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival
59. How to Write Dialogue that Matters: Lessons from Aaron Sorkin
Dialogue
60. "Reading is the inhale and writing is the exhale," says
Donalyn Miller, teacher-consultant with the North Star of Texas
Writing Project.
The Book Whisperer
61. Money matters magazine for 20-somethings
Money Matters
62. free downloadable books for your MP3, computer, burn to a
disk....
Audio Classics - FREE
63. Steven King on writing ...and reading!
Steven King
64. Voice in your writing - like the GEICO ads
Voice
65. Contest deadline Oct 15, 2012
Six-Word Memoir
66. Look it up - including a cool rhyming dictionary!
Rhyme Zone
67. For My People Poem
"For My People"
68. Wanna make a zine? According to a parent, a zanny guy with
step-by-step instructions on how-to create, "a little magazine
on one sheet of paper--little 'zines, which is a neat way to make
a tiny book with art." Nominated for a 2007 YT Award!
Wanna Zine?
69. Letter Generator
Letter Generator
70. 50 mile-long canyon - 4 houses - organic & off-the-grid...
I wanna grow up to be a WWOOFer!
Montezuma Canyon Ranch
71. Are you smarter than a 17 year old?
Smarter than a 17 year old?
72. Super Ad Bowl - cool interactive from NY Times Education
Ads - NYTimes Interactive
73. Lovin' the optimistic classroom!
Mind Up
74. Lost in Translation?
Bing Translater
75. Ghostbusters 1984 - Bad defined
"There's something very important I forgot to tell you..."
Ghostbusters
76. Check out Literature Resource Center and Teaching Books.net
on our Library Resources Online or this site recommended by one
of my students
All Readers
77. SAT Prep Link
SAT Prep
78. First write from the heart, and then write from your head.
FINDING FORRESTER
Finding Forrester
79. You must check out http://bookscreening.com/
Verrry cool! Like a movie trailer, but for books!
Book Trailers
80. NPR interview with author Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
81. Knots On A Counting Rope, Thank You Mr. Falker, and other
stories read by Screen Actor's Guild celebs
SAG Reading
82. Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles,
slogans and themes, tweets, even your love letters -- into a
visually stunning word cloud,
Tagxedo
83. Wordle is a toy for generating word clouds from text that
you provide
Wordle
84. “To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a
technological society, students need the ability to gather,
comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and
ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions
or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and
extensive range of print and non-print texts in media forms old
and new.” – Common Core State Standards Initiative
Fact or Crap? Part II
85. "Would you rather...?" Cool decision-making game
"Zobmondo" - sample,
email a friend, submit your own zobmondo questions!
Zobmondo
86. PTA Reflections 2013 Contest " Believe, Dream, Inspire!" -
deadline Nov 1 - Do it! Check out this RRISD wiki:
http://roundrockreflections.wikispaces.com/
PTA Reflections
87. "Letters about Literature" Contest- To enter,
readers write a personal
letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-- fiction or
nonfiction,
contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work
changed the
student's way of thinking about the world or themselves.
Letters About Literature
88. "Where I'm From Poem" and template
"Where I'm From"
89. POETRY SOCIETY OF TEXAS STUDENT AWARDS
submit your poetry!!!!!!
Poetry Society
90. Neil Gaimans The Graveyard Book
Watch Neil Gaiman read The Graveyard Book on a 9-city video tour.
At each
stop on the tour, Neil will read one chapter from The Graveyard
Book.
Beginning on October 1st, we will post the video readings daily.
By the end
of the tour, on October 9th, you will be able to watch the master
storyteller himself read The Graveyard Book in its entirety right
here.
The Graveyard Book
91. Neil Gaiman reads his short story "Babycakes"
"Babycakes"
92. The Hero's Journey - interactive
Hero's Journey
93. Jobs- Jobs- Jobs
Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.
94. Lost Generation - check out this award-winning brilliant
video!
Lost Generation? Nope!
95. "Need help getting your creative juices flowing? These
websites for creative writers offer grammar tips, writing
prompts, peer critiques and advice on getting published. Read on
to learn how you can strengthen your creative writing on the Web."
Creative Writing
96. "Strangers" short film
"Strangers"
97. Google-a-Day Puzzle
Google-a-Day Puzzle
98. Common Core
Scoop. It!
99. John (DFTBA) Green..."Don't Forget To Be Awesome!"
Public Education...RROCS!
100. Bringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to
engage students in learning.
100 Best Video Sites