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This year's Readers' Survey was conducted at Edutopia.org March 26-April 30, 2008. Participants responded to questions in their own words, and their answers were tabulated to yield the top three to five vote getters in each category. The top responses for each question appear with voting buttons to encourage our visitors to participate further.
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Readers' Survey 2008: Best Site from Which You Can Download Free Lessons and Materials
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Nomenclature has always mattered in the ever-more-crowded universe of the Internet, and some of the sites readers suggested for this category have great names, even if they didn't make the final three.
MERLOT might give one an instant thirst (for knowledge, of course), but there's not a drop of vino to be found, just a lot of good ideas. And you won't find merlot or Merlin at EnchantedLearning, but the name makes us dream of a serenity rarely found in school. Then there's BrainPOP, which sounds like a late-in-the-day condition common among teachers. But pop the site does, with nifty graphics and an easy-to-navigate setup.
Now, onto the reader favorites, less fancifully named perhaps but well liked nevertheless: Thinkfinity, ReadWriteThink, and Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. The envelope, please.What do you think? Weigh in on the results.
Comments & Responses
ELA OGT intervention
Read/Write/Think has many excellent sourcee for activities to assess benchmarks associated with the Ohio Standards.
The ideas are creative and interesting all in one place.
Voted for Read Write Think,
Voted for Read Write Think, because it is really the greatest site I ever used to download all educational content for free. I recommend it to everyone because it is really useful
Adult Learning Web Resources
Adult Learning Web Resources - A gateway website created in Aberdeen, with free access to educational resources for adult learners of all abilities. The site has a focus on Scotland, but not exclusively so. The site covers EAL/ESOL, Family Learning, ASL/Special Needs, Numeracy, Literacy, Scottish Writers & Scottish Politics. There are also links to BBC Skillswise programmes and STUC/TUC unionlearn. All resources on this site are free to download.
I think all these sites are
I think all these sites are really great. I personally can use all 3 within a month or so. Its a pity there is no option to vote for all the sites at once in your poll.
internet site
All of the sites are useful for studying new things and really hard to choose. There are still several nice and great sites like the Pajama TV. A lot of folks haven't heard about Pajamas TV, and no, Pajamas TV does not feature scantily clad vixens in sleepwear. Pajamas TV is a conservative internet media site that has a lot to say about a lot of things, especially around tax day. Well, they are now turning to college grads who still wind up needing payday loans. They're looking into the salaries of college grads with bachelor's degrees and, using a mathematical algorithm, they are predicting what a grad will make five years from now out to 25 years from now. You may not need to take out online cash advances in the future, if you choose an occupation by following the advice of Pajamas TV.
Read Write Think Excellent
I use the online tools, articles, and lessons all the time from RWT. I always share site with new teachers.
Bogle Junior High School
Chandler, AZ
English
This site provides consistently effective and useful lessons, which, in my alternative school setting, do the nearly impossible: engage all of my students! The lessons are research-backed, aligned with state curricula, and made relevant to students.What more could a teacher want?
ReadWriteThink
I taught 7th reading, and I used RWT all the time. I liked that that the lessons were set to the national standards. A great website, I even shared with my Alternative Certification Teachers. Keep up the great work!!!
If you love
If you love Read-Write-Think, then be sure to be an NCTE and IRA Member; it's worth every penny. If you love young adult literature, then please join NCTE's Assembly on Literature for Adolescents at www.alan-ya.org.
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The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum recognizes excellence in teaching each year. Please encourage teachers you know to submit a lesson for this prestigious award. Grand prize is $500, and full details are on the Museum's website: www.marktwainmuseum.org
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