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Janet Allen Conference Handouts Online
More Janet Allen Handouts

Here are links to some of Janet Allen's conference handouts
Great stuff here to use with kids in every CONTENT area:
Portable word walls
Wordstorming to anticipate content
Applying non-fiction reading strategies
Content Brainstorming
Concept Ladder

http://www.freerice.com

Play vocabulary game - feed the hungry. "For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger." This site is not for profit and highly addictive. Who knew making a difference could be so much fun! Link for this site can also be found on the library web site.

http://www.powermediaplus.com/

 If you like United Streaming, try 30 free days at PowerMediaPlus. It is another amazing site for streaming video for education. In addition to videos, PowerMedia also has images, audio, print resources and podcasts. Watch a sample video about the sun's impact on Earth at the site above.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/tools/rubric.htm

Check out this easy-to-use rubric generator. See the other great stuff for teachers here, too.

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html

View the Constitution - read a Q & A for interesting trivia - see events planned for the day in D.C.

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast_directory.php

NPR Podcasts are a great source of digital content. Listen with your classes, or download onto your IPODs/MP3 players/PCs for personal or classroom listening.

http://www.librarything.com

This is a really great site where people enter the titles of the books they own/have read/etc. and add "tags" to describe the books. Or, just go and add tags to the books listed. A great place to go if you like a book and want to know what other people who read that book liked. For example, if you search Eragon, you will see that others who liked Eragon also liked Artemis Fowl and Inkheart.

http://www.ipl.org/div/news

At this site read newspapers from around the world here.

Check out TeacherTube at http://www.teachertube.com

This is an educator's answer to YouTube. Teachers can post videos here for anyone to use. Many of them are student work or student videos, but there are some gems here.