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=Welcome to HelpfulTeacherLinks!=

Below you will see a link to various sites that I have found useful in my everyday job as a teacher.


 * Site: || Description: ||
 * RubiStar || This is a website that helps you design rubrics for assignments. I like this website because it helps me think about what criteria is important when it comes to grading. ||
 * Wikispaces || Wikispaces is a great place to go and build your own website. I have used it in the past for creating a middle school webpage (Williamston) and a high school webpage (Bradford Academy) ||
 * Quibblo! || Quibblo is a site that allows users to make their own internet based tests and quizzes. It can also be helpful for tracking student achievement and predicting future achievement on in class Test and Quizzes. ||
 * Thematic Maps || This site has a lot of interesting thematic maps on it from environmentally themed to maps based on human characteristics of places. Viewing maps in this way can help students to view the world differently. ||
 * [|Media Converter] || Media Converter is a site which can connect to others (for instance YouTube), and allows its users to download otherwise protected media. This is useful for when one wants to edit resources, or guarantee that a movie will be ready to view for class. ||
 * Bubble Ply || Bubble play is a side which allows you to add text to an otherwise plan video. In the past I have used this feature to insert questions into a video so that we make sure to pause and think about things before moving on. ||
 * [|Viddler] || Viddler is a site great for hosting large video that other sites (for example: Youtube) does not allow. ||
 * American History Timeline || I have found this very basic timeline helpful for organizing and comparing history. ||
 * CNN Student News || I think it is important to remember current and relevant news. I like to have my students watch/listen to the student news and attempt to make sense of their own world. ||
 * Future Discoveries! || I am always looking for new resources to strengthen my understandings and practices! ||

=Critical Book Review=

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Assignment Description: //"The **third writing assignment**, due October 15, will be the creation of a **Teacher Resource Guide**. 30% of course grade **POST in WEEK SEVEN DROPBOX by October 15.**This assignment may be interpreted in any of a number of different ways and as such, I encourage you to think creatively and "outside of the box." You may develop a web-based resource guide that you submit as a link, or a paper in electronic format. How you interpret "resource" is open to your imagination, creativity and particular needs as a working teacher. Nonetheless, a good, practical "list" of helpful links, materials or other resources is a perfectly good means of addressing this assignment. You may also submit a handful (3-4) of short book reviews that you would recommend to colleagues. Or a single (2-3 page) review of a relevant scholarly text or other work. Another suggestion might be to submit a review of software or other technology that you would recommend." //
 * For this assignment, I choose to address the Teacher Resource Guide with a list of literal Links that I like to utilizing when building content for my classroom instruction. These links are not so much to help build my content, but rather to snatch relevant resources, and organize them accordingly. In order to address the scholarly review portion of the assignment I submitted a brief paper about a book about urban education of working class students in Britain.