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June 29, 2017 Here are 3 good web tools from ReadWriteThink to help students with their poem writing. Students will get to learn how to write different poem types (e.g., acrostic poems and diamente poems ) and in the process, will also get to reinforce elements of the writing process such as brainstorming, revising, and editing. The tools are totally free of charge and easy to use. Check them out and share with us your feedback in our Facebook page. 1- Theme Poems 'In this online tool, elementary students can write poems based on shapes from five different categories: Nature, School, Sports, Celebrations, and Shapes. Within these categories, 32 different shapes are included. By selecting a shape, students are learning how to focus their writing on a particular topic or theme. In addition, as part of the online tool, students are prompted to brainstorm, write, and revise their poems, thus reinforcing elements of the writing process. Students can save their draft poems to revise late

LittleBits is an excellent resource for teaching STEAM. It provides you with a wide variety of educational materials to engage your students in hands-on and creative activities that involve creating, designing, and coding. ‘From STEAM sets to Coding kits, each offering is packed with curriculum and resources that make 21st century education fun & easy to teach.’ LittleBits also offers a collection of lessons created by a team of educators. The lessons feature tips, ideas and guidelines to help students make the best of Bits in their learning. They target various grades and cover all STEAM subjects. There is also a resource section where you can access different types of guides including Educator’s Guide (provides tips and mini-lessons to get you started), STEAM Guide (features 11 tips and four case studies to help kick-start your STEAM program), Librarian’s Guide (offers real-world tips for getting started with LittleBits in your library), and many more. Watch this TE

NoExcuseList provides you with a selection of some useful resources to help you develop new skills and expand your knowledge. These resources are arranged into 9 categories: Academics, Art, Computer programming, Cooking, eBooks, Music, Languages, HowTo+DIY, and Other. Browse through the collection to check the resources you like. Most of these resources are free, the few paid ones are marked with a yellow button. Clicking on any of the links provided in NoExcuselist will direct you to its corresponding website. You may want to spend sometime going through the selection and share with us your feedback. Courtesy of MakeUseoF

Below is a collection of some interesting iPad apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time. Some of the things you can do with these apps include: access, read and share inspirational quotes; organize and track good habits; arrange your mail in effectively productive ways; record and take notes on the go; access and read world news from multiple sources…and many more. Links to the apps are under the visual. 1- Notable Quotes ‘Our hand-selected quotes provide insightful and provocative food for thought. With each swipe, you will find inspirational, humorous, and comforting wisdom. A widget on your Today screen gives you a different quote every day to inspire you and make you think. Use Notable Quotes to read quotes, share them with friends, or write your own!’ 2- Daily Habits ‘Daily Habits helps you organize, maintain and track good habits while driving out the ones that are negative and even harmful. Create groups of users with similar interests,

Scrible is a very good productivity tool every research student should have. It provides you with various tools and features that enable you to curate online content, bookmark websites, store files, annotate and share webpages and PDFs. You can use Scrible to annotate content on a webpage or PDF. You can add comments, highlight passages and share your annotated content with others through email or social media websites. Everything you curate and annotate is saved to your library in Scrible. You can organize your library with tags so you can easily find your saved content. Scrible also provides an excellent PDF viewer and annotator which works from your browser. Students can use it to load or upload PDF documents to work on. They can use Scrible’s annotation tools to highlight and add comments. They can share PDF documents with each other and be able to see who is viewing the shared PDF, reply to comments and see annotations in real-time. Watch the video below to learn more ab