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Teaching Tools
The Educator's Network: Make your own - Almanacs, Calendars, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Graphs, Maps, Rubrics
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/forward/tool.htm

The Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Classroom Use - Kathy Schrock - Online tools for teachers and students
http://kathyschrock.net/cooking/



Graphic Organizers
Enchanted Learning - Graphic Organizers
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/

Graphic Organizers That Support Specific Thinking Skills - This site offers simple descriptions of graphic organizers like bubble maps, Venn diagrams, and flow charts.
http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/thinkmaps.html

Graphic Organizers for Content Instruction - Visit this site for associated .pdf activities to graphic organizers.
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/graphic_organizers.php

Index of Graphic Organizers
http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html

Graphic Organizers - Information found here includes clustering, compare/contrast, family tree, interaction online, problem/solution, spider, story board, and Venn diagram.
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/sorganiz.htm

Graphic Organizers - Alaska's Department of Education & Early Development offers organizers for Webbing, Content/Concept Maps, What We Know/Want to Know/Learned (KWL) Charts, Hypercard, Outlines, Timelines, Flow Charts, and Venn Diagrams.
http://www.educ.state.ak.us/tls/frameworks/mathsci/MS5_2AS1.HTM#graphicorganizers


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PDF File Converter - Convert a Postscript compatible file to an Acrobat compatible file
http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/convert.htm



Finding or Creating Rubrics
Chicago Public Schools – The Rubric Bank
http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/Rubric_Bank/rubric_bank.html

Creating a Rubric for a Given Task
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/rubrics/rubrics.html

Discovery.com:  Kathy Schrock’s Rubrics
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

The Educator's Network: Rubrics
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/main/rubricindex.html

4Teachers.org -The Rubric Builder
http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/

The Landmark Project:  Rubric builder
http://landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder.php3

Project Based Learning with Multi-Media Rubric
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/MMrubric.htm

Rubician.com
http://www.rubrician.com/

Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

TeacherVision
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4521.html

TeAch-nology:  Rubric Maker
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/


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