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• Grab Website Colors – Color Scheme Extraction Tool
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• sapublicschools – Meme
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• Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide
  The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age.
  When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal.
  With digital storytelling, students can:

  Improve their writing.
  Show creativity.
  Have a voice.
  Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment.

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• Welcome to BetterLesson
  BetterLesson was founded by a group of teachers from Atlanta and Boston public schools to connect educators and help them create, organize, and share their curricula.

  We are focused on aggregating and scaling the most innovative content and practices from high-performing teachers across the country

• South Amboy Public Schools – Children are the future as inevitably as the future is change.
  This is an active test of how South Amboy Public Schools might leverage the power of it's own educational networking site.
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If you do, here is a link to a very comprehensive listing of the educational apps available to you.  And with all the recent iPad buzz, it might be time to jump on the bandwagon.

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• Welcome to Wikispaces – Free Wikis for Everyone
  Our full-featured wikis offer unlimited usage and our stellar visual editor. Check out our plans and pricing, and see why our customers call us the best wiki out there.

  Now hosting over 3,920,000 members and 1,470,000 wikis!

  We have given away over 266,000 wikis for K-12 education. Learn more and create your own classroom wiki today.

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• Discovery Kids :: Home Page :: Discovery Kids
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• Online tech literacy, supplemental math & science curriculum, assessment for K8 schools
  Learning.com is a pioneer in providing premier, Web-enhanced instruction. We focus on innovative, results-oriented solutions with a singular, over-riding purpose: to improve student learning.

  We have gathered a remarkable team with expertise in Web technology and forward-thinking educational pedagogies that support educators in their work to improve student learning outcomes. We understand how best to integrate 21st century technology into how children learn and how educators teach.

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• ThinkCentral
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• CDWG | Let Your Imagination Run Wireless
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Enter the 9th annual Win a Wireless Lab Sweepstakes for your chance to win one of three grand prize wireless computer labs for your school, including 20 notebook or tablet computers, interactive whiteboard, mobile cart, projector, printer, wireless access points, portable document camera, digital camcorder, and a $5,000 digital media grant from Discovery Education.

Plus, 25 additional technology prizes! In addition to the three grand prizes, we’re giving away 20 additional prizes, including projectors, notebook computers, and digital camcorders! Each month one lucky winner will receive a projector from NEC.

Enter once per day until May 3, 2010 at discoveryeducation.com/cdwg. Share with your friends and colleagues on Twitter and triple your entry each day.

*No purchase necessary. Sweepstakes runs through May 3, 2010. For complete details, see the official rules posted at discoveryeducation.com/cdwg.

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• South Amboy Public Schools::Athlete of the Month
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