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Tech Talk

Issue #28

Tech TalkIssue #28

DocsTeach DocsTeach

DocsTeach by the National Archives brings the online archives and activities to the web. Students and teachers can search activities by time period and movement or enter a classroom code to access materials and activities chosen by the teacher. Review of the historical documents is tied to a collection of interactive graphic organizers designed to give students a purpose as they read through the texts. After reading or skimming the texts, students drag and drop text icons into boxes on the interactive graphic organizers.

After completing a graphic organizer, many activities provide students with a few discussion questions or a short writing prompt. Students are encouraged to respond to the questions and email them to the teacher.

https://www.docsteach.org/

SlickWrite SlickWrite

Slick Write is a free tool that helps you analyze your writing or that of others. To use Slick Write you can write new text in the provided text editor or copy and paste chunks of existing text into Slick Write's text editor. Either way Slick Write will provide you with an analysis of your writing. That analysis will include typical things like a word count, a readability score, and an estimated reading time for your document. Slick Write will also analyze your use of adverbs and prepositional phrases throughout your document.


You can customize Slick Write's analysis settings by choosing what you would like Slick Write analyze in your document. For example, you can choose to have Slick Write identify clichés in your document. There is also an option in Slick Write's settings to have it analyze your use of conjunctions and contractions. There is a total of thirty analysis options that you can enable or disable in Slick Write.


https://www.slickwrite.com/#!home

watch know learn watch know learn

WatchKnowLearn has indexed approximately 50,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 5,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom, as well as parents and students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness. The website invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers. WatchKnowLearn does not itself host videos—it serves as a library for links to excellent educational videos that have been selected by educators.


http://watchknowlearn.org/

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💻 Jennifer Harrison

Instructional Technology Resource Teacher

Amherst County High School

Email: jharrson@amherst.k12.va.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/amherst.k12.va.us/itrt-harrison/home

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