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Webfoot: A Beginner's Guide to Effective E Mail

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article about effective E-mail use. Includes links to an introduction, what makes E-mail different, context, format, and acronyms and jargon.
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Website
Other

Story Jumper

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students can create their own storybooks using this website. They can add backgrounds, props, characters, personal photos or artwork, text, and their own voices. Free registration is required in order to save their work. There is a cost...
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Activity
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina: Tar Heel Reader

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students can create, illustrate, and publish books for beginning readers, which are made available for the public to read. Authors must go through the free registration process in order to create a book.
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Activity
Other

Albion.com: Netiquette Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A thorough netiquette guide to keep you from social communication blunders in your email messages. Includes a quiz.
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Interactive
Other

Tagxedo

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tagxedo is a tool for making word clouds for visual displays and graphic use. Students insert a piece of text and the words are laid out to form a shape. A Tagxedo can also be created by pulling text in from a website, Twitter handle,...
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Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Assessing the Credibility of Online Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the St. Cloud State University provides information on online sources. This article explains how to assess the value of online sources based on authorship, publisher, date of publication, depth of material, and...
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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of a Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.4.6: Use Technology to Produce and Publish Writing

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 21 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.4.6: With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing a well as to interact and collaborate with...
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Education.com

Education.com: W.4.6 Worksheets: Use Technology to Produce and Publish Writing

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 6 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard W.4.6: With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Publishing Time

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, learners will experience different types of publishing in order to strengthen their motivation and cultivate pride in their work. After utilizing the writing process, students will type out their writing...
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Interactive
Other

Write Words: Phrase Frequency Counter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A simple writing tool where one can paste in a piece of text, choose how many words a phrase might have, and count how many occurrences of each phrase that length there are. A writer can avoid repetition using this tool to check their work.
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Interactive
Other

Write Words: Word Frequency Counter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A simple writing tool where one can paste in a piece of text, and count how many times each word appears in the text. A good tool to use to avoid over-using words.