As April is National Poetry Month, we are featuring two great digital resources for bringing poetry into the classroom. [Read more…] about Featured Resources: National Poetry Month + Poetry Foundation
Digital Learning Resources
Featured Resource: Goodreads
Goodreads is a social network focused purely on books and reading. It is ideal for anyone who wants to keep a digital record of their reading life, including teachers and students.
Featured Resource: WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha is a self-described “computational knowledge engine,” an extensive database of knowledge and a powerful calculator in one. It differs from a search engine such as Google in that it does not search the web for answers, rather it computes answers to questions and queries utilizing its own algorithms and a curated collection of peer-reviewed data sources.
Want to see what WolframAlpha can do with different queries? [Read more…] about Featured Resource: WolframAlpha
Recent Pins: Digital Citizenship, Digital Resources and Tools, and More
We’re continuing to compile great resources on our Pinterest account. Check out our recent pins!
Visit Granite EdTech’s profile on Pinterest.
Of interest at the moment, we have growing boards of Digital Resources and Tools, Digital Citizenship, Pi Day and Digital Learning Day.
Have cool suggestions or ideas? You can send us pins to add in Pinterest, you can comment below, or you can use the #graniteedtech hashtag in a tweet, and we will re-pin, re-tweet, and otherwise re-share your stuff!
Featured Resource: The CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook is a free, public domain web resource prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency. The factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. [Read more…] about Featured Resource: The CIA World Factbook
Featured Resource: VideoNot.es
VideoNot.es is a simple web tool that allows you to take synchronized notes of web-streamed videos. [Read more…] about Featured Resource: VideoNot.es
Featured Resource: Newsela
Want to get up-to-date news articles on high-interest and diverse topics for students, customized to their reading levels? Newsela will do this for you!
Featured Resource: Gale Virtual Reference Collection
The Gale Virtual Reference Collection is now available to all K-12 students and teachers in the state of Utah as part of Utah’s Pioneer Online Library.
[Read more…] about Featured Resource: Gale Virtual Reference Collection
OverDrive: Granite School District’s Digital Library
Granite’s OverDrive Digital Library provides students and teachers with access to a large collection of popular ebooks and audiobooks for independent, recreational, or teacher-assigned reading. These books can be read on a computer web browser or checked out and downloaded to a wide array of mobile devices via the OverDrive App. [Read more…] about OverDrive: Granite School District’s Digital Library
Featured Resource: NoveList
Reading Recommendations for All Ages
NoveList is a reading recommendation database for teachers, parents, and students. The Utah State Library provides all Utah students, teachers, and parents with access to NovelList K-8 Plus (for younger readers) and NoveList Plus (for teens and adults.) [Read more…] about Featured Resource: NoveList
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