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Believe me, I know that everyone hates fidget spinners. I hate them. They're loud and awful and disrupt everything. Fortunately, there are solutions!

How about, for example, a DIY classroom fidget box! So many students do need the help of a handheld item to keep them busy and concentrating on their work! This website offers a look at the best silent items on the market!

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Silent Classroom Fidgets | Fidget, Focus, Concentration Toys-Tools | Therapy Shoppe

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Best selection of fidget toys and tools: focus concentration tools, stress balls, quiet classroom fidgets, fidget for feet, focusing fidget bands, stress balls, and other helpful sensory diet tools for self-regulation!

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HAVE YOU EVER LOST ALL YOUR WORK BECAUSE MICROSOFT WORD COLLAPSED LAST MINUTE?
Me too. It's awful and frustrating. Luckily, there are ways around this.
Google Drive saves your work automatically and allows you to view work offline! It's incredible! I would give it a try if I were you!

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If you use google, you can have students share their presentations over drive with you. That way, you'll never have an overload of emails, and you'll always have access to their work. You'll also be able to check the date that it was posted to you, which makes identifying late work that much easier.

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If you share folders with teachers in google drive, you can share any handouts, tests, worksheets, and lesson plans with your peers. I recommend it for everyone. Just get emails, create folders, share those folders, and get going! What better way to connect than through work!

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Keep track of your own projects and syllabus' with other teachers through Trello. Free, easy to use, and connects you to everyone.

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Capture, organize, and tackle your to-dos from anywhere | Trello

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Make the impossible, possible with Trello. The ultimate tool to boost your productivity. Escape the clutter and chaos—stay efficient with Inbox, Boards, and Planner from anywhere, even on mobile.

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Teachers, sometimes the best things you can do before a test are study, study, study. But what's the best way to study? Games!

Help your students with memory recall by having them compete in the classroom! What better way to make them remember information than with some good, old fashioned competition!

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Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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Why make group projects messy and awful, when they can be organized and make sense! This can be used for group readings as well as projects. Have a group choose chapters and then outline with this program! It's the perfect way for legible, and easy learning! And the fact that it's easy to read makes it all the better for you in the future.

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ELL and Students With Special Accommodations 

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ELL and Students With Special Accommodations 

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Teachers, if students are struggling with articles and documents, why not have them read aloud! This is a fantastic plugin that can be used on any computer with Chrome. Let me know ahead of time if you don't have that and we'll find an alternate program.

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Read Aloud uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology to convert webpage text to audio.  It works on a variety of websites, including news sites, blogs, fan fiction, publications, textbooks, school and class websites, and online university course materials.

Read Aloud allows you to select from a variety of text-to-speech voices, including those provided natively by the browser, as well as by text-to-speech cloud service providers such as Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, IBM Watson, and Microsoft.  Some of the cloud-based voices may require additional in-app purchase to enable.

Read Aloud can read PDF, Google Docs, Google Play books, Amazon Kindle, and EPUB (via the excellent EPUBReader extension from epubread.com).

Read Aloud is intended for users who prefer to listen to content instead of reading, those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities, and children learning to read.

To use Read Aloud, navigate to the web page you want to read, then click the Read Aloud icon on the Chrome menu.  In addition, the shortcut keys ALT-P, ALT-O, ALT-Comma, and ALT-Period can be used to Play/Pause, Stop, Rewind, and Forward.  You may also select the text you want to read before activating the extension.  Right clicking on the selected text will provide you with yet another option to activate Read Aloud via the context menu.

To change the voice, reading speed, pitch, or enable text highlighting, go to the Options page either by right clicking on the Read Aloud icon and choose Options, or by clicking the Gear button on the extension popup (you'll need to stop playback to see the Gear button).

Read Aloud is an open-source project.  If you wish to contribute bug fixes or translations, please visit the GitHub page at https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud.

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Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader

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Read aloud the current web-page article with one click, using text to speech (TTS). Supports 40+ languages.

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It is!
Teachers, make sure to send this link home to as many parents as possible. This is an amazing site for students who are having a hard time in your class. Make sure that parents know that this is a safe and pre-approved website, and is appropriate for all ages!

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

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Hey teachers! Google classroom is an amazing way to connect to your students anywhere and anytime! Make sure you update regularly, and parents will be sure to thank you for how active you are in their students educational lives!