Plagiarism Prevention
Monitor student online activity in your classroom, filter content, and manage classroom devices.
Just create an account with your GAFE credientials.
Setting up Classes and Assignments in Turnintin.com
We currently have a site subscription. A good resource for checking plagiarism, grading more efficiently and peer editing. Use AI Detector judiciously.
A Google extension that helps you examine a student's writing process (works well alongside turnitin.com).
*Students must complete their entire writing process within documents/assignments created in your Google Classroom. Emphasize that the responsibility is on them to record and document their writing process.
Free Resources
A "closed system" AI tool that is a great teaching tool for using only the texts YOU upload to generate AI content - like your lecture notes or a specific book. Can create quizzes, slidedecks, podcasts and more.
US K-12 educators and districts get free access to premium Claude features, like teaching skills and a connection to evidence-based curricula, aligned to state standards.
The premium features of Canva Pro's graphic design tools are available to teachers through their Canva Education program!
Reading Resources for Teachers
Students and staff can access ACPL and FUSD ebooks and audiobooks through Sora.
** Find Sora in your Google waffle to easily log into the ACL library’s digital collection. You don't need an actual library card to check out digital materials.
TeachingBooks provideds a wide range of multimedia resources, like author interviews, lesson plans, vocabulary support and book trailers to help students connect more deeply with books and authors.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library dedicated to preserving and providing free public access to a vast collection of digital media, books, music, software, and more. You just need to create a free login and "borrow" texts. Includes some non-English resources.
Newsela helps high school teachers deliver differentiated, real-world content that with adjustable reading levels across ELA, science, and social studies
Multi-Media Resources
Streaming video, audio, and text in the performing arts of music, dance, and theatre. Including PBS content.
The MLA Handbooks site has helpful resources.
If teaching reasearch, please consider using MLA format for citations. I am happy to come teach a lesson in your class about how to do this!
Google Arts and Culture offers a vast collection of high-resolution images of artworks, historical artifacts, and virtual tours of museums and landmarks, along with online exhibitions, stories, and interactive educational tools.
Research Resources
An online encyclopedia that is a good, general place to start research with variable reading levels and translation features.
Dashboard to all the ProQuest Tools: Culturegrams, eLibrary, Research Companion, Discoverer, Researcher and PBS Video Collection.
Explora offers a simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including high quality articles, e-books, essays and primary source documents. It also carefully curates topic categories and gives topic overviews.
Gale Power Search allows users simultaneously search across multiple Gale databases, finding peer-reviewed articles, magazines, newspapers, primary sources, and videos with one query, integrating tools like Google Drive, and offering advanced search filters for academic research, school projects, and general topics. It provides content on subjects like history, science, literature, and current events.