Documents
Links
- Clever
- Creative Commons Search
- Computers and Coders Game Details & Points Logging
- Common Area Expectations
- Digital Maine Library
- Fact Checking Sites
- AllSides. While not a fact-checking site, AllSides curates stories from right, center and left-leaning media so that readers can easily compare how bias influences reporting on each topic.
- Fact Check. This nonpartisan, nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by U.S. political players, including politicians, TV ads, debates, interviews and news releases.
- Media Matters. This nonprofit and self-described liberal-leaning research center monitors and corrects conservative misinformation in the media.
- NewsBusters. A project of the conservative Media Research Center, NewsBusters is focused on “documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.”
- Open Secrets. This nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit website run by the Center for Responsive Politics tracks how much and where candidates get their money.
- Politifact. This Pulitzer Prize winning website rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials. Run by editors and reporters from the independent newspaper Tampa Bay Times, Politicfact features the Truth-O-Meter that rates statements as “True,” “Mostly True,” “Half True,” “False,” and “Pants on Fire.”
- ProPublica. This independent, nonprofit newsroom has won several Pulitzer Prizes, including the 2016 Prize for Explanatory Reporting. ProPublica produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
- Snopes. This independent, nonpartisan website run by professional researcher and writer David Mikkelson researches urban legends and other rumors. It is often the first to set the facts straight on wild fake news claims.
- The Sunlight Foundation. This nonpartisan, nonprofit organization uses public policy data-based journalism to make politics more transparent and accountable.
- Washington Post Fact Checker. Although the Washington Post has a left-center bias, its checks are excellent and sourced. The bias shows up because they fact check conservative claims more than liberal ones.
- Front Row Math
- Gmail
- IXL Math and Language
- K-8 Library Resources
- Khan Academy (NWEA Mapped Practice)
- Lexia Student Page
- Library Card Catalog
- MDIRSS Tutorials
- Middle School Pages
- Noodle Tools
- Overdrive for MDIRSS (Use email address without the @mdirss.org)
- Pemetic Energy Team (Archive – not currently in use)
- Photos and Images for Projects
- FlickrCC
- Pics4Learning
- Photos for Class (Download photos to use for school projects)
- Powerschool
- Powerschool (OLD ONE)
- ReadLive
- School Cancellation Page
- Soundzabound (Royalty-free, OK to use music for projects)
- StarLogo Nova (For Project GUTS)
Technology
- After School Technology Activities
- Tech Team (Openings for a 5th and 7th grade student in 2016-2017 school year)