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Khan Academy lets you track your child's progress so you can support their individual learning needs. Signing up is completely free for you and your child. Get started right away here, or check out the instructions below for step-by-step screenshots of the sign-up process. As explained below, when you click "Parents, start here," the site will guide you through the process of creating both your account and your child's account. If your child is under 13, their account will have special privacy considerations.

"When I went to school, we learned how to dissect a frog," said Partovi, now 41. "It's equally important to know how to dissect an app, to know what a cookie is or what a GPS is. It's important not just for people who want careers in computers, but for a future president, or a future journalist - anybody who is going to have a knowledge career."

New and interesting. I have to learn more about it. What would you have you students build?

Interesting list of tools. Some of them I wouldn't have listed.

"Teach your kids how to prevent bullying whether it happens at recess or online. With these resources, your students will learn strategies to help them feel safe in any environment. We'd like to give a special thanks to everyone who uploaded resources specifically for this collection. We're also excited to include Blendspace lessons and wikis (below) in a TES collection for the first time"

One of the most inspirational talks I have heard.

American Association of School Librarians selects the best apps each year for teaching and learning. Here's the link for the 2014 selection, and you can get to prior year choices from this page as well.

Alternatives to text/Leveled Text YouTube Teacher Tube Newsela Current events and a variety of reading levels. Digital Text Text in a digital format that you can read on your computer or transform into audio Read Please Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software. Natural Reader"

This has some of the tools we have discuss and a few others. Worth reviewing.

App of the Day Useful for coaches and tech dir. to stay up to date on apps.

Resources to improve the use of video in the classroom.

This article examines some of the literature on the topic of cyber bullying and provides information on its prevalence, the definition of cyber bullying,

Keyboarding games.

15 Essential Netiquette Guidelines to Share with Your Students June 11, 2014 Netiquette ( net + etiquette) is the code of proper conduct applied to virtual online spaces.