A chart that compares five screencasting apps - 2 cost money and 3 are free.

A great new search engine

A huge list of strategies to use to begin your lesson, while teaching your lesson, and to wrap up your lesson.

Use Post-its and symbols to track comprehension for nonfiction text.

Shared on #ntchat - a form to use for exit slips based on Twitter

Gary says, "On this Martin Luther King Birthday National Holiday, I give thanks to the World Wide Web and YouTube for ensuring that future generations of children will be free to learn history aside from the standardized content being currently delivered to them."

Common Core ELA for 4th grade from Jordan School District

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"Google's "20% Time", inspired by Sergey Brin's and Larry Page's Montessori School experience, is a philosophy and policy that every Google employee spend 20% of their time (the equivalent of a full work day each week) working on ideas and projects that interest that employee. They are encouraged to explore anything other than their normal day-to-day job. As a result 50% of all Google's products by 2009 originated from the 20% free time, including Gmail. Real break-through happens when we are free from others' expectations and driven by individual passion."

Research in Learning Technology is the journal of the Association for Learning Technology. It aims to raise the profile of research in learning technology, encouraging research that informs good practice and contributes to the development of policy.

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A wiki will great tips on creating flipchats

This document in Scribd explains the activities a teacher can put on pop sickle sticks and select when the class needs a brain break. Read more about it here http://keepcalmandteachon.blogspot.com/2011/04/acitivity-sticks.html

This i s a good reproducible to use on the first day of school.

The true potential power of this site could be not only to help fellow teachers use digital tools, but also find and contribute to a community of ideas for classroom use.

Use Every-Day Edits to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy with students in grades 4 and above. Be sure to see our tips for using Every-Day Edits in your classroom.

A blog post from Mashable - If you want the hands-down, easiest way to embed practically anything on your blog or website, have we got a tool for you!

This site shares apps that address different levels of Blooms taxonomy. Site says it will be updating daily.

Eric has put together of Google Chrome extensions that he uses on a regular basis. Check them out.