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That is the case with the latest video from Kina Grannis and her song In Your Arms. It is Grannis singing in front of a very colorful moving background, which is nice on its own, but then you learn the background is made using nothing but jelly beans. 288,000 jelly beans in fact. As the video progresses the animation gets progressively more complicated and adventurous. By the end you can understand why it took 22 months to create, with a total of 30 people working for 1,357 hours.

stop motion jelly bean video - That is the case with the latest video from Kina Grannis and her song In Your Arms. It is Grannis singing in front of a very colorful moving background, which is nice on its own, but then you learn the background is made using nothing but jelly beans. 288,000 jelly beans in fact. As the video progresses the animation gets progressively more complicated and adventurous. By the end you can understand why it took 22 months to create, with a total of 30 people working for 1,357 hours.

"National Geographic Education is currently accepting applications for what looks like an awesome opportunity for twenty-five K-12 teachers in the U.S. and Canada. The 2014 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow Program will take teachers on field work expeditions to interesting places around the world. Some of the places teachers could go through the program include Holland and Belgium, the British and Irish Isles, Arctic Svalbard, the High Arctic, Iceland, the Canadian Maritimes, the Atlantic Islands, and Antarctica."

posts more than 10,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the mission of the World Digital Library is to promote the study and understanding of cultures. The WDL can be searched by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of resource."

"One of my favorite free iPad apps of 2013 is the World Wildlife Fund's Together app. That app features interactive stories about endangered species around the world. The stories show you where the animals live and the threats facing them. If you and or your students don't have iPads, you can access similar information through WWF Wildfinder."

"Students and teachers can login to the DocHub app (or DocHub.com) using their Google account. From there, it is possible to upload any PDF, text document, or Microsoft Office file from Drive, the web, or even your computer/Chromebook download folder. Once a document had been uploaded, students can highlight, draw, insert text boxes, and even incorporate sticky notes. These annotated PDFs can then be sent to Drive or even shared with a link. Unlike some other web-based annotation tools, all of the annotations remain with the PDF after it has been sent to Drive though the sticky notes only appear when shared with a link."

The 100 Word Challenge. Use the prompts and have your class respond to each prompt on your classroom blog. The link to your classroom blog is then shared to the 100 Word Challenge Blog. What a stepping stone to flatten classroom walls and begin engaging in peer feedback outside the classroom. Sign your classroom up here: http://100wc.net/teachers-note/

"The CHARACTER COUNTS! approach to character education doesn't exclude anyone. That's why we base our programs and materials on six ethical values that everyone can agree on - values that are not political, religious, or culturally biased. Use the points below to help young people understand the Six Pillars, and use the mnemonic devices at right to help them remember."

Part educational story and part game, the Elements 4D app offers a new, fun way to experience augmented reality and learn about real-life chemistry. Paired with either paper or wood blocks that are inscribed with the symbols of 36 elements from the periodic table, this app will instantly transform a simple, inanimate object into dynamic, dimensional, 4D representations of each element (App is available in SELF-SERVICE and scoped to all Science iPads).

"The series is called NetSafe and it has 17 episodes that were produced for the Utah Education Network. The videos are labeled with grade levels so that students in high school don't watch videos designed for K-3 students.

This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place! Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Google, Android, and Web 2.0 applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

"Storyboard That is a service that you and your students can use to create simple comic strips. I've reviewed it in the past and today I would like to share a demonstration of how to use it. The video below demonstrates how to use the basic functions of Storyboard That."

"You can now upload your own PDFs and EPUB files to Google Play Books. Upload your files and you can read them on your iPad or Android device with the Google Play Books app (click here for iOS app, click here for Android app). When you upload your files you will be able to bookmark, highlight, and the dictionary tools just like you can with any other book in the Google Books app. "

the site newsela.com This site takes news stories and allows you to change the reading level for a particular story. Topic listings include: war & peace; science; law; health; arts; money and kids. The site is in beta right now and is free. You do need to create an account. For those of you who want to find nonfiction articles for your classes this is one way of doing it. Our databases are another source for nonfiction articles.

"If you search the ELA standards, you will find that the word information appears 243 times. That can be discovered through a simple PDF binocular search on Internet Explorer. "

"NOAA's Games Planet Arcade offers twenty-five educational games for young students. The games are intended to help students learn about oceans, wildlife, and weather. Twenty of the games address topics related to marine life."