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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.

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.

This is the new online civics class that was developed by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to help reverse Americans' declining civic knowledge and participation.

Context transforms information into knowledge! Context brings meaning to what you learn and helps you understand and remember events, locations, people and concepts. This is an American Civil War-limited beta release of the ContextU application.

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).

want to try to do this

"We are a group of government documents librarians and K-12 school librarians  who meet up and share the best info for students (of all ages) that comes from government sources.  There are a wide variety of government generated documents covering all kinds of topics.  This site is designed to help classroom teachers and librarians navigate some of the government documents available through our members. "

This is a great livebinder on using Kindles in High School. The West Orange HS Librarian documented her experience.

This free app turns your ipad into a white board that you can draw on. It's fun and easy to use.

Just came across this website. Thought it could be useful to anyone getting rid of old computers.

instead of a book club, this is an online article club, students read an article and respond to each other's comments no last names or geographical info