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"The Fred Rogers Center Early Learning Environment (Ele) is an innovative online space where early educators, families, and others who care for young children can come together in a safe environment to find and share digital resources that support early learning and development in children from birth to age 5. By focusing on Early Literacy and Digital Media Literacy, the information, media-based activities, and social networking opportunities within Ele are intended to advance learning, healthy child development, and school success. "

"In this excellent 3 part article series, Principal David Mahaley shares lessons learned from the 1:1 iPad program that he has overseen in his role as Principle of The Franklin Academy. David has written several excellent articles for EmergingEdTech, and is the author of the eBook Teaching and Sharing with the iPad: Instructor Quick Guide. I am delighted to publish this series of posts in which he shares the perspective of the Administrator, the Teacher, and the Student, after nearly 3 years of experience with integrating the iPad into the Academy's curricula. "

This is a great read if you have 1:1 iPad schools in your area. Some really good advice here.

"The Educator Innovator Educator Innovator provides an online "meet up" for educators who are re-imagining learning. Educator Innovator is both a blog and a growing community of educators, partners, and supporters. If we want to educate a generation of young people to be innovators - to create, build, design, and use their talents to improve their world - we need to value the creative capacity in the mentors and teachers who support them."

"Since Google made the "On Air" option public for Hangout users, people have started doing interviews, shows and concerts using Hangouts, and then publishing them to YouTube for viewing later. It's the perfect mix of live-viewing and time-shifted enjoyment. Today, Matthew Leske of Google shared some information about a new app called "Cameraman" for Hangouts, that gives you control of which guests show up for your viewers. As you might know, one of the great features of Hangouts is that the focus shifts to whomever is talking at any given moment. Sometimes people talk too much, and that's where something like this is helpful."

Student Acceptable Use Agreement - Consent Forms and Templates - Learning On Line - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

Student Acceptable Use Agreement - Consent Forms and Templates - Learning On Line - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

"Our Glass Explorer community, which consists of people from all walks of life, actively participates in shaping the future of Glass. With new technology comes new questions, and our Explorers help to answer those questions. The first Explorers were developers from Google I/O 2012 and people who told us what they would do #ifihadglass. Since then, we've continued to expand the Explorer Program. We're at the start of a long journey and we're looking to our Explorers to help us develop this new technology."

Wolfram ProblemGenerator -new tool that offers students and teachers unlimited, random practice problems and answers. http://t.co/cvHwJWzP4V

Wolfram ProblemGenerator -new tool that offers students and teachers unlimited, random practice problems and answers. http://t.co/cvHwJWzP4V

Coggle -brainstorm and produce beautiful notes or mind maps to share and collaborate with others, drag n drop images http://t.co/kn4fGOo54B

Coggle -brainstorm and produce beautiful notes or mind maps to share and collaborate with others, drag n drop images http://t.co/kn4fGOo54B

Animoby- build presentations, tutorials and animations, with pictures, drawings and even audio ipad and android

Sid's Science Fair ipad app- learning science and math concepts w/ classification and identifying patterns and sequencing.

The Web Literacy Standard (specification) The Web Literacy Standard is a map of competencies and skills that Mozilla and our community of stakeholders believe are important to pay attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web. Keep up to date with the latest changes to the Web Literacy Standard on the wiki.

"A Teacher's Guide to Backchannels and Informal Assessment is open to the first 25 people that register. I cannot open more seats because I have only licensed 25 seats through GoToTraining. Please only register if you know that you can attend the live session. The webinar will be recorded and published here on Free Technology for Teachers for those who cannot attend the live session. Click here to register for the webinar."

"it's 2014 people! We're 14 years into this century and the Internet turned 25 years old today. It's here…it's part of our culture…part of our daily lives…it's time we stop fighting it and embrace it!"

"Cable in the Classroom brings you a series of free, standards-based lessons that teach key digital citizenship concepts. These lessons, for students in grades 4-8, are designed to engage students through inquiry-based activities, and collaborative and creative opportunities."

Tech Tools that were showcased at ISTE: WeVideo, Liveslide, Scoot and Doodle, Ujam, Biblionasium, Teachley, Sanderling-Field Journal, Graphite, CyberWise and Klikaklu

Series of five videos: Thinking Creatively: Teachers as designers of Content, Technology and Pedagogy by Mishra and Koehler.

Math is the only subject I know to which people attach the word "phobia." Luckily the internet has a wide variety of sites to help students, parents and even teachers with the learning and teaching of math. Here are nine websites that are helping to make math less frightening for all.

"When it comes to cultivating intelligence, mindset is a huge factor. Research from top cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience labs is demonstrating that fundamental aspects of intelligence, and even intelligence itself, can be altered through training."

Audubon Field Guides (ipad and android app) bird songs, ids, color images and more

GoClass-design lesson plans and collaborating resources to push out to iPad app for students to access and interact with https://t.co/DVh65GSwAD