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

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."

Schools around the world are moving to online assessments for their students that include technology-enhanced, interactive assessment items. Groups such as PARCC and Smarter Balanced are developing such assessments for states across the U.S. In general these tests are collectively referred to as Next Generation Assessments. To successfully complete these assessments, student will need to be able to perform many technology tasks including:

"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."

"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."

"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."