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"To help us through our initial fears of recording ourselves, Ginger gave us weekly video challenges. One week, she challenged us to film the first three minutes of class. Another week, she wanted to see a transition time. Sometimes we would film times that related to our professional growth plans. Each week, we'd bring the recordings to staff meetings and watch them together with a partner or small group. Sometimes, Ginger would provide prompts for us to use as we discussed the recordings."

"Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners."

"Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners."

"Assign problems, not tasks. Traditionally, people on the business side come up with ideas and hand them to developers who are tasked with turning them into code. Instead, let developers contribute to the solution of business problems. Who knows better how to apply software to your business than people who deeply understand technology? Tolerate failure. Experimentation is the prerequisite to innovation. Create an environment where developers run lots of small experiments and where failure is celebrated rather than punished. Run blameless post-mortems to discover why an experiment failed and what you can learn from that experience. Become obsessed with speed. Startups push new code constantly, every day. Companies can no longer spend months developing new programs. Hunt relentlessly for ways to shave the time it takes to go from "great idea" to working production code. Keep developers close to customers. Remove organizational barriers that separate developers from the people who actually use their software. When developers talk to customers they can deliver better, more useful features in less time. Every organization will embrace the builder's mindset in its own way. But these principles provide a framework for building a world-class software development organization, so you can respond faster to customer needs, adapt to a constantly changing market, and keep up with the Amazons of the world. "

When it's time to change, you've got to rearrange.

"A real-time group brainstorming and decision making app"

"Digital citizenship is not a one time discussion. It is an ongoing process that needs to be taught to all grade levels and to all stakeholders. The problem is that things are changing so rapidly that it is difficult for everyone to keep up to date with the trends."

This is the most viewed TED Talk of all-time, and for good reason. Sir Ken Robinson provides a stunning and articulate call to action for schools to rethink the very nature of learning. This is perhaps one the most powerful arguments for the "why" of Project-Based Learning.

Intel: Self facilitated courses. Free, just-in-time professional development that you can experience now, anytime, anywhere. This series of compelling courses provides deeper exploration of 21st century learning concepts.

The best digital resource out there is a paid source called ThisIsLanguage. Best product in a long time, authentic videos, activities, but cost is attached. It's an excellent tool.

"Grammarly makes you a better writer by finding and correcting up to 10 times more mistakes than your word processor."

In chef's pizzeria your child masters the concept of naming simple fractions using pizza picture examples. Designed for grade levels 2-5, Pizza Fractions provides introductory practice with fractions in an approachable game-like environment. players presented with randomly generated fractions to identify by counting slices of pizza entry level simple fractions build confidence with denominators 1-12, excluding sevenths and elevenths adjustable level of difficulty allows beginners to start with easier fractions and progress as they learn option to advance questions by shaking the device or using a button score data and round timing allows you and your child to compete by alternating rounds

"Real World Delivered to the Classroom. Nepris connects teachers and students with the right industry experts, virtually without having to spend much planning time or leaving the classroom while providing an effective way for companies to extend education outreach and create equity of access."

"Interact and vote with smartphones during presentations Make your audience feel more involved and motivated by enabling them to contribute to your presentations. Mentimeter shows the results live while your participants are voting with the web based mobile polling app directly in their browser, making sure everyone is part of the presentation. Get instant responses using smartphones for voting Visualize the results in real-time No need for documentation or administration since the results are saved automatically" Handles large audiences and can be customized with a variety of question types and displays.

"Team Management - High Production/High People According to the Blake Mouton model, Team management is the most effective leadership style. It reflects a leader who is passionate about his work and who does the best he can for the people he works with. Team or "sound" managers commit to their organization's goals and mission, motivate the people who report to them, and work hard to get people to stretch themselves to deliver great results. But, at the same time, they're inspiring figures who look after their teams. Someone led by a Team manager feels respected and empowered, and is committed to achieving her goals. Team managers prioritize both the organization's production needs and their people's needs. They do this by making sure that their team members understand the organization's purpose , and by involving them in determining production needs. When people are committed to, and have a stake in, the organization's success, their needs and production needs coincide. This creates an environment based on trust and respect, which leads to high satisfaction, motivation and excellent results. Team managers likely adopt the Theory Y approach to motivation, as we mentioned above."