This blog by Tom Barrett is an incredible wealth of information. One of the best teacher blogs I've seen. A lot of time and care goes into his many lesson ideas.
Called "A collaborative rubric toolkit," the search engine will help you find a pre-created rubric, and has K-6 rubric sam[les for assessing student writing as well.
A place to create stories associated with geographical places. Should be a nice way for students to explore the world, write, create, and share stories.
Audio and some video titl at these sites are free. I think you might be able to use a desktop recorder like Audacity to record a book to a set of files to take with you, or put on an iPhone. (Avoid the ads at the top of this page--the article is below.)
"What do you think? If you train teachers to use IWB… how do you make the difference in how the board is used for learning apparent for them? What activities are truly interactive and contribute to learning in a new way while others are merely"fun" to use your fingers with?" A thoughtful article on how to use a Smart Whiteboard effectively--and interactively
"Create a newspaper, ninja text, a clapper board, wizard text, talking squirrels, talking flowers, a cigarette packet, talking tomatoes, talking cats, talking owls" - Fun projects for younger learners or teens, with fairly simple interface. The final project can be downloaded and images placed on your own website or blog.
This page contains the cognate highlighter, where you can paste in any English text to highlight. Good for English-speaking foreign-language learners also.
Spanish students hone their foreign language skills with frequent webcam chats with their English-learning counterparts in South
America.
Students who go above and beyond mandatory assignments will be more likely to
remember class material and apply it when they get out into the working world.
Mobile Phones
take a snapshot of the blackboard for later studying.
the number of cell-phone related infractions is “minuscule
Students were provided with an iPod touch, given instructional materials, and
told they had to make a few academic-related tweets a day. Soon, a thriving
community grew, complete with @replies and hashtags