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Apple has also announced iBooks Author (more details below) which lets you create your own textbooks. Users can even insert custom Javascript or HTML5 code into eBooks using iBooks Author.

I worked on this custom search engine for teachers focusing on Differentiation strategies - you may find it useful to share...

Interesting tool that allows teachers to pull articles from the web and develop automated/customized lesson plans.

Edmodo could be a solution for teachers looking to start a basic vle in their classroom. I wonder if you can customize Edmodo to be fully functional for an entire learning community?

Become a "contributor" and add your kid-friendly favorite resources. Then have your K-5 students learn search strategies with results limited to teacher-approved sites.

This is terrific. I wish he had been my professor. Howard Gardner talks about how ineffective one-size-fits-all education is, and suggests how education has to change. I love what he has to say about assessment.

I couldn't agree more. Gardner is one of my favorite thinkers in the field. How do we customize instruction to meet the needs of all our students? This is what we're all struggling to figure out.

...New York City school system's Innovation Zone, a three-year initiative launched by the 1.1 million-student district last fall that aims to test new and different ways for educating students and managing schools.