Student portfolios, shared class accounts or student accounts, note sharing between accounts; use for conference notes with recordings, photos of student work and your notes. Create printable, formatted documents from an app that is accessible from mobile and desktop devices.
Guest post by Steve Kinney. Cross posted at http://stevekinney.net There is a lot to like about the iPad when it comes to using them in the classroom. It's light and fast. It turns on instantly. The battery lasts all day. Best of all, it's about half the price of a MacBook.
Our Wonders of the Day will help you find learning moments in everyday life, ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs.
From MIT: "To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior."
This site that contains the NYC DOE developed Common Core Task Bundles for Literacy and Math. A good place to see what was expected of NYC teachers for the 11-12 school year and for what they will be expected to implement in 12-13
I belong to a gooele group on e_portfolios.
http://groups.google.com/group/k12eportfolios/topics?pli=1
This site was posted as an example of a middle school using Google for their digital portfolios. As schools become more interested in using these tools, I find it useful to have examples and templates.
These documents are really good summaries of strategies and digital approaches - maybe useful for educators who are unfamiliar with the strategy and need a short, sharp description.
CoSN PDF's on uses of Web 2.0 for various school constituents. The resources are clear and easy to understand. In addition, there is a toolkit for administrators and other material that supports technology integration and use at school and home.