Post about using Google Docs and the need for a chrome browser extension called WatchDoc that allows for the most efficient, effective teaching with Google Docs...

One of our connected learning schools, K497 (School for International Studies), is under threat...

By Meris Stansbury October 11, 2011 How can schools accurately measure and categorize a student's 21st-century skills? The MacArthur Foundation hopes to solve this problem with a new competition that calls on participants to create what is known as a "digital badge."

Education Video Compilation

The Blueprint for Teaching and Learning: The Moving Image (preK -12) is divided into three types of media: Film, Television, and Animation. Each of the 5 strands-Making Moving Images; Literacy; Connections; Cultural Resources; and Careers and Lifelong Learning-includes benchmarks, indicators of student learning, and suggested activities...

Pre-loaded with CCSS standards; raved about by some teachers at one of my schools.

Nice tie-in to Social Studies projects (most likely 8th grade). The trees that still live from the time of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima are called, Hibaku trees (A-bombed trees) -- I've sent away for some seeds for us.