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Two business men who are creating education apps and supporting students who are creating education apps have begun "The App Evaluation Program for Schools" which allows teachers to test educational apps for kids for free. "The apps, which cover everything from math, spelling, and reading to language learning, storyboard building, and puzzles, are provided by developers around the world and sent to teachers two or three times per month. Teachers receive a questionnaire after testing the app as a way to help developers improve, but Larsson stresses they are not required to fill it out."

Seems like a nice way for teachers to get new iPad educational apps free to evaluate and then use if they find them valuable

Interesting annotated list of a best websites of 2009. The background of the sites is interesting.

This is a great resource that more schools are mandating links to on their local web site ... Thanks for sharing, Logan.

Discussing the 'digital footprint' with lifetime repercussions and beyond

About the Khan Academy: The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.

Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free. With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 276 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

Good thing? Bad thing? Discuss ...

Create a collaborative workspace with sticky notes.

I agree it is a fun way to record thinking however I had it all set up to use with teachers and it was blocked!

Moving beyond the textbook... I think we're ready for it. Check the link within the article for the Life On Earth textbooks for K-12!

Great resource for having kids read along with videos or movies, and discuss what is different between the printed word and the screen.

Replacement for Kickyoutube.com We need to try this from within the DOE proxy and find out if we can copy URLs of youtube videos from a Google search index and paste them into here to download.  That would be nice.  

http://www.mdphs.org/-links-and-techno-resources/how-to-download-a-youtube-or-other-on-line-video FYI - The directions on this school website also has the same problems on not being able to read the youtube video while in school

Yeah -- I tried both of these options and can't get them to work. The proxy still picks up the words "youtube" in the URL and blocks it "Reason: The Websense category "Youtube and video Google" is filtered.". So they'll still need to download from home.

This looks an excellent project that could fit perfectly into the NY CL curriculum.

I made this screencast to help us in terms of using the Diigo Forum tool. Take a look and let's start posting our issues, best practices, etc...

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There are some interesting finds in this article; although, I would say we are all utilizing most of these technologies all ready as part of our practice.

I was just about to add this article when I saw you already had. I agree that we are using many of them. I would like to know more about the Epson projector that is an IWB. I believe that product is somthing to watch!

The ePotential ICT Capabilities Rubric supports teachers developing their skills to integrate ICT into their classrooms.

Agenda, resources and work created during our April 29 workshop.

I am finding more examples of teachers using wikis. This list is extensive and in addition to sharing it, I will use it as a discussion topic in a presentation.

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