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interesting description by a history teacher who lets students use the internet for an exam.

NAIS magazine article

in case your students need high quality audio recording with iPads (e.g. oral storytelling)

good article about the negative aspect of computer use during lectures

Nice idea of adding a link to the home screen of student or teacher iPads for a google form -- allowing them to give feedback over time that all goes into one form.

Challenging Students Globally to Think, Create, and Innovate This exciting competition challenges students to apply their critical thinking, communication, and technology skills to a real-world problem.

an exercise for helping students write more freely without fear of criticism over punctuation and grammar

Highlights research showing the divide between what students know how to do using technology and what they should be learning.

Brainchild describes its new Android-based tablet as a low-cost, secure alternative to Apple's product, designed specifically for younger kids

Using X Timeline students can collaborate, just as they would when making a wiki, to build a multimedia timeline. Timelines built using X Timeline can include text, images, and video.

This article suggests 10 ways that educators can use visual media in classroom lessons. Using a digital camera, students can take photos and video as part of original public-service announcements, create multimedia book reports on Glogster or organize a fictional crime-scene investigation

A small, independent K-6 school in Massachusetts focuses on collaborative learning with students working at group tables rather than desks, and teachers acting as facilitators rather than lecturers. There is no homework at Anova, the Massachusetts School for Science, Creativity and Leadership, where there are rules against repetition and busywork. "We're about progressive education," said Courtney Dickinson, the school's founder.

On April 11th Google launched a new daily puzzle to help teachers and students learn how to search more effectively.  AGoogleADay.com presents an ever-changing search challenge that exercises your internet search skills, and if you get stumped, there's a solution path just one click away to show you how to solve the problem.  In the first two weeks, AGoogleADay.com has had more than 300K visitors, all coming to learn what's possible on Google, challenge their Google-Fu, and learn a bit more about what can be done to improve your search skills.  

interactive techniques to energize and engage students- tweeting in the classroom?