BBN School

Edutopia: Top 10 Tips for Assessing Project-Based Learning

Another organization offering online courses

Gary Stager's 5 TED talks to share with kids

How to recreate the learning strategies of a renowned charter school in a traditional middle and high school setting.

Alan November writes about six creative ways that your students can make valuable contributions to their learning community: tutorial designers, official scribes, researchers, collaborative coordinators, contributing to society, and curriculum reviewers.

"My colleagues and I have demonstrated that online environments focused on collaboration and action, rather than reading and test-taking, can be more social, creative, substantial and personally meaningful than traditional classes"

PowerPoint for SmartPhones

Alan November speaks about students as contributors and his desire to globalize curriculum, linking students to authentic audiences around the world.

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

curriculum STEM NCLB Common Core

An Illinois grade school is using Kindle e-readers to help encourage students of all levels to get excited about reading. The devices' dictionary feature has allowed students in fifth and sixth grade to better understand Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," and the highlighting feature is being used to help kindergarten students sound out new words. Each device can hold up to 3,500 titles, a feature that educators say helps make up for their school's lack of sufficient library

Dipity- Timeline creator

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.

Timetoast is a great way to share the past, or even the future...Creating a timeline takes minutes, it's as simple as can be.

Jim Moulton's take on creativity in the classroom

Middle School Students Find Their Voice with Digital Cameras

Academic paper by Gary Stager describing levels of computer use by students. He critiques the LOTI scale, NETS, etc. and offers a more vivid description of engaging student use of computers.

Tony Wagner speaks on "change leadership": transforming education for the 21st century.

robust web-based image editor (many of the same tools as PhotoShop, but instead of $300 it's free)