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ISTE award winner Surrey teacher Karen Lirenman blogs about her primary students' use of technology in the classroom.

Excellent online timeliner recommended by iLearn website. See her July 22 2008 review for comments about using Capzles in the classroom to keep a log of your students' reading progress through the year! This timeliner has an extremely attractive interface and is easy to use. You have to upload photos, videos, and audio files that you want to use. You can add short captions and descriptions easily to those files. The descriptions box looks small but expands as you add more text. Once you're out of edit mode a person clicking on the picture sees the whole block of text. If you want to create a longer text entry, you can blog directly on the timeline. It's unfortunate that you can't create a blog entry and have a picture, too, as the text graphic is kind of plain. Very slick feature grabs the date from your uploaded photos and adds them to the correct place on the timeline. Ideal for classroom use if kids don't spend too much time fiddling with the themes options. The only problem for classroom use is that you can't embed live links which is necessary for linking to sources used or other important sites. Or maybe I just didn't figure it out.

Great langwitches blog post shows many practical ideas for using iPads for 21st century skills.

Scott McKay found this blog post by Dan Meyer on how to structure a very open-ended 3 part math lesson.

This post used resources from the BC UDL Website, the LOR, and Anita's Blog!

A blog about interactive whiteboards and how they can be used effectively in education. Also discussion of other technology that impacts on education. There are some very simple activities described, such as the plenary circle, and also some very cool guru tricks.

Daily blog posts by teachers describe what they are doing in their classrooms to differentiate for all students.

Great blog by primary teacher.

Blog by teacher involved in Noncategorical resource model.

Paul Hamilton recently blogged about this great new phonics teaching site...high quality instructional videos, activities, ad-free

Great video about how to use Livebinders in a UDL compatible approach at the bottom of this blog post. Other tools shown are audacity, quizlet, wallwisher, shahi.

Adam Foster of @iPadTeachers has written an excellent guide to using Book Creator in the classroom. 99¢ on the iBooks Store and well worth it. You could do Book Creator activities with your class or workshops for educators for years with the number of ideas packed into this tutorial. Many subject areas. Many of the activities include App Smashing ideas.

My favourite book creating app by far. links to downloads and blog with ideas for usingFree app on iTunes. Ideal for children's picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and more.

Kelly Tenkley blogs about the 16 best sites that teach internet safety.

Kindergarten study of Brazil- now that is engagement!!!

Anita was a team leader in last year's bc udl project. This post is a very moving account of how udl has changed her job.

This became my 500th bookmark on Diigo thanks to Jim Batchel. If you are trying to figure out whether blogs/wikis/ning is better for your students, it looks like you can have it all and more at ThinkQuest! You need an account to sign in but under the Projects tab you can look at some public video tours of its features. ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.