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The Write Start Program is a comprehensive, activity based program in which first grade students learn handwriting and writing. In the Write Start program, occupational therapists and teachers collaborate to provide effective instruction for all students and individualized accommodations for students at risk for handwriting problems. I just love the way this approach is evidence based and collaborative.

I've just been testing FreshGrade as a digital portfolio tool and it looks very easy to use. FreshGrade is a free web and mobile based app increasing communication and collaboration between parents, teachers and students through digital portfolios.

I've just been testing FreshGrade as a digital portfolio tool and it looks very easy to use. FreshGrade is a free web and mobile based app increasing communication and collaboration between parents, teachers and students through digital portfolios.

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.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Online site lets you create storybooks collaboratively using artwork provided by the site. You can also share your creations and read books created by others.

Great video showing students working collaboratively at an astonishing number of SBs in the same room.

Techy Tips for not so Techy Teachers A collaboration of ideas for quick and simple ways to use technology in the classroom - ANY classroom!

This is a wikispace for grade 8 and 9 math teachers to collaborate on line creating units.

This is a collaborative space by many of the leaders in digital education including Ian Jukes, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and others.

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?

Weekly discussions about educational issues and technology.

A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository, research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills - from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.

You read a snippet of a story and then you click 'read more' at which time you are presented with unique paths to continue the story. You choose. If you wish you can then add to the story by grafting your own snippet onto the story. Popular snippets get ranked and continue, unpopular snippets disappear.

New Brunswick teachers rank types of supports that they find most valuable. Collaboration and co-planning top the list and technology is rated last. Today, more and more schools are embracing inclusive beliefs and values and putting into practice structures that will permit each student to learn in an environment that welcomes diversity.

Lisa Parisi and Christine Southart co-teach a grade 5 classroom and use many UDL strategies.

Sqworl is a free app that allows you to create a public page on the web that contains thumbnails of several webpages. You can then share the url. This would be useful for making a custom homepage, lists of workshop resources, or safe sites for kids to browse when doing research. It's very easy to set up...you just name a group and then paste in the url's and a short title or description of the links you want. Sqworl creates the thumbnail pics which you can drag around to reorder.

Anita's UDL page on the CEET discussion forum. This is a new social network created to discuss tech initiatives in BC education.