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There are a handful of questions I can count on being asked at least once at every school in which I do instructional technology coaching. I'm sure many of you have the same issues, so I thought I'd share. Good solid advice for 1)showing YouTube videos, 2)mirroring iPads to SMARTBoards and 3)the best answer to the "must-have" apps question.

Kathy Howery speaks to Rocky Moutain Leadership Conference.

Part 1 of a presentation at Rocky Mountain Leadership Conference

great super bowl ad to use in Kurzweil workshops talks about how he invented ocr and text-to-speech

Free app provides daily movie from Brainpop. Learn more, read reviews, and download BrainPOP Featured Movie by BrainPOP® on the iTunes App Store.

Awesome TED Talk about a different way to teach math. Are we making things too simple? TED Talks Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

application animates portion of a photo...can also add sound. similar to free app blabberize

$40 program really simple cool tool makes it easy for kids to create newscasts.

Great song about the significance symbols on Canadian coins. Challenge your students to write verses for the Loonie and Toonie.

Excellent math site for elementary and middle school. Includes a section where students can model problems.

A student discovers the limitations of a printed textbook.

This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project: http://netgened.wikispaces.comWhen kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked t...

To reset the Flip, hold down pwr button 10 seconds or insert pin in the tripod hole.

A great division video for Grade 6 in BC.

This takes division to include a 4-digit dividend by a 2-digit divisor with remainder. It shows a traditional method of long division.

This site was a "favourite" smartboard site listed on another one. Check it out.

A collection of subject-specific smartboard lessons.

Thanks for this post, Jim. This looks like a great assortment of instant video tutorials. I watched the fossil lesson and found it quite entertaining. It was set up as a quest where you had to learn about fossils in the hall of knowledge before earning the right to visit different geological regions.

This is a subscription site, but it has a free trial. BrainPOP features very engaging short animated films that teach common curriculum content. They also have BrainPOP Jr., specializing in K-3 content. The school and district pricing is posted on thei

This is a free suite of powerful online multimedia editing and creation tools that Paul Hamilton just blogged about.