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Empatico - 0 views

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    Site designed to help teachers connect their students to other classes around the world for collaborative projects.
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EDpuzzle - 0 views

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    Site lets teachers crop online vids, add audio clips, and add questions for quick assessments.
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Booktrack Classroom - Teachers - 0 views

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    Intriguing site lets students or teachers read along to stories with audio, movie-style soundtracks or create their own soundtracks for creative writing assignments. Includes a few sample lesson plans for using the site with elementary, middle, or high school students.
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PixiClip - 1 views

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    Nice tool that is like ShowMe or ScreenChomp apps in the browser. Good resource for teachers of flipped classrooms!
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Flipgrid. - 1 views

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    Site lets teachers post a question online. Students then respond via webcam (no account required) and have their (moderated) comment added to a really great-looking video wall online. Site does cost $65 annually, but that includes 10 walls and virtually endless questions/responses.
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Seguin Independent School District - 1 views

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    Teacher technology resources for SISD
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How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business | Wired.com - 0 views

  • And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else.
  • Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones
  • In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
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  • We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
  • Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside
  • There will be no teachers, curriculum, or separation into age groups—just six or so computers and a woman to look after the kids’ safety. His defining principle: “The children are completely in charge.”
  • “schools in the cloud,”
  • as the kids blasted through the questions, they couldn’t help noticing that it felt easy, as if they were being asked to do something very basic.
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    Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong.
Randy Rodgers

Digital scrapbooks for student creativity, self-expression, and imagination - Beeclip EDU - 0 views

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    Tool similar to Glogster, but free for 1 teacher + 30 students. Additionally, presentations can be downloaded and (wait for it) printed!
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YouTube Teachers - YouTube - 0 views

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    Click on the Classroom Videos tab below the featured video to see hundreds of playlists arranged by subject and objective.
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Naiku Quick Question | Naiku - 0 views

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    Free site lets teachers conduct a variety of web-based assessments using any type of browser-equipped device. Very useful for formative assessment.
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BiblioNasium - Kids Share Book Recommendations. Use Online Reading Logs, Find Books At Their Reading Level - 0 views

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    Social network for kids 6-12 years built around sharing books/reading. Teachers can easily set up classes, reading lists, etc.
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Portfoliogen - Create a Free Customized Teacher Portfolio Webpage in Minutes! - 0 views

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    "Free online service for teachers to create their own customized portfolio webpage." Includes a personal URL, ability to upload files, links, photos, etc.
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Understoodit - Measure Students' Understanding in Real-Time - 0 views

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    Web app lets students use web-connected mobile devices to indicate whether or not they understand a topic, then provides teachers a real-time graph of student responses.
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TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing - 0 views

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    TED educational site. Now includes tools that allow teachers to add discussion questions to videos for students.
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Easy Classroom Polling For Teachers and Students | ClassPager - 0 views

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    Easy-to-use tool that lets teachers share messages, poll questions, etc. via text messaging.
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Realtime Behavior Management Software - ClassDojo - 0 views

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    Online tool for tracking student behavior with simple points system, cute avatars for students. Think assertive discipline.
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Collaborize Classroom - Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students - 0 views

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    Free online tool for collaborative discussions; includes voting tool, graphing of results, and participation reports
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Global Awareness Home Page - 0 views

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    Educational program sponsored by the American Institute for Foreign Study designed to promote multi-cultural understanding and appreciation in elementary and middle school classrooms. Resources for parents, teachers, kids.
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Math Bits High School Math Resources - 0 views

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    "MathBits.com is devoted to offering fun, yet challenging, lessons and activities in secondary (and college level) mathematics and computer programming for students and teachers. Created by two mathematics teachers."
Randy Rodgers

Tangipahoa Parish Schools - SMARTBoard Resources - Notebook Files - 0 views

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    Another good collection of Smart board resources, this one from Tangipahoa schools in Louisiana.
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