How to access the Google Chrome Web Store and add apps/extensions

Getting the Most Out of your Chromebook presentation

Youtube: Chromebook Classroom Webinar: Exploring Web Apps and Extensions

Chromebook webinars

In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. Rigorous projects help students learn key academic content and practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking).

The Silhouette CAMEO® is an electronic cutting tool for personal use. Like a home printer, it plugs into your PC or Mac® with a simple USB cable. However, instead of printing, the CAMEO uses a small blade to cut your designs into a wide array of materials.

Great video describing Digital Fabrication initiative at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education

At UVA - The Curry School's Engineering Design Initiative aims to foster advanced and innovative performance across a range of subjects by integrating engineering design into K-12 classrooms.

MakeToLearn.org provides an online space where teachers and students can come together virtually to explore digital fabrication, discuss it with like-minded colleagues, learn core academic content through lessons and curricular units, and discover new tools to facilitate digital fabrication in the classroom.

From one of the comments: "Go Vermont!! I've always said there are 49 states...and then there's Vermont! They're such independent thinkers.  They care and watch out for everyone, including children...and teachers. And have 2 great senators to boot. My daughter's certified to teach there; maybe she should move for her sanity."

This work was developed over a two-year period by the Vermont Superintendents Association to define a quality education - see the attachment at the bottom of the page. The work is a synthesis of Vermont progressive education thinking mapped to a contemporary design blueprint.  It is intended to inform educational leaders and other interested parties in how to move forward in the post NCLBA era.

Accountability is a good thing, but only when you are measuring what matters.

Nice website from the VT DOE on Common Core and SBAC implementation in Vermont 

Two Stanford professors leave to start another MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).  Higher Ed implications are significant as traditional academic content becomes commodity-like: it can be delivered any time any where.  Same goes for secondary/high school content. The MOOC approach will hopefully provide our students with greater access to computer science.

"The badge system, moreover, isn't just a transcript, CV, and work portfolio rolled together into a cool digital package. It's also a way to structure the process of education itself. Students will be able to customize learning goals within the larger curricular framework, integrate continuing peer and faculty feedback about their progress toward achieving those goals, and tailor the way badges and the metadata within them are displayed to the outside world. Students won't just earn badges-they'll build them, in an act of continuous learning."

Very cool visualization of live US wind data