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Blogging for our elementary students and teacher accessibility to the blogs.

One of the many blogging options for teachers and students.

Looks interesting for learning lab students and or speech students.

Although YouTube has been blocked from many/most schools, for obvious reasons and not so obvious ones. YouTube does provide great resources and content for teachers and students. View the list of the Top 100 Videos for Teachers. This list is provided by SmartTeaching.org, a leading online resource for current teachers, and aspiring education students and student teachers.

A teacher shares how she uses Twitter with her Kindergarten students. How many of you use Twitter with your students? Looking for more info on this.

Screenr is an online screen-capture recorder that captures everything that happens in your screen. Easy tool for students and teachers alike Screencasts are very easy to share and download Possible to log in via social networks Students can do the voice-over of on-line videos (e.g. snippets of films, documentaries, news, etc.)

Anyone interested in implementning iPads for students with special needs

An extension for students and teachers who want to implement Scratch but want to go beyond the features of Scratch

Yesterday, I found a postcard creation tool and lesson on Read Write Think. The RWT Postcard Creator walks students through the process of addressing, writing, and mailing a postcard. It's a nice little activity, but as I was trying it I couldn't help but wonder how relevant it is to today's students who may go never send a postcard because all of their communications happen digitally.

As I reflect on our first year as a 1:1 school, I am overwhelmed by the insights that we gained after distributing over 1,000 mobile devices to our students in grades 9-12. As I look at the data from an end-of-the-year survey completed by students, I am reminded of an excerpt from Milton Chen's book Education Nation - Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools .

Amazing Maine author & presenter, works well with students.

Welcome to Literactive Literactive is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students available online. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth of supplemental reading material which gradually develop a child's reading skills in a sequential and enjoyable manner. Has anyone used this website? It is a register to use site, but it appears to be free.

Great resources for integrating technology and education with the 21st century, mobile learning student in mind [Page 1] Found another apps resource for y'all. Katie Christo has listed apps by grade level. May be something useful.

"Teachers must also ensure that children have access to reading materials that are relevant to the kind of writer they are interested in becoming at a particular moment. Teachers must recruit the authors who will become the children's unwitting collaborators." Frank Smith, Joining the Literacy Club Our students naturally mentor themselves to texts that matter to them.