BV Middle School LMS

a computer aided model software program that allows users to design items for 3-D printing or lasercutting.

list of stop motion animation studios

a free tool that arranges meetings with the input of group members. You start by creating a meeting title, a series of possible dates & times, then invite people to choose the ones that work best. AS the admin, you can set the final meeting time based on the most commonly selected choice.

GoNoodle is a free resources anyone can use to encourage a healthy lifestyle in a fun way by allowing users to participate in brief brain-breaks throughout the day.

create, narrate, and share drawings. You can draw, type, and upload images for markup as well as import pics. You can also record or film yourself talking. can be embedded.

Presenter from summer leadership 2014

News articles that are tied to common core and lexiled

FlipQuiz is a new site designed to make it easy for teachers to create and display Jeopardy-style review games. To create a game just register for a free account then select "new board." Your new board will have six columns and five rows, but you do not have to use all of the columns and rows and you can add or subtract questions at any time. To create your questions simply type in the question and answer boxes. When you're ready to use your game click the "presentation view" to display it through a projector. Try a demo quiz on the FlipQuiz homepage to see how the presentation view works.  FlipQuiz is free to use for text-based questions. A premium plan is available if you want to use images in your questions or answers. FlipQuizzes that you create in the free plan are automatically shared into the public gallery of quizzes. 

Biology Pop seems to be focused on current news and topics in biology rather than trying to be a reference site. If you're looking to bring some current news into your biology lessons, Biology Pop might be a good site to bookmark.

Genetics and the passing of traits from parents to children is one of the topics in middle school  and high school science that I've often seen students take a personal interest in learning. In the following TED-Ed lesson How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped Us Understand Genetics, students receive a crash course in heredity, genotypes, and punnett squares through the story of Mendel and his study of peas. The full lesson with questions is available here.

Into the Outdoors is a new site featuring videos and lesson plans about a wide variety of topics related to nature. The site is divided into six main topic areas; life science, farm science, social science, physical science, environmental science, and natural resources science. Each primary topic area includes a handful of sub-topics. Click on any sub-topic to find videos, lesson plans, and links to additional resources. 

Gooru is a service designed to help teachers create and share collections of educational videos, texts, and images. This week Gooru released a few new features that you could find helpful in building your collections. First, Gooru now allows you to collaborate on collections with up to twenty of your colleagues. Simply invite them by email while you're working on a collection and they can start adding materials to the collection. Click here to learn more about collaborating on Gooru collections. The second Gooru update of note is a new folders tool for organizing multiple collections into one folder. The third update to note is an updated standards library. The Gooru standards library contains collections of materials aligned to the Common Core math standards for grades five through twelve. 

How to use quizlet

OTMS Thinglinks for 7 wonders project

Booktrack is an interesting service that I recently tried after reading about it on Larry Ferlazzo's blog. Booktrack allows you to add a soundtrack to a text. The soundtrack can be soft music or ambient noises like waves crashing. Booktrack claims that the soundtracks create a better reading environment which leads to improved reading comprehension.  Booktrack offers books that you can read in your web browser and through their iPad and Android apps. Students and teachers can create and share their own booktracks through Booktrack Classroom. Registration is required in order to use all of features offered by Booktrack Classroom. Click here to take a look at some sample Booktracks. 

interactive whiteboard and screencast recorder for iPad