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You tube video describing how to set up your own map locations and save them permanently. Links to other how-tos in Goggle Maps.

This is the first of a two part series on placemarks and overlays. In the first part we will look at the ways to create a placemark, save it, and post it to the Community. In the second part Placemarks and Overlays (Advanced Training), we will look inside placemarks and learn to use some advanced techniques.

This page allows you to view the presentation and to interact with the presenter. Main message: make the flipped classroom active and interactive, with some tips on how to do that.

While the article by R. Byrne talks about various tools, it often gives great tips for lessons using the QR code makers in ingenious ways.

A video how-to. Image-based quizzes are good for more advanced students as well as beginners.

"Teaching in the 21st Century demands instructors adapt their methods and learn new skills. In an effort to support best practices, we've compiled resources for current and future online educators to help generate quality online education." A list of references on various aspects of online teaching, including authentication of student work, flipping classes, developing engaging courses, best practices, etc.

"Bookcase for Young Writers is a free web companion to our book Kids Have All the Write Stuff: Revised and Updated for a Digital Age to be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in Fall 2019. "This online bookcase features virtual shelves filled with literature, apps, and interactive digital tools to inspire children from preschool and kindergarten through the upper elementary grades to become confident, expressive, creative young writers. "It includes fiction, nonfiction and poetry as well as picture books, chapter books, and e-books. It has links to child-engaging information and topics related to the all writing ideas in the Bookcase. "This bookcase is intended as a starting point for children, teachers, families, librarians and other adults who want to read books that will inspire writing. T/h B. Maloy

"Student choice is not only a simple way to increase student engagement, it's also an essential factor in developing digital literacy while building 21st century life and career skills. Choice boards typically start with a specific learning goal, then provide students with a variety of ways to practice a skill, learn a concept, or demonstrate understanding." Site offers a variety of Choice board templates for your classroom use.

Bunches of things to do online and for flipped classroom, too

A great resource for listening-speaking skill development. Includes 4 posters with expressions to use for conversational interactions.

"In addition to YouTube videos, pictures, and voice recordings Metta also provides options for including content from Pinterest and Twitter to use in your final presentation. Metta also allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your Metta projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation. Applications for Education You could have students create Metta projects in which they create book trailers using video clips, images, and their voices. Students could use Metta to create a digital collage of media around a current events topic that they're studying. Metta might also be used by students to create a showcase of their best digital works of the semester. "