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R. Stannard teacher training video on Padlet (formerly WallWisher), which is useful for collaboration and group work, as well as mobile work from home.

"You will find information and examples of each of the Excel Built-In Functions and information on how to combine these functions to produce a wide range of Excel Formulas. There is also a section explaining Excel Array Formulas, which will help you to make full use of some of the most useful Excel functions and formulas. "

"Interactive, Collaborative, Crowd-powered Video Learning" MIT is using Crowdy to label and insert questions in segments of video to increase learning efficiency. Stats can be collected from learners' answers.

This blog has many articles and links to webinars that will help you give your students access to wonderful cultural treasure from institutions around the world, as well as in the U.S.

Remarkably informative, instructional science blog with all kinds of infographics, video how-to's, etc. For teachers and teens and up.

R. Byrne's article on using MapFAST, a Google Maps app: find books about nearby places. A great way to get students interested in local -- or distant -- history and geography.

R. Byrne explores 5 excellent tools for podcasting or recording speech for listening/speaking practice. One in particular, AudioBoom, offers users a way to synchronize sound recorded with images. Byrne includes short instructional videos, too.

"Speech Recognition is a free Google Docs Add-on that will allow to you speak to create a document. " T/H to R Byrne.

Searching by file type and searching by domains is a great way for students to refine their Google searches. Searching for and within a DOC, a PPT, or XLS file can lead students to resources that they might not otherwise have seen.

These are three ways to hear from students what they think about the class and how things are going for them. Well worth consideration as alternative assessment procedures. From Vicki Davis on Edutopia

Great strategies, and a number of links to videos and other resources with examples of the various strategies.

"Paper versions of graphic organizers can do a nice job of that. But by making them digital in Google Apps, they instantly become customizable. Multiple people can collaborate on them in real time. They can be shared with a link, embedded in a website or downloaded as an image file."

Google organizers on a single page.

An excellent way to use ThingLink in class/in a flipped class. This particular example is a picture of a whiteboard. Read all about it at ThingLink.

"Over 10,000 complete Common Core-aligned lessons from our 130 Master Teachers. Introducing a brand new, free resource from the BetterLesson team featuring the highest quality Common Core-aligned lessons created through our Master Teacher Project."

"Stories are a part of the bedrock of human evolution sharing wisdom, history and cultural values to citizens growing into their society. How storytelling has evolved, and is evolving, is the inspiration for this infograph, which explores the evolutionary process of this important aspect of human life. Share on visually, the inforgraph starts off with the origins of storytelling, all the way through to modern times, concluding with a 'in the future' section discussing how this evolution will continue. Certainly a great resource for discussion with colleagues and pupils alike."

"Word clouds can help students analyze documents written by others as well as documents of their own creation. By copying the text of a document into a word cloud generator your students can quickly see the words that appear most frequently in that document. Word clouds can also be used to help students see which words that they have frequently used in their own works. Have your students create word clouds of their work during the revision process of writing a story or essay. The word cloud will quickly show students which words they have used the most. Then ask them to think about synonyms for the words that they have used most often in their writings. " T/H R.Byrne

"There is great need - and increasing willingness - to understand the world as children with autism experience it." EllenNotbohm published a books on this topic, and synposizes the best parts in this blog article. The tips are also good for "normal" children who may misbehave in class for reasons they don't understand themselves.

This article is a good reminder of the dangers of research and broad generalizations about educations and how students learn

The ways include Google Drive, Padlet, Dropbox/DropItToMe, AirDrop (for iPads), and Next Vista Learning. These would be good ways to get around the YouTube restrictions in some countries. T/H R. Byrne