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Create a map with your students names, or they can log in themselves to add notes. Choose world, US, countries, or flags. Good short writing practice, and/or to introduce themselves, especially for an onine class. Print, embed, change colors, etc. Or use the maps for geography or history in a content-lesson.

A nice collection of apps for iPads for younger learners. Includes writing, telephony, geography, maths, and literacy.

Visual examples of how a teacher engages students while controlling the classroom through movement and gesture.

A demonstration with whiteboard of a teacher using gestures and intonation to elicit responses from students. How we talk and move effects our class.

An interesting article from Slate and Future Tense, an e-zine from Arizona State University, that discusses how constructivism may have been lost in the rush to make education cheaper for universities. Linked articles discuss Certificates for online courses and other issues in the MOOC movement.

Science activities, games, and apps for all ages of students by this premier science museum in Chicago; videos would work well with science lessons.

This is a nice article summarizing the major current models of instructional design, with resources noted. Excellent place to start for professional growth or teacher education course.

An article from the Dare County School District with a nice info graphic of Bloom's Taxonomy, revised in the 90s by Anderson, et al. Emphasizes what a learning can do as stages in a process. Also includes a wheel with several processes that might be involved in various parts of lessons that fulfill the taxonomy.

"Keeping students captivated and ready to learn throughout the year is no small task. Here's a list of articles, videos, links, and other resources that offer strategies and advice for retaining their attention." This is an interesting set of links to explore on how and why students become engaged in the learning process.

The Science Genius project is demonstrated through an energetic classroom teacher. The project aims to use students' local culture, in this case rap/hip-hop, to engage students' attention and draw them into science concepts actively. Great video demonstration, and also works for students who haven't ever written rap music before.

This is an exhaustive rubric for six domains of online teaching, including learner support and resources, organization, assessment, etc.

This short cartoon video shows the general principles for editing video footage, photos, etc., and putting together a good-looking presentation.

I offer this to those still using Word and PCs of some sort. (My personal preference is OpenOffice.) However, a number of these keyboard "shortcuts" seem more complex than just doing them by hand (e.g., Ctl-X to cut, position cursor, and Ctl-V to paste). A nice feature of this blog entry is that each tip is illustrated with a gif animation.

Over 200 videos on U.S. and World History. Might be useful for more advanced students.

A series of videos show how to make an iBook and get it onto the iBookseller site. Students could be published!

An extensive series of videos on such topics as the structure of the cell. Great for ESP in molecular biology, genetics, anatomy, and other biology topics.

This nice update has good infographics to help you get started in creating a flipped classroom: "it's not about where and when the learning will take place, it's all about who the attention is focused on."

This 25 min. video tutorial shows how to set up your flipped classroom and use iMovie to create polished lectures for your lessons. Your adult or young learners may also use the information to create their own presentations or peer-teaching lessons.

The PBS site is free and has wonderful video and interactive activities for young and very young learners, that allow them to investigate the relationship between science and other aspects of real life. Very high quality and suggestive discussion questions, even if you don't use all the materials. Includes daily news stories and technology tips.

"Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension and vocabulary development software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, helps them learn words in new ways, and helps teachers create high-interest learning materials from any English text passage. "Just paste in a difficult English sentence, paragraph, or more, or enter a web page URL and click the button. You'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding now. No dictionary needed! Plus, the easier version is specially highlighted to help build vocabulary." I don't know about the claims for learning English faster, but it seems like a great, free tool to help faster reading of web pages that are not designed for non-native speakers.