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"If you're new to flipped classrooms or have known about the concept for awhile but haven't made the plunge, the handy infographic below takes a look at some of the basics of flipped classrooms: what are some of the advantages, why and how they work, and how both teachers and students are responding to the flipped classroom model." A nice start to thinking about the advantages of flipping the classroom. Now about those kids who won't do homework...

You may find it extremely useful to upload files to a secure site to share to another of your own computers or with collaborative associates and students. This site offers 15 GB storage to begin, a good deal more than Dropbox. Get it while it's still free.

"For decades, education reform has been focused on curriculum, assessment, instruction, and more recently standards, and data, with these efforts only bleeding over into how students think briefly, and by chance. This means that the focus of finite teacher and school resources are not on promoting thinking and understanding, but rather what kinds of things students are going to be thinking about and how they'll prove they understand them." The cognitive emphasis in Bloom's taxonomy is heartening, but beware of using the spiral in an overly rigid way. It's all too easy to get stuck on the lower levels of "knowing": remembering or factual information, while never quite getting to the higher levels of creativity.

This page includes both old and new versions of Bloom, and offers a small selection of appropriate verbs to use while setting objectives. Very useful while creating lesson plans and developing curriculum. The cognitive emphasis in Bloom's taxonomy is heartening, but beware of using the pyramid in an overly rigid way. It's all too easy to get stuck on the lower levels of "knowing": remembering or factual information, while never quite getting to the higher levels of creativity. Is Bloom appropriate for language acquisition?

There are some good ideas here, mainly because they are encouraging students to draw some of their own conclusions about how they appear on the Internet, and what the dangers might be.

This looks like a very useful application to make pdfs more interactive and useful as teaching tools: "Turn your vision into reality by creating your own version of an existing PDF or textbook. Give it a dynamic touch, jot down notes, add video/audio clips, and discuss materials with your readers within your interactive content. Use Active Textbook to learn, teach or simply share your documents online - it's easy! "

A nice collection for students to explore science. Project- and content-based learning for young learners-adults.

This is an incredibly good tool to shape your video instruction. EmbedPlus lets you annotate any YouTube video with your own comments and then embed it on your own webpage or wiki (also supports WordPress). You could take your own video, upload it to YouTube and insert directions for note-taking, suggestions for other activities, and so on. With the Pro version (currentl $14.99/lifetime!) you can add external links to your annotations, and the interface will inform you if a video you are using has been taken down or moved. A Slow button lets you watch the action in slow-motion. Again, the Pro service lets you crop and splice interesting parts of the video. I hope this tool stay around for a while and remains free.

A few things of interest -- content, dictionary, "lessons" based on quizzes, BBC Languages (40 different ones) with an area for children, etc. The problem with lists is that there is no categorizing or selection process.

This is a good, very short article on how to co-teach with learners with disabilities. But the advice is good on creating groups and managing your classroom, regardless of whether you have students with disabilites. Article by S. Land.

There are actually 4 STEMs sites, and one linking to the Federal Registry of Educational Excellence (FREE), with a huge collection of animations, photographs, videos, maps, articles, etc.

A complete Standards-based curriculum of tests, quizzes, and drills, if you are into that sort of thing. This site is totally cringe-worthy, and makes big promises without much but anecdotal evidence. You might find some tools and lessons and quizzes useful, but use with care. K-8

"If for any reasons you do not want to upload your classroom videos to YouTube and are looking for another free hosting video that can allow you to upload and share your videos Google Drive is one of your best options. Only few Google Drive users know that there is a functionality in Google Drive that enables anyone with a Google Drive account to instantly upload their videos and after the upload you can get an embed code to integrate your video anywhere on the web. Here is how you can do it." Since many schools/districts do not want their students on YouTube, this is a useful substitute. I'd try a wiki like PbWorks to see if you can embed from Google Drive.

"Every educator, from kindergarten to graduate school, should contribute to the important and significant work of teaching students to use online sources and social networks for educational and professional goals. To ignore the technology, or assume that our students already know it because they use it every day, is to participate in educational malpractice." A very sensible article about what main tools are used to move kids from social media to academic purposes -- and how to get them there. Speaks to PLNs, PLEs, Pinterest, curation with Diigo, Symbaloo, Netvibes, Twitter. Very good explanation of how the work, the advantages, and the possible problems. Hybrid Pedagogy is a Digital Journal with a team of editors and writers.

I thought Jing had disappeared, but it seems you can still use it: Capture your computer screen in a basic video; capture animations, and still images; share on the Web. Edit on Screencast.com, also by TechSmith.

"CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) " Another great free product to create screencasts for instructional purposes.

Screen capture and desktop recording tools: considers CamStudio, Active Presenter, BB Flashback, Jing, Screenspresso, and the free trial version of Camtasia Studio. These are useful tools for creating screencasts and presentations (which are really usually two very different functions). Doesn't mention anything mobile.

"To use SummarizeThis you just copy and paste text into the summary box and click "summarize." A summary of the text then appears above the original text that you copied." Crazy, isn't it. Are computers really able to summarize an article appropriately? Try it out. R. Byrne suggests using this tool to help students working on longer research papers where many things need to be collected and processed.

A free online video editing tool -- also for Android and iOS.

Based on NOVA's "How Does the Brain Work?" program, " One of the online supplements to How Does the Brain Work? is this interactive collection of images of brain scans. The collection of images, titled Mapping the Brain, allows you to choose from six imaging methods and choose the part(s) of the brain that you want to see highlighted in the scans." R. Byrne also describes resources for teachers to use in conjunction with the show for high school and middle school students.