Pennsylvania Coaches

A couple of weeks ago, Megan Allen, a fifth-grade teacher in Tampa who blogs at transformED, wrote a post entitled "I've got my teacher evaluation. Now what?" In her post, Allen shared six suggestions that would help link teacher evaluations to effective professional development. The following post is our response to Megan.

A great way to take collaborative notes

"Between 1981 and 1993, documentary producer Christopher Sykes shot three films and one TV series dedicated to the charismatic, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988). We have presented these documentaries here individually before (some several years ago), but never brought them together."

For the science teacher and inquisitive kid in all of us. One of the physics gods reaching out to we mere mortals!

cool activity for geometry or tech ed, make your own 3d paper popups from their templates.

[d0x3d!] is a board game designed to introduce a divserse body of students to network security terminology, attack & defend mechanics, and basic computer security constructs.  It is available totally open-source and made freely available for order, download, and remixing.

"QR Island is a free and easy set of tools to allow you to: Convert a link to QR Code Create a simple "text-only" QR Code Convert images from the web or your PC to QR Code Create a webpage that is instantly accessible by QR Code Decode QR Codes with your webcam Scroll down to get started or click below for help/tips"

"Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs. Note: This only works for PDFs that you can open and read without any 3rd party plugins. PDFs that require a password to be viewed cannot be unlocked by this service. This is because this is not cracking. Viewable PDFs with restrictions are not really protected, no more than a door with a broken lock, as opposed to password-protected PDFs."

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"Our number one goal at GrantsAlert.com is to make life a little easier for those who devote their time to searching for education grants and identifying new funding opportunities for their organizations, schools, districts, consortia and state education agencies."

Grant links from the US Dept of Education

"a wizard for creating and managing customized Google maps of address lists"

great online typing keyboarding game

Enter a book title and you get a visualization of related books.

Keywords displaly Amazon books which are then mapped on a diagram for visual connections.

"TimelineJS is a web based timeline creator, that in my opinion is the best timeline creation tool on the web.  What I like most about this platform is that the creation process takes place in a google form.  There is a template that can be downloaded from the TimelineJS site that is automatically pulled into a users Google Drive account.  With the recent update to the Google Drive app for the iPad, this document can now be edited collaboratively. "

"help [for] those interested in learning more about iTunes U to take the next step and explore how easy it is to build a course"