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Demo video shows Bloom's taxonomy-based question prompts used to help generate text-based worksheets with the automated, online, lesson preparation tool, LessonWriter.

I tried this tonight...will teach the lesson and see how it goes but it seems useful. I was actually looking for a way to manage my workflow for lesson plans. any suggestions?

We are at a crossroads in educating our youth. Since public schools became the norm for education, we've identified curriculum based on the social, political, and economic need. We've classified what counts into tight packages of content in subject areas as math, science, social studies, and so on. Echoing Owen, Grant, Sayers, and Facer (2006), our approach to teaching and learning, including the order and how information is presented to students, the stages of assessment and what constitutes appropriate discussion on those subjects have also been tightly defined (p. 31). Advancements in technology, principally Web 2.0, social software, and digital tools, have challenged what it means to be educated and how we proceed to educate our youth in a culture where innovation and creativity, lifelong learning, personalization (my own learning space), and knowledge from and with the collective vie for a rightful place.

This site has great articles for educators on using technology for teaching.

an excellent website with many tools for learning

Open source classroom mgt software. Replaces programs like Vision6, LanSchool and NetSupport School. Intelligent Teaching and Learning with Computers, aka iTALC, gives teachers the tools they need to manage a computer-based classroom without the high license fees of commercial software. Key features include remote control, demo viewing, overview mode, workstation locking and VPN access for off-site students. Operating System: Windows, Linux

Convert to Cartoon is a cool website to use with your students . It converts your photos and images to cartoons . It resembles Be Funky , the tool I have covered in a poste entitled Be Funky ; Create Amazing Classroom Photos . Convert to Cartoon is very simple to use and does not require a sign up . Students love cartoons and teaching using cartonic materials is quite engaging and motivating for our kids . Now you can let your students use their own pictures and turn them into cartoons to create dialogues and storytelling lines . I have tried the website and found it very interesting .

My toolkit is filled with tools I use regularly, but one of my personal favorite learning platforms is Wikispaces because it's a simple tool that has many useful features for designing and implementing Common Core aligned learning experiences.

15 Free Learning Tools You've Probably Never Heard Of

a collection of tools to create educational infographics

I have been an advocate for using ePortfolios for authentic assessment for quite some time. While I have made several attempts to help teachers learn to design and mange ePortfolios using a variety of digital tools to accomplish the task, I've discovered that teachers don't always have the time or patience to see it through. I've come to the conclusion that if we are going to use ePortfolios as a standard assessment tool, the teacher buy-in needs to begin with a tool that is easy to use. Fortunately, I have recently discovered Open School ePortfolio and I am excited about potential for success it offers.

TeachEm is a free and user friendly digital tool that allows users to capture YouTube content, organize it, and add time stamped flashcards to guide the learning.

SO cool it's ICE COLD! This tool makes it easier to truncate a URL for any website. This is especially useful when going to a website LIVE in your classroom that's very long or complex. If you are logged into your Passaic Google account before you use this, you can save all your websites and record usage information on those links.

SO cool it's ICE COLD! This tool makes it easier to truncate a URL for any website. This is especially useful when going to a website LIVE in your classroom that's very long or complex. If you are logged into your Passaic Google account before you use this, you can save all your websites and record usage information on those links.

InstaGrok is an intelligent visual search engine and interactive learning tool that collects educational content and displays it in the form of a cloud of related words. The tool is very appealing because it offers a variety of multimedia features to meet the unique learning needs of students.

New generation of blogging tools. Easy to use and great for teachers to use with students.

Awesome tool to get students actively engaged. Teacher has the ability to monitor all student accounts.

Web based tools. 

Tools from Annenberg for school improvement

a "top 10 list" of go-to technology tools to help inspire young students and empower under-funded teachers.

Finding the Right Tool. Research, media, collaboration and much more.

Engrade is a free set of web-based tools for educators allowing them to manage their classes online while providing parents and students with 24/7 real-time online class information. It's private, secure, truly free, and unbelievably easy to use - so join over 150,000 teachers and start using Engrade today.