Collaboration Coaches

Google Drive Apps and Microsoft Office FREE tutorials (screenshots) The tutorials were developed through a research study funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education

Arizona's New Statewide Achievement Test

Digital games that focus on social impact with humanitarian or educational benefits

There is a free downloadable Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators which is a K-12 guide for educators. "Design Thinking for Educators is… A creative process that helps you design meaningful solutions in the classroom, at your school, and in your community. The toolkit provides you with instructions to explore Design Thinking."

For middle and high school teachers

This has examples of formatives created in google forms; and has a tutorial for creating google forms.

Kids younger than 13 can sign up without an email address.

global collab The Project Launched at the 2013 Global Education conference, "Out My Window" was born from a quest to have students gain global perspective. "Out My Window" classrooms share their world. Inspired by the five themes of geography, students reveal cultural awareness and understanding through original poetry and photography. The Process 1. Take a photo "out your window". 2. Write a poem incorporating the 5 themes of geography - place, location, human environment interaction, region, and movement. Look below for poetry and 5 themes resources 3. Edit your photo to your liking. Look below for editing tips. -We suggest overlaying the text onto the image like the example shown, but you can also add it separately if you'd like. 4. Share! Sharing 1. Create a Flickr account if you don't already have one. The Flickr #outmywindow group is public and by submitting you agree to the group norms 2. Once you have logged into Flickr and been added to the #outmywindow group, you can start uploading your finished product! 3. Be sure to use our Twitter hashtag - #omw1415 to continue sharing your work!

This challenge will help you set up your own class/teacher blog. If you complete the challenge, you can also use it towards the PU Online Blogging Class.

ideas and resources for implementing ELA standards w/ tech integration

"Common Sense Media welcomes you to Graphite, a platform we created to make it easier for educators to find the best apps, games, and websites for the classroom. "

This has detailed PBL examples in its project showcase. You can sort through by grade range and content area.

Great insight about coaching from Les Foltos

lots of examples & ideas of tech-rich writing

Easy to use tutorials for Google Docs & folders for sharing & a few more features (such as voice comments)