From the site, "Research and revise a wide variety of school subjects as Videojug presents tips and tutorials for a range of subjects across the school-board. Learn or re-learn English, Maths, Science , Modern and Traditional Foreign Languages, Sign Language, Politics, History and Geography. Between brain-teasers and fun experiments theres something for scholars old and new." Interesting take on organizing some of the many videos available on the internet. 

Google continues to support educators in developing student capacity to use the internet for academic search. Great resource to help teachers take an intentional developmental approach to student research skills. 

Very simple blog post from Scott McLeod. Five quotes about learning and change from the Flickr group by that same name. Very, very interesting way of producing a blog post that gets people thinking, and maybe talking. 

hese tricks will help you take advantage of Google Drive, both on the desktop and on the web - whether you're looking to easily synchronize other folders with your Drive or take advantage of the features only available on the website.

Formative Assessment Learning Tasks. This site is the beginning of the Gates Mathematics Collaborative work in KY (Math FALs). 

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) videos are designed to support states, schools, and teachers in the implementation of the CCSS. The videos were created in collaboration with the states in the Southeast Comprehensive Center region based on their needs for professional development support for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Each video is an audiovisual resource that focuses on one or more specific standards and usually includes examples/illustrations geared to enhancing understanding. The intent of each content-focused video is to clarify the meaning of the individual standard rather than to be a guide on how to teach each standard although the examples can be adapted for instructional use.

TED brings their thoughtful approach to lesson development for classroom use. The animation of videos is interesting and worth exploring. I am more intrigued by the possibility of developing a library of good lessons using YouTube and the TED talks.There is power in numbers. 

Very cool music creation site.

Great music clip library for use in presentations and podcasts. 

Nice well-rounded iPad Launch Proposal from Miguel Guhlin. He is thorough in his plan, and the plan is on-going, long-term, developmental, and shows what success would look like for teachers.  He is upfront about using some of the great ideas of others, and asks for feedback to make it even better. if you are looking for a great framework for working with teachers on developing teacher capacity using mobile devices this is a good place to start. 

What mathematical competencies must a teacher have to teach the subject well? This has proven difficult to investigate (1). A current view is that teachers' knowledge of mathematics "remains inert in the classroom unless accompanied by a rich repertoire of mathematical knowledge and skills relating directly to the curriculum, instruction, and student learning" (2). Unfortunately, there is no consensus on which "knowledge and skills" might activate teachers' inert knowledge. Two perspectives prevail, neither with a research base that enables strong claims about practice. The majority of current studies focus on explicit knowledge of curriculum content and instructional strategies. Such knowledge might be assessed directly through observation, interview, or written test (2), with a parallel research emphasis on the formal contents of teacher education programs [e.g., (3)]. A second school of thought, presented here, is that the most important competencies tend to be tacit, like skills involved in playing concert piano, learned but not necessarily available to consciousness.

very interesting music creator. i'm not sure of it's value as a teaching tool (I don't know enough about music), but it is very cool, and there is a lot of math behind it. 

Great free online graphing calculator. 

One of a growing number of quiz apps that are available. Easy to use, but a litte rudimentary in that it only allows you to take a quiz and does not have a study mode. You can review your results and analyze how you are doing which is very cool. Easy to create new quizzes and share, which is good, and you can add images to your quizzes, which is key.  I still think I prefer gflash+ for it's flexibility in the study mode but it might be a nice combination of apps for some online quizzing using MC questions. 

Quantitative analysis for readability from the makers of Accelerated Reader. Compares nicely to the Lexile Reading Levels, and is in the Common Core for use in analyzing text. 

easy to use online photo editing site. Connects easily with flickr or saves to computer. 

Great common core math tools site from Bill McCallum's work in Arizona for PARCC

Smarter Balanced consortium page for CC tools and resources

o provide states with additional Common Core State Standards implementation support, the Council of Chief State School Officers hosted a one-hour webinar on Thursday, January 26th at 2 p.m. EST to share tools and resources to support teachers and districts on text complexity, which is the linchpin of the ELA standards. The webinar featured Sue Pimentel, a member of the Common Core State Standards English language arts writing committee, as well as representatives from the Kansas and Louisiana Departments of Education.

Videos supporting instruction that aligns with the Common Core vision.