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Google's blog with tips for accessibility add-ons for use with chromebooks

if you need to bookmark a site and want to have a copy of your bookmarked sites accessible from any computer- it's free and very easy to use.  LiveBinders is like having a 3-ring binder for the Web- collect your resources, organize them easily, present them to your students/colleagues.  Your students can access them from the laptops simply by going to the site and searching for your public binder by name, or by logging in with your information.  You can make your binders private or public.  There are hundreds already made that you may be able to use in your classroom (someone else has already done the work for you) - if it is public you can make a copy of it and save the binder in your account!

Great resource to find official websites for authors and illustrators. In Indiana, we also have free access to teachingbooks.net for this as well.

Great way to aggregate many different sources for easy access.

Bernie Dodge was one of the first originators of webquests.  While webquest.org is no longer updated, there are some features of QuestGarden that you can access for free.  Subscriptions are $20 for two years.

I found this website that has multiple activities with fractions.  It includes the materials needed for the activities and instructions.  It lists extensions and assessment ideas.  It also has a listing of books about fractions.  It even contains links to other websites where students can play fraction games.  (And I only had trouble accessing one of the links.) From Heather Johnson

All students get access to this via a district subscription.  Simply use the name of our district for both the log-in ID and Password.  Students may use this at home as well.  It includes far more than just articles.

INature is the fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives-food, drinking water, the stuff we own, and the air we breathe. That's why The Nature Conservancy and its 550 scientists have created Nature Lab: to help students learn the science behind how nature works for us and how we can help keep it running strong. Access Nature Lab resources aligned to The Nature Conservancy's research and designed specifically for a young audience and classroom use.

Learn how to get free access to some of the Ancestry resouces, and find lesson plans in several areas

Interesting premise: the purpose of close reading is not for the teacher to provide the background

Check out this example of  using symbaloo to collect valued websites.