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Great collection of resources on Google Apps for educators. I've forwarded this to teachers so they can survey a wide variety of topics. Check it out! In addition, I'm going to look at using LiveBinders as a way of organizing different resources to share with others or just as a way or organizing them for quick access.

Teacher Vicki Davis speaks out on how to organize your habits to become more effective - "What are the habits that are going to help me be the kind of person I want to be in this life?" - using "Home Routines" - http://www.homeroutines.com/ - an iPhone/iPad app that helps set up routines to build those habits. Very helpful!

gClassFolders is a tool that allows for management of all the files that students share with teachers and allows for sharing easily with students. The setup is straight forward and sets up three folders for students for a class - Edit, Preview(Read Only) and Dropbox to turn work in. If your school can't afford Hapara or you don't want to spend lots of time setting up folders, this may be the tool for you.

Excellent introduction to the practice of Curation for Professional Learning. Engage in curation by using the steps of aggregation, evaluation, and organization. Use these resources to support all aspects of your teaching practice.

Although this is written with younger students in mind, there are some good ideas of the skills all beginning bloggers need to learn, how to organize posts in a spreadsheet and track posts using Feedly, an RSS reader. Some good ideas for the classroom teacher. If 4th graders can blog, why not older students?

Sharing and collecting student work in Google Drive takes some work when manually creating folders. gClassFolders makes that process easier for both students & teachers. View the demo video to get a sense of the process. This is a free way to get the job done. You may also want to look at Hapara, which has bells and whistles that'll surprise you!

Annotary is a nice alternative to Diigo & Delicious - simplifies bookmarking, highlighting, and sharing bookmarks. Great place to start for students/teachers just learning how to organize bookmarks using a Web 2.0 tool

"Mr. Robb's Math is a YouTube channel containing 555 videos produced by high school mathematics teacher Bradley Robb. Mr. Robb's videos explain and demonstrate solving problems in Algebra I, Algebra II, and Calculus. Most of the videos are recorded while Mr. Robb is teaching. You can find the videos on the Mr. Robb's Math YouTube channel or visit Mr. Robb's website WowMath to find the videos organized in sequence with accompanying screenshots."

Joann Fox (AppEducation.com), a member of my PLN, shares how she's made Twitter her top Personal Learning activity and how you can, too. Oh, yeah, she's a CA teacher like you, except she does 4th grade...and is a blogger, San Diego Co. Teacher of Year, CA , co-founder of #CAedchat, #EdCampSD organizer, and Google Certified Teacher. She's a connected teacher.

"Through digital curation we collect, manage and collate the best, most relevant content, on a specific topic or theme,  for ourselves and share with others. Using tools like Scoop.it, Pinterest, Diigo and Livebinders educators collect the best resources to put them into context with organization, annotation and presentation." This post is a summary of ideas, tips, and resources to become an effective curator.

Here is a LiveBinder with resources used for a Virtual Summer Camp (technology camp for teachers). Again, using LiveBinders makes it a snap to organize resources you want to share.

"KidInfo.com is an educational web resource that saves teachers, students, and parents valuable time by providing - in ONE website directory - the BEST Pre K-12 curriculum links to educational resources, videos, and powerpoints. KID INFO is UNIQUELY different from other educational web directories, as it is easy to navigate, and is the ONLY educational web directory that organizes websites according to SPECIFIC, rather than general, curriculum studied in schools throughout the United States, and many other countries around the world."

Julie Greller is an educational media specialist in a New Jersey junior-senior high school. Recommended by Richard Byrne, of Free Technology for Teachers, it to be a well organized resource that all K-12 educators could benefit from. Julie has organized her site into three sections, one each for elementary, middle, and high school. Within each section are dozens of subsections for all manner of topics taught in public schools.

"During class time, the teacher will stand at the front of the room and hold forth on the day's topic. Then, as the period ends, he or she will give students a clutch of work to do at home. Lectures in the day, homework at night. It was ever thus and ever shall be. But one American teacher is taking a different approach - and in the process, he's offering a lesson in innovation for organizations of every kind. Karl Fisch is a 20-year veteran of Arapahoe High School, located south of Denver, Colorado. For the past 14 years, the one-time maths teacher has been the school's technology coordinator." Learn about the Fisch Flip - instead of having students do algebra problems at home after listening to the lecture at school, he has flipped it around, and puts his lectures on the web and then does the work with students at school. It's working well. Check out his videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/karlfisch

This list is considered the "best of the best" by AASL and is comprised of free, user-friendly sites that encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. They also provide a foundation to support AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. The sites offer tools and resources in content collaboration, content resources with lesson plans, curriculum sharing, digital storytelling, managing and organizing, and social networking and communication.

Organization site for urls.Bunch a set of links together into one url and share the link to view the sites. Switch between the sites using the convenient bar at the top of the screen. Great for making sets of resources. - Martin Burrett

Even if you can't get paperless, these strategies will help reduce the amount of paper you have on your desk, in files, etc. I like the "scan & shred" as a way to reduce paper kept. You could scan and store in folder in files backed up to a server, Google Docs, or Dropbox. For more sensitive documents, I would store in files that are stored on a school server that can be passed along, when necessary. 

Here are some good tips on how to streamline the information you face on the Internet, email, etc. Like Jodie, I'm working to implement the GTD organizational system using Evernote, Diigo, Google Reader, Twitter, Google Drive, etc. 

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A project-based-learning teacher and coach writes about "the most effective tool for organizing content and motivating students to think hard."