Group items tagged

Backupify builds a single, searchable archive of all your online data. First 2GB FREE, and $5/month for 20 GB. For those with blogs, this might be an easy way to keep your blog backed up, and also for teachers who use Google Docs/calendar/sites/etc.

Yale University has made more than 250,000 digital images available online. Discover Yale Digital Commons is the search engine for the Yale Digital Commons. Through Discover Yale Digital Commons you can search through the archives of five museums, libraries, and galleries administered by Yale. The images in the Yale Digital Commons have been labeled Public Domain.

Great collection of math & science videos - especially for high school level. Each video has a transcript, which I though was helpful. This is a must have link on resources for students, and helpful for teachers as they look at presenting information.

This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents (National Middle School Association, 2010) identifies interdisciplinary teams as one of these organizational features and reminds us that these teams need "daily or regular common planning time" so they "can plan ways to integrate the curriculum, analyze assessment data, examine student work, discuss current research, and reflect on the effectiveness of instructional approaches being used" (p. 32). Teachers also use common planning time to address management issues related to individual student and parent concerns, the day-to-day management of the team, and scheduling of activities. 

Cool site with 830 papers you can download. Really great for math & music teachers, but there is stuff here for anyone.

Anyone interested in Chromebooks might want to take the 60 minutes to get a nice overview of Chromebooks in education. Presented by Google and includes sharing by a teacher who piloted them in his classroom.

Anne Hinchcliff shared this great article that I think will help clarify for school admin., tech coordinators, teachers, students, etc. what our responsibilities and roles are in digital citizenship with regard to appropriate content. BalancedFiltering.org is a grassroots campaign to promote balanced content filtering in schools which complies with the law, promotes accountability, and encourages responsible digital citizenship.

SchoolTube.com is the nation's largest K-12 moderated video sharing website that provides students and educators with a safe and FREE video sharing website that is exclusively endorsed by leading education associations. *Also, for teachers in districts where YouTube is restricted, YouTube videos can be stored and shared without the unnecessary ads or comments.

This website can help teachers guide students in the scientific process and writing.- for labs and other experiments. Check it out!

Check out this great use of Livebinders to help students add content to a curriculum. This teacher did it with 3rd graders...me thinks older students could do even more with it. Great collaborative application and think of the possibilities for PBL. 

Ready for the next generation of textbook creation that utilizes good pedagogy? Imagine a living, breathing, dynamic textbook that offers different assignments for each individual based on their learning styles, allows for student-created work to be posted and featured based on accuracy/creativity votes and having students all around the world discuss content and share resources in real time through an integration with Google's new social networking service Google +.  Imagine all of this in a new dynamically changing interactive living 21st Century textbook ecosystem. Brain Mannix  would like to use the Blackboard/Collaborate platform as an engine to bring students and teachers around the world together to make this happen. Check it out!

Richard Byrne discusses two great ways to collect student work online, whether it be a Word or Google doc/presentation, etc. Powerful way to cut down on paperwork and filling your email Inbox.

Create a library of videos for teachers and students that are safe. Check out the other features that might make this a great tool for the classroom

Using Edmodo (specifically setup with schools in mind) - Ideas for using in Middle School/High School. Excellent  list generated by teachers.

Lessonopoly, a free tool that lets you manage your classroom, find and share lesson plans, and connect with other teachers. Over 30,000 plans to choose from!

Great, easy lesson on how to teach the power of privilege to young people in the school environment (and other settings, as well).

"An infopic is a photo with text layered on top that is designed to communicate a message. The message might be a summary, quote, definition, notes, data, weblink, hashtag, or other informational tidbits. The information might come from a conference, workshop, activity, lesson, video, book, a conversation, etc. Your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google Plus are great places to share infopics." Tony shares how to create infopic in a great video. He is an amazing teacher!

Nick Provenzano aka The Nerdy Teacher, shares his ideas on how to embrace and implement Ed. Tech. in 2015

On the Teaching Professor blog, the author starts with: "In May I finished a second edition of my Learner-Centered Teaching book. Revising it gave me the chance to revisit my thinking about the topic and look at work done since publication of the first edition ten years ago. It is a subject about which there is still considerable interest." And that it is. Check out the five characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching helped me to think about my own thoughts of Learner-Centered engagement as a Tech. Coordinator who loves teachers and teaching.