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107 iPad apps..."Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. A growing number of schools across the world are jumping on the digital bus and embracing iPads as the latest tool to teach literature in multimedia, history through games and simulations, and maths with step-by-step animation of problems."

DogEared is a blog ALL about books. Good books, funny books, adventure books. Books about animals, friendship, pirates, faraway places... Books about, well, almost EVERYTHING!!

Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. New features allows teachers to track student progress. Free trial currently available.

"Everything educators, students, and parents need to make the writing process work in the classroom and at home "

Fun keyboarding practice

Here is a great article with links to sites that offer free educational videos  This is the 1st time I am using Diigo to share and hope I am doing it successfully.  Kimberly

A great list of free tools to use in your classroom.

Channels for educational videos

"Professional Development is a life-long learning process that involves different activities including individual progress, continuing education, inservice education, peer collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring. The importance of professional development lays in the fact that it is closely related to the overall quality of education and students achievements. Teachers who stop learning and suffice themselves with the curriculum content soon turn into hard working students only a step above their actual students."

Looks like some new great apps for us to check out.

Amazing possibilities for math I think with the apps discussed in this blog. Love the idea of students recording how they solved math problem on an iPad and then sharing with the class via the interactive white board. Wow!

Can't wait to check this out.

Free access to high-quality digital books from around the world. Browse by age, genre, book length, character types, or even the color of a book's cover.

Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs.

Make your own awards and certificates.

A complete reading program with affordable books, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments to teach leveled reading, phonics, phonemic awareness, alphabet...and so much more.

A fun game that teaches keyboarding skills.

i21 support site for bookmarking

Glogster EDU Premium is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom. Perhaps, a great alternative to traditional book reports or any kind of report. Some things you can do with Glogster are: * Glog - interactive poster * Collaborative class projects * School-level teacher management of students and classes * Engage students in fun and creative activities

A professional article (and resource) with information about PLC, including what they are how and tips for successful implementation.

This site is designed to provide teachers with a directory of free webtools along with some suggestions as to how they may be used in the classroom. The owner of this wiki page has searched over 2000 websites and listed over 295 tools. Definitely worth a look.