CVSD Secondary Group

The social platform Google+ has some excellent integrated tools that students can draw on to study collaboratively. Two of these tools are Circles and Hangout. The Circles feature allows users to create group of contacts with whom they can easily converse and share materials. Google Hangout allows you to hold video conferences with a limited group of people. The great thing I like about Google Hangout is the things you can do while using it. You can for instance share your screen, collaborate on a Google Doc or even use a collaborative whiteboard. Hangouts can be recorded and streamed live on YouTube.

Thinkbinder is a tool that provides a collaborative way to work with others.

Examtime is a platform that allows you to create, share and discover resources, build mind maps, flashcards, quizzes and notes for free. .Examtime also has a feature called "groups" which enables students to create study groups. Study groups are a good place for teachers and students to share learning materials and study resources.

Common sense media provides a variety of science games for kids ages 2- 13+

How to smile.org includes a variety of science & math activities. There are interactives as well as videos.

Ecokids the award-winning environmental education site from Earth Day Canada

Fun Science games This site allows the user to filter by experiments, comics, games and videos

Interesting Ways includes ideas for using Google Tools, including forms, docs, earth, searching, and maps. It also includes information on ipads in the classroom, IWB, Ipod touch, class blog posts, mobile phones, audio, video camera, QR codes, reading, creative commons, writing, internet safety gaming, wordle, twitter, voicethread, prezi, moodle search engines, wallwisher and wikis.

Site to sign up for donations of school materials.

Players aged 8 and up shape the future of a new society while learning how to recognize ethical issues and deal with challenging situations in their own lives.

8 tips to power-up your classroom presentations. These tips are very good and clear to follow.

Ipad workflow charts for making a poster, talking research, and vocabulary words on the ipad

Guide on google draw tips and basics

Drawing tools for teachers and students.

video on using google draw to create mind maps

I pads for schools is a site with a collection of apps for all grade levels.

This article lists the advantages of iOS7 for education.

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything

Digital Footprint - has a nice video included to share with students when introducing the topic of digital footprint.

list of apps for the start of the school year.