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Welcome to Under The Hood Dive into search and learn more about what happens behind the scenes of Google Search. Play with our Experiments Lab and get a better look at the technology behind Google.

The Horizon Report. 

Message your class A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free.

Adam Bellow presents his Tech Commandment's rapid-fire at the #140edu in New York. Thanks to Jeff and Chris for helping to organize this amazing event! 

Pretty neat gaming framework geared toward 4-9th grade on game design.

Very interesting Math software from UMass Dartmouth. 

Most agree that math smarts are essential to the country's future.

This year as part of my assistant principal duties I have the privilege of overseeing ENL instruction and learning in my school.  This week at my district AP meeting our ENL coordinator shared a great tip that administrators who have ENL/ESL students can share with their teachers.  

An interesting Math channel. 

It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school's principal, decided to try something extreme-by Finnish standards. One of his sixth-grade students, a Kosovo-Albanian boy, had drifted far off the learning grid, resisting his teacher's best efforts. The school's team of special educators-including a social worker, a nurse and a psychologist-convinced Louhivuori that laziness was not to blame. So he decided to hold the boy back a year, a measure so rare in Finland it's practically obsolete.

Here are some pre-made lesson plans you can use with Google Docs and a few other services we already have here in District 30.

I've made them because sometimes I need to make a custom image to illustrate a specific idea when I'm writing about a topic. During this process, I've found some simple tools that I've used to create an illustration with a specific scene, add characters and props, and even write captions for characters. Here's one I made trying to explain an idea about formative assessment:

Primary Ipad apps

The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project is a two-year study of the student research process.  The project is funded by an LSTA grant awarded to Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) by the Illinois State Library.  The goal of the project is to understand how students do research, and how relationships between students, teaching faculty and librarians shape that process.  ERIAL is also an applied study-that is, research pursued with the purpose of uncovering, understanding and addressing social problems.  As such, its goal is to use the results to develop more user-centered library services.

CHICAGO -- For a stranger, the main library at the University of Illinois at Chicago can be hard to find. The directions I got from a pair of clerks at the credit union in the student center have proven unreliable. I now find myself adrift among ash trees and drab geometric buildings.

Why Use YouTube in your classroom?Increase student engagementStart your class off with an engaging video clip that brings a lesson to life and sparks a lively discussion.No longer will students be late for physics class when you begin the class with an engaging clip

Improved Map Maker! 

Tikatok Create a Book What kind of book do you want to create?

As researchers develop low-cost applications, those living with autism are able to advance much faster than when using traditional methods of treatment. We take a look at three of the most recommended apps for autism to date.