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These strategies will help you design an eBook implementation districts increasingly move to digital content, many school leaders are chucking printed textbooks in favor of the more interactive content that eBooks and digital texts can offer.

These strategies will help you design an eBook implementation districts increasingly move to digital content, many school leaders are chucking printed textbooks in favor of the more interactive content that eBooks and digital texts can offer.

A fantastic presentation from Anthony Speranza addressing 21st Century Learning. A great summary and collection of resources, as well as some excellent questions to close with.

"Rather than taking Kang's words as a warning against wanting your brain cake and eating it too, I took them as a reminder that our children are entering a time when traversing context has never been as complex as it is now. When it's time to drop a verse, can they demonstrate eloquence and elaborateness? And then, in times when we need to speak a language which eliminates ambiguity in favour of transferable clarity and concision, will our kids be able to write a masterclass algorithm?" Reminded me of the discussion brought up during the interview with Ian Guest where Daryl and Tony mused about teaching code.

A collection of interesting podcasts from Royan Lee.

" This article tries to break down the 'Getting Started' aspects of Google Classroom and point out important features along the way."

This looks as though it could be a useful free tool this will help to gamify a classroom. It could help with to help to improve motivation and classroom behaviour.

"One teacher describes the big impact robotics, coding, and STEM has had on her students"

An annotated list of six resources that could be used for coding with primary school students (5-11). They are all free and provide students with opportunities to be exposed to programming.

The Gamification Guide for Teachers. This site offers gamification guides for teachers to use. It includes a variety of instructional strategies that can be implemented through games in order to develop students learning and build their skills with some specific content in mind.

"A list of apps for exploring the  world. You can click on each link to read other posts by the author who has written more detail about how they can be used in a classroom."

Google Drive has a new look and there are quite few changes. Many changes were design and user-experience improvements, Google also added some new functions. "There is a video here that offers a quick walk through, along with a list of some of our favorite changes!"

"A presentation from the 2014 Digital Learning and Teaching Victoria conference-creating new connections by Bec Spink"

An online service for recording, hosting, and sharing audio tracks. Use SoundCloud to upload and share audio recordings that you have stored on your computer. It can also be used for directly recording a spoken track. Another feature of SoundCloud is the option to comment on tracks as they are playing. To do this you click on the track and type your comment in the comment box. Your comment(s) will be attached to the spot in the track that you clicked on while listening

I enjoy watching many TedVideos. This post offers a howto to use them with students.

A collection of emerging tools useful for humanizing online learning. Annotated so you can glance through the list and then click to try them out. "