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Check these out and see how many you are now familiar with ! We hit most of the first 25 or so. Check out others for sharing in the smackdown if you are still looking for ideas!

This is really cool!  You can get lectures for free from one of the best universities in the country, which can help enhance your own knowledge.  

Just for a little bit of reference for those kids entering their Freshman year in 2010. 

Social Studies teachers, check this one out and see what is useful to you. (They also publish "on this day in Spanish" for you MFL teachers. 

Interested in reading one teacher's reflection on the first day of school? Here's a blog by Karl Fisch, who created that original "Did you know?" powerpoint. This looks like a blog specifically to share what happened in class each day as a part journal, part reflection, part transparent "open" teaching. It's worth reading - and rings true to what the first day is often about (if you are organized and everything goes according to plan).

In case you didn't have enough tools yet . .. here are a few more (and a recap of the biggest ones)

I found this short post and diagram really helpful and clear in how it articulates information access, selection and use, the tools, how information is extended and then how it is recalled or put into context. This might help visualize what to do with all the information that just seems to flood in, as well as that which we seek out intentionally. See what you think.  (from twitter)

Nice call! I saw this post from Richard Byrne and thought it would be good for folks to see. Glad you liked it too.