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Microsoft DreamSpark contains free downloads for students. These are mainly software development tools, but educational techies may find some tools extremely useful.

One of the most important benefits of conducting a program evaluation is using your findings to improve services, motivate staff, or even to change public policy. This tip sheet focuses on ways to use your results to improve services.

From the site: Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music. Download and try it with no time limit.

Download a free Gradebook Template for Excel. This is a spreadsheet tool for teachers who grade on a percentage or point-based system.

More Excel templates from Internet 4Classrooms, these are also aimed at elementary but with a focus on math and science

How the use of databases can help teachers to work smarter, not harder.

This website is an excellent resource for teachers who have a classroom set of iPad's or tablets. Many teachers have classroom tablets but do not know how to integrate them into the classroom. This website has a list of great apps to download for tablet use in classrooms. Students need to be engaged, challenged and be able to practice the skills learned. Using classroom tablets as a group/partner activity or individual use is a great way to incorporate technology into a lesson plan. High school students are a great age to use tablets with because they are more mature than elementary/middle school and (hopefully) will respect the technology devices.

The World's easist way to search for safe, creative commons images and cite them.

The World's easiest way to search for safe, creative commons images and cite them. Downloaded photos are already attributed, saving time and effort.

This Ted Talk can be used as an emerging trend not only in consumer choice but also technology use

Download FREE middle school grades 6-8 English language arts activities, lesson plans, educational worksheets & games today!

Voxer is a messaging app for your smartphone with live voice (like a PTT walkie talkie), text, photo and location sharing. Download Voxer for iOS, Android, Windows phone or use Voxer for web.

Create, customize and download/share - Pie, Bar, Double Bar, Spline, Area Charts and more with our free suite! Meta-Chart.com

Gamification white paper from the consulting company Bunchball. It's the first paper to go over how motivation and fun could be used in engagement, brand loyalty and consumer psychology.

The volume of social networks and resulting conversations is growing exponentially everyday. People are discovering new social networks, making more connections, downloading more social apps and buying smarter devices, all contributing to an explosion of social data. Organizations are seeking to use this data to increase sales, advance their bottom line and meet corporate goals.

Free screen recorder extension for Chrome. Capture, edit and share screencasts. No software download required. Works on Mac, Windows and Chromebooks.

I am biased as I am a Will Richardson fan. I went to a day with him last year and it changed so much about what I thought. As a direct result I signed up for twitter and began to try and connect with people. He wrote a book on PLN's and his last TED book 'Why School' is a must read. Here he talks through the whole topic as well as big picture issues. Focused on education and good practice. Love the way he thinks and explains. Worth a follow think he is @willrich45

Thank you for the post, It was very insightful. I like how he compares a PLN to your own bigger brain, or something along those lines. I think this is a great way to think of a PLN. There is so much information out there one person can't possibly conceptualize it all, so we create PLNs a system of more brains to consult whenever we have problems or questions.

Richardson summarizes the importance and components of PLNs for educators and students. He summarizes that PLNs are networks of like-minded people that act as a network that converse and brainstorm answers to questions. Richardson notes that PLNs act as powerful sources of professional development for teachers. He discusses the current state of PLNs in our students' lives and how they are creating their own connections through various social media platforms. Finally, he relays the responsibility of teachers to inform themselves about PLNs in order to properly and safely guide our students through the use of PLNs.

This article looked at a Web-based survey and its results in order to make a correlation between gratifications and uses of social networking sites (SNSs) and an individual's political and civic engagement in the real world. This survey targeted the Facebook Groups application to look at how participation compared to offline activities, mainly due to this feature's ability to recruit members, share common issues, and organize off-campus events. The survey identified four main needs for Facebook Groups involvement: 1) socializing, 2) entertainment, 3) self-status seeking, and 4) information. However, as this survey was trying to draw links between online and offline involvement, the need for information was recognized as having the most impact on participation in real-world activities.

This is an odd resource for this diigo, but you can find lesson plans here and post lessons... while making money :-)

TeachersPayTeachers.com -- 1,000,000+ free and priced teaching resources created by teachers for instant download including lesson plans and unit plans. This is truly my favorite teaching website. There are so many incredible resources that I find here with regards to any subject and grade level. Many activities that I find here are very unique and detailed!