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Collaborative assessment for teachers, uses common core or other state standards, able to track students and show progress

This website allows for online collaborative writing. This is great for group projects and also works with teacher collaboration too. The teacher can check in on a student's document throughout the process of writing and correct things online, and offer feedback. It also has a chat center so students in the document can communicate with one another.

An article I found interesting, especially since it had to do with our reading for this week.

Another great RSS feed I am following for first grade collaboration and ideas.  I especially like this because this teacher uses the same curriculum as I do.

Faces of Learning is a collaborative, solution-oriented site that seeks to answer the questions: What does an ideal learning environment look like? and How do we create more ideal learning environments? It is a blog as well and there are many shared stories of learning experiences. There is an interactive 'learner sketch' to determine your own (or a student's) strengths and weaknesses. You can record your own story too.

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share your creations with others in the online community. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively - essential skills for life in the 21st century.

Van notating web pages with diigo

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

This site--English pedagogy guru Jim Burke's ning--is a treasure trove for middle school and secondary English instructors. Joining requires verification of your relationship to a learning institution. The site is well organized, allowing me to browse by general topics and within forums. It's a virtual teacher's lounge, allowing for quick takes on strategies for teaching any number of things, or in depth discussion on the viability of Literature Circles for Shakespeare study. I could easily get lost in the forest of great ideas here.

Such a fun tool! It's a free and diverse visual drawing piece. If I were using this in the classroom, I might do it to create graphic organizers, which would be highly helpful! It also allows you to upload images, text and documents and mark them up with simple "paint" type tools. Very useful!