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Great list of Twitter tips for teachers trying to get started on Twitter.  Also, easily customizable to teach our students about Tweeting.

List of resources for teachers on Facebook.  Students could benefit from some of these, as well, as lessons in digital citizenship.

One district's stories of trading out textbooks & chalkboards for laptops

Fascinating Evolution of Classroom Technology over at Edudemic (hat tip Stephen Downes.) Look at how many of these technologies are still here in some forms. All I can think as I read about halfway down is the ah so lovely smell of that mimeograph paper!`

Fascinating read on the evolution of classroom technology.

Connect classrooms, teachers, administrators...online collaboration - all features are included.

Must read about considerations for the future directions of our schools and developing the 21st Century learner.

List of links and shortcuts for working/playing with the various functions and features of Google+

Interesting article found on Google+ via @markwagner

Compares Google+ and Facebook.

To use or not to use in schools? The +'s and -'s of Google+ integration into Google Apps for EDU

Free comic book about copyright that teaches you everything you need to know. You can even remix it. There are multiple translations as well (and you can buy a hard copy.) Awesome tool to use.

Great ideas for changing pedagogy. 

A long-standing educational philosophy is under attack as a new research report downplays the importance of different learning styles.

An interesting contribution by psychologists to a field usually left to educational researchers. Given how dominant the belief in 'learning styles' has become in education it is quite troubling.

"Ainsworth, Prain and Tyler  (2011) in a paper in Science argue that  drawing  can play a number of  important roles in learning:, namely: Drawing to enhance engagement - surveys have shown than when students draw to explain they are more motivated to learn compared to traditional teaching of science. Drawing to learn to represent in science - the process of producing visual representations  helps learners understand how scientific representations work. Drawing to reason in science - student learn to reason like scientists as they select specific features to focus on in their drawings, aligning it with observation, measurement and/or emerging ideas Drawing as a learning strategy - if learners read a text and then draw it, the process of making their understanding visible and explicit helps them to overcome limitations in presented material, organise and integrate their knowledge and ultimately can be transformative. Drawing to communicate - discussing their drawings with their students provides teachers with windows into students' thinking as well being a way that the peers can share knowledge, discovery and understanding."

Many are getting growth mindset wrong.

We want to reach EVERY child and differentiate instruction. This fantastic list from Edutopia gives us lots of impactful articles to help us learn more about reaching every child. Great summer reading list.

A fun tool to use for introductions. You post a video question and students can post their own videos as well. You can moderate and have the flipgrids be public or private. What a fun tool to use to start the year or even have introductions before you start.