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Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum for Grades 9-12

Dean Shareski has done an outstanding job at creating a college level distance-learning course including many people around the world. See his honest reflections and statements about what his take on the class was. I applaud Dean for transparency and was very impressed with his set up and work.

Dean Shareski's self evaluation of his online course for pre-service teachers -- an excellent overview of the cutting edge.

A viewer for microsoft office docs that works with evernote on the android platform. Evernote has a ton of android apps that are being released from third party developers.

Play a memory game with your evernote notes on your ipod touch or iphone.

A long list of short n juicy professional development online courses to jump into next few months

Small Basic is a lighter version of Visual basic. Interesting site to start kids out programming from a problem solving perspective. Demo'ed at #140ed conference to show how programming is not boring for kids.

How to move toward being a school of the future

Cool virtual reality tool. I have one my sister gave me for Savannah college of Art and design that they did with the iPhone. It was incredible. Cardboard with a smartphone inserted. It uses the accelerometer inside to really make it feel 3d. It does. You can actually get kind of dizzy. From Richard Byrne's site. "Earlier this year Google unveiled a new virtual reality program for schools. The program is called Expeditions. Expeditions uses an app on the teacher's tablet in conjunction with the Cardboard viewer to guide students on virtual reality field trips. Today, Google announced that they are bringing Expedition demonstrations and the required kits to schools all over North America, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand."