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5 mistakes schools make with iPad.1) Focusing on content apps2) Lack of Teacher Preparation in Classroom Management of iPads3) Treating the iPad as a computer and expecting it to serve as a laptop.4) Treating iPads like multi-user devices5) Failure to communicate a compelling answer to "Why iPads?"

Original Daily 5 site. Great Free Resources to implement Daily 5 From the beginning.

This years top 5 trends in ed tech

Kidspiration provides a cross-curricular visual workspace for K-5 learners. Students combine pictures, text, numbers and spoken words to develop vocabulary, word recognition, reading for comprehension, writing and critical thinking skills.

This site has how to videos for many of the sites I have seen mentioned. There are 5-min clips of how to set up and use the different applications that we find on the web but don't necessarily know how to get started on. I watched a couple of these, but especially liked the one about KidBlog and Animoto.

Poster to print for daily 5 classroom.

Great website for k-5 resources: math games and activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

Found through twitter, this tweet shared by twitter-user "Nimfetta" links to an article on busyteacher.org regarding some amazing tips on writing successful lesson plans. How to Write a Lesson Plan: 5 Secrets of Writing Great Lesson Plans http://busyteacher.org/3753-how-to-write-a-lesson-plan-5-secrets.html ... via @busyteacher_org

A great place for multiple subjects K-5

S. Downes. EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 39, No. 5. (September 2004), pp. 14-26. "I think it's the most beautiful tool of the world and it allows us the most magic thing."-Florence Dassylva-Simard, fifth-grade studentThe bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Some take their chairs in the more traditional classroom on the lower floor. Others attend to their projects in the large, open activity room upstairs, pausing perhaps to study one of the chess games hanging on the wall before meeting in groups to plan the current project. A third group steps up a half flight of stairs into the small narrow room at the front of the building, one wall lined with pictures and plastercine models of imagined aliens, the other with a bank of Apple computers. blogging education internet lit-review weblog

S. Downes. EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 39, No. 5. (September 2004), pp. 14-26. "I think it's the most beautiful tool of the world and it allows us the most magic thing."-Florence Dassylva-Simard, fifth-grade studentThe bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Some take their chairs in the more traditional classroom on the lower floor. Others attend to their projects in the large, open activity room upstairs, pausing perhaps to study one of the chess games hanging on the wall before meeting in groups to plan the current project. A third group steps up a half flight of stairs into the small narrow room at the front of the building, one wall lined with pictures and plastercine models of imagined aliens, the other with a bank of Apple computers. blogging education internet lit-review weblog

This free website allow you to create collaborative stories with your students. The stories can be view and published. Students can vote for the stories they like. Stories are created in groups of 5.

Great math resource page with student samples and journal ideas!

Free materials to brush up on K-5 reading standards

If you are not sure where to start in Social Media here is a great place to get some ideas

Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ K-5 Math aligned to the Common Core Standards empowers students to master key math concepts

Develop a deep understanding of mathematics. This user-friendly resource presents grades 3-5 teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction. Focus on an understanding of and procedural fluency with multiplication and division.

As a teacher I know Social Studies is sometime pushed to the wayside. I can appreciate a website with ready resources.