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From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's "7 Things You Should Know About..." series, which provides concise information on emerging technologies and practices. "...badges offer an opportunity to reevaluate credentials, expanding their role by making otherwise hidden accomplishments visible."

An award-winning educator and author offers advice for students and teachers everywhere to avoid being a "talking head" during presentations and instead engage and invigorate their target audience.

An award-winning educator and author offers advice for students and teachers everywhere to avoid being a "talking head" during presentations and instead engage and invigorate their target audience.

iTunes Store Link: Silent Film Director (iPhone, iPod, and iPad) If you love creating movies with your students, the Silent Film Director app is just the app to spice up your movie making with your students. This is an incredible creative app that guides you to make amazing silent films in just minutes.

This may help with making your rubric for digital storytelling

DOE blog called Homeroom, especially great for making sense of current Educational Policy decisions.

This research article provides an overview of how transformative learning experiences can be created through instructional design.  The aim is to use instruction to make learning more experiential, personally relevant and transformative to students.  The authors explain a framework for providing transformative learning experiences, including several indicators that fall into the categories of developing personal meaning, competence with the subject and relationships.  The authors also present guidelines for designing these experiences, including applying design fundamentals, crafting the learning experience and teaching and facilitating to inspire learning. A quick, but worth while read! Wilson, B. G., & Parrish, P. (2011). Transformative learning experience: Aim higher, gain more. Educational Technology, 51 (2), 10-15.

One of my favorite sites. It has lots of pre-made games that help teach different math concepts. The best thing about the site is it allows you make your own games of all different thttp://resources.oswego.org/games/#ypes.

This site provides links to multiple sites that have interactive assignments and games for all different grade and skill level.

Math Machine Archive: Math Games The Math Machine brings you a great collection of math games that you can share with your students. Here in The Math Machine you will find links to more than 50 online games that will help you teach and reinforce important math skills. Search the list below for games you might use with your whole class in your schools computer lab, or you might schedule students to use these games on computers in your classroom computer center. These games make great reward time activities too.

Video demos and tutorials on how to use Google Apps. *Google Video (video yourself instead of the usual email, record workshops for teachers who can't make it, record messages for students working on differentiated projects, have students use for class projects), make a class website with Google Sites, and see how to use Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and more!

Grab all or part of a web page or upload a file--text or image--select various sections, make comments, and share with colleagues through Twitter or Facebook. Very easy to use.

Online pinboard site that can be used to organize different topics.  Can be great for getting ideas for lesson/unit planning.

Thanks, Amy! I just started using Pinterest for teaching ideas. I saw an awesome Tiki-Hut U-table! Makes me think to make my guided reading and math groups a lot more fun! I love how pinterest has the pictures.

Information about digital resources you can use to help make history come alive in your classroom. Check out the dipity sample of a presidential timeline - very cool!

The program must be downloaded to your word program. Great resource for making puzzles, BINGO cards and much more. Daily 5, "Word Work" with sight words.

Blog offers ideas on how you can integrate technology using devices you may already in a creative way to make up for the lack of classroom resources.

Edit existing videos from Khan Academy, YouTube, LearnZillion and EDpuzzle to make them just right for your class. Crop, add your voice, insert video notes and quizzes. Useful for flipped classrooms.

Free quiz making tool. Lots of different "star tools" are available from ALTEC.

Be creative, help people and make dreams come true with engineering. Play games, watch full episodes and video clips, design new inventions and share them in this social community. Try engineering and science activities or compete in contests on DESIGN SQUAD NATION's educational website for kids. Read a blog from real engineers.