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Blendspace allows educators to blend their classroom with digital content.

An article that addresses some of the flaws with rubrics.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Unfortunately this site is only free for 14 day trial. The minimum price is $9.00/month. The cool about this site is that you can create animation. It is an animation site to create movie, stories. It is simple to use by dragging the cartoon from the tool box. this can be used with students to create digital stories.

Create animated videos and presentations in the classroom. This is great for digital storytelling.

PowToon is an online business presentation software tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated video explainers as an alternative to using powerpoint

Chicago Public Schools - Rubric Bank Rubrics for ALL disciplines

Great website if you need help with rubrics. It also includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards.

Assessment of student mastery of content takes many forms. This pages includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. It also contains some information on the creation of rubrics and assessment in general.

Free for educators

ExitTicket is a student response system, designed by teachers to achieve one simple idea: Accelerate student achievement. I haven't used this before, but came across it and thought it may be useful to share.

Great site to make timelines. It is easy to use, and you can create basic timelines for free and share them.

Awesome timeline website!

Soundzabound Music Library offers a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 and universities that ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!

Interesting Template for use with Project Based Learning

I have identified thirteen literacies important for students to master, which you can see below. This is the second in a series. Last month I discussed financial literacy. The topic for this month is visual literacy.

This site discusses the app Explain Everything, which I used to make my first digital storytelling presentation. It is great for a little bit of screen casting on a tablet. The app lets you export as a video as well.

This site offers free, online lesson plans and other teaching resources.

Troubleshooting solutions for teachers and students

Research on best practices of technology use in gifted education by Sita Periathiruvadi and Anne N. Rinn

From the iPhone to the Garmin, advancements and gadgets introduced this decade changed the whole world. They've affected how we live, do business, acquire information, and connect with others. We've gotten used to touch-screens, blazingly fast Internet, and the ability to have the world at our fingertips in seconds.

Interesting..but I think a little controversial.

Kelly Kusterman's About Me page!

An interactive teaching math approach. Utilizes different modes of teaching.

This is a site I have used last year and will start very soon using with my students. There are excellent online simulations for math and science students with comprehensive lesson pages for teachers and students. There is a 30-day free trial as well...