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Meet reading standards using this site and engage students with current events. Includes the ability to adjust reading level and assessing students comprehension with writing and multiple choices quizzes. Great resource.

I would add, that these tips work for 1:1 coaching, as well.

Some neat tools for annotating Youtube videos and assessing student understanding/learning during and after the video.

Lots of links for finding support for innovative professional learning.

Interesting ideas, and excellent how-tos

Google Drive cheat sheet - excellent resource 8-2-14

Add yourself into your PPT presentation, MS Word, etc. and bring life to your presentations. Free app that runs on the Windows OS and requires a webcam.

Kyle Pace gives some good instructions and considerations for YouTube settings you should be aware of as a student/teacher.

Tony Vincent shares 10 effective ways to displays the iPad on a projector and has a handy chart shows/compares different methods.

Alice Keeler gives some helpful suggestions on naming conventions in Google Classroom.

Almost 60,000 free pieces of clipart

"Use "Fakebook" to chart the plot of a book, the development of a character, a series of historical events, the debates and relationships between people, and so on!" Students and teachers create imaginary profile pages.

So many great points by veteran teachers - one with over 50 years of teaching experience - on what makes a great teacher - not just the quality, but the process of becoming/sustaining excellence in teaching

"At the end of the day, the questions we ask ourselves determine the type of people we become." As we look to guide students and mentor/encourage other professionals, we have to get honest with ourselves and do some personal reflection. These questions challenged me to rethink some things for sure. "

Includes a great section on Green Screen movie making, along with other great STEM curriculum resources.

Tony Vincent shares a powerful infographic that may just help you mobilize for greater productivity. Check it out!

"Poetica is a neat new service for collaborative editing of documents. The best feature of Poetica is its similarity to writing on a paper document. While reading a document you can click on any word or space between words to insert a line drawn to the margin where you write your comment. Clicking on a word or space also allows you to simply insert a suggested word above the line. If you want to suggest a change for an entire sentence you can highlight it and insert a drawn line to the margins where you can write your suggestions. Your suggestions are written in blue while your corrections are written in red." Supports imports of .docs, .pdfs, .rtf files.- definitely want to use this as a tool with Chromebooks

"Will you ever just walk into class and ask, "Okay, what do you want to study today?" Of course not. Inquiry-based learning is founded on students taking the lead in their own learning, but it still requires considerable planning on your part. Projects must fit into your larger program structure, goals and plans, but the students will be actively involved in planning the projects with you and asking the questions that launch their individual inquiries." In thinking about PBL and other inquiry-based learning, this post and the graphic of the inquiry process are easy to connect with.

Wesley Fryer shares how he set up a Green Screen station and the pictures they took at a Fall Festival. Obviously, his idea could be used for a variety of applications.

"The BBC Flew a Drone Over Auschwitz - And the Result Is Haunting" - so many ways this could be used to evoke create responses from students - poetry, reflections, compare/contrast, etc.