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Excellent tips on working with students in a 1:1 classroom when they are working on projects.

I'd like to dispel myths about 1:1 environments. My assertions are not based on opinion, but on evidence directly observed in secondary classrooms at Burlington High School and from the students that traverse these halls daily.

Jeff Mao has forged a first-of-its-kind partnership with Common Sense Media to adopt their Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum. The curriculum helps teachers, administrators, and parents guide students to navigate the tricky of waters of life online.

ThingLink is a simple piece of code that users can install on their website or blog. This code allows teachers or students to designate parts of sites or pages (pictures, etc.) that will produce a pop-up with a description and or a link to something else on the web.

"Frequently this conversation focuses on the most effective hardware for teaching and learning. While this is an important decision to make, it should not be the focus. In fact, the best devices a school can employ are great teachers."

"How it Works 1. Create an Assignment; 2. Create an Assignment; 3. Assign to Students; 4. Receive Live Results; 5. Give Feedback Formative runs on any internet connected device and is optimized for any 1:1, BYOD, flipped or blended classroom."

Free Collection of Royalty Free Music available for download, composed and performed by Geoff Harvey and Chris Martyn Music can be used free of charge for web-based projects e.g. YouTube (see 'Using Our Music' for more info) in exchange for a link to our site. Donations are welcome! We specialize in music production and sound services for games, multimedia, TV and film. Specialists in Surround Sound 5.1 production Large additional track catalogue of horror pieces and background music available for licensing.

A science teacher trying to incorporate technology into her classroom feels resistance from parents...interesting read.

Epic-ed supports individuals, schools, and districts who are planning for and implementing ubiquitous computing environments.

What I can do with DebateGraph...? 1. Facilitate group dialogue - and augment individual intelligence 2. Clarify a key argument 3. Deliberate together, decide, and manage the tasks arising 4. Collaborative learning and teaching 5. Conference reporting and engagement

"Want to Make Your Own Set of Flashcards? Step 1: Modify the Google Spreadsheet Template Copy this template into your Gmail or Google Apps account. Enter as many terms as you want. Name your set of flashcards by changing the name of the worksheet (at the bottom)."

"What any web-enabled device allows us to do in the classroom is build upon the convergence of powerful hardware and dynamic teaching. Teachers need to begin seeing the new tools as supplements to what they're already doing really well."

"Otus is an easy-to-use, yet powerful classroom tool that brings the best iPad and Chromebook education features together into one secure environment, and uses a single login." Not only for the iPad...works well with our PLDs. Has easy interface and is easier to use than Moodle and more features than Google Classroom.

"ExitTicket is a student response system, designed by teachers to achieve one simple idea: Accelerate student achievement" This is a very powerful tool for PrimeTime 1 and PrimeTime 2 and during your class periods.

"Draftback is a Chrome extension that indexes the revision history of a document then allows you to watch a video of the doc being created.  You can watch as a document goes from a blank page to the final version that was submitted for a grade.  This is helpful on two fronts: 1. Clicking the document graph and statistics will show you exactly how much time each student spent creating the file.  This makes it very easy to see who participated in a group assignment. 2. Think a student plagiarized something?  You can watch to see if large portions of text were pasted onto the document from an outside source.  This is a great way to keep the student's honest."

Analyzing Documents Teach students the process of document analysis, the foundation for working with primary sources: 1. Meet the document. 2. Observe its parts. 3. Try to make sense of it. 4. Use it as historical evidence. Learning Objectives: Think through primary source documents (photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, or sound recordings) for contextual understanding. Extract information to make informed judgments. Internalize the process of analyzing primary source documents."

Starting a game is fast, easy, and doesn't require registration! This is the first draft (beta 1.0) of our website which we hope will be a fun, communal way to learn geography and other interesting trivia. The site was started by Jeff Borland, a teacher in Portland, Maine and one of his former students, Orkhan Nadirli. We believe that students need to know much more about the world and we thought that this game format would be a wonderful way to do that. In the coming months we hope to add lots of new features (like the ability to create your own trivia sets), so keep checking back.

"How many times have you wondered about a better way to teach the same lesson you have delivered to an eariler class? How often have you used technology to engage your students and improve their learning ? These are some recurring questions we keep regurgitating each time our teaching skills are put to the test."

Relevant article on engaging students in your classroom with or without technology.

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