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50 popular literacy, readaloud and articles sites like newsela.com (Newsela | Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events). Top 3 alternative sites are: http://nces.ed.gov/naal/, newsinlevels.com, dogonews.com.

Save web articles as PDF for reading later.

SoundGecko is a text-to-audio transcribing service that lets you enjoy written content from around the web on the go. Give your eyes a rest and listen to articles by simply sending an email or pressing a button in your browser.

Media and publishing professionals know that infographics are hugely popular, and are more likely to be shared via social media than a standard blog post or article.

Browse our free collection of news articles, poems, short stories, and historical documents for grades 5-12. Assign text-dependent questions to hold students accountable for high-level reading and writing. Analyze student performance and compare class reports on key reading and writing skills."

Interesting article on changing the technological landscape in the classroom through four different levels.

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

Teaching website promoting technology usage in the classroom. Great web links, articles, & forums.

I have found that many traditional methods of classroom management readily translate to a technologically rich curriculum - with some modification. Great article on making the most of your classroom layout with student devices.

A fun quiz site where the user must discover whether a published news article is fake or real. A great site for older students when teaching about vitality of sources.

"Insert a web address of a Wikimedia Commons image or a Wikipedia article to start the tool. Answer the questions about the intended use to create a correct license notice. Read how to use the license notice. Copy the generated license notice and insert it into your publication to use the image correctly."

"Read your video like read an article. We use smart technologies (NLP + AI) to create well-formatted interactive transcripts for your videos. Now you can read, search, share, and locate a sentence within any videos in seconds. Get started with a YouTube link below!"

YouTube provides an option for doing a review for AP courses. "How do I start streaming? To go live using Stream now, open your encoder and start streaming from youtube.com/live_dashboard. There is no start button in the live dashboard." Here is a link to a web article from Richard Byrne about a teacher using YouTube Live for an AP European History review: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/05/try-youtube-live-for-review-sessions.html#.WRmz7esrKM8

A brief description of what a flipped classroom is NOT and what one should look like.

"While faculty toil over getting that perfect lecture, the variation in learning outcomes from different lectures is negligible. So what did matter? Feedback. Feedback on student work has been consistently shown to be among the biggest influences on student achievement. Yet faculty usually give little thought to how they provide feedback to their students. Many go through a student's work, making margin comments such as "vague" or "grammar" or "needs synthesis.""

"A professional learning network is a vibrant, ever-changing group of connections to which teachers go to both share and learn. These groups reflect our values, passions, and areas of expertise. Teachers build PLNs the same way they build any network: by investing time to find and connect with people they trust, who have shared interests and passions. To me, a PLN includes the organizations, communities, and individuals who help me learn and grow as a professional. My PLN also provides me with a broader perspective on education-beyond my classroom, school building, state, and even nation. It is a blend of face-to-face and digital interactions with professional buddies, mentors, and rockstars."

I once heard class discussions described as "transient instructional events." They pass through the class, the course, and the educational experiences of students with few lingering effects. Ideas are batted around, often with forced participation; students don't take notes; and then the discussion ends-it runs out of steam or the class runs out of time. If asked a few days later about the exchange, most students would be hard-pressed to remember anything beyond what they themselves might have said, if that.

"Indeed, a host of national and regional surveys suggest that teachers are far more likely to use technology to make their own jobs easier and to supplement traditional instructional strategies than to put students in control of their own learning. Case study after case study describe a common pattern inside schools: A handful of "early adopters" embrace innovative uses of new technology, while their colleagues make incremental or no changes to what they already do."