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""What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows." ― Paulo Coelho."

Don't know if anyone else has this this, but it looks interesting. You can request the resources to be shared with you - I did for Moody. I will check out the resources when I have a chance and share what I find.

List of Tech Tools

"Function Carnival changes that. Students watch a video. They try to graph what they see. Then they play back the video and see how their graphical model would be represented as an animation. Does what they meant to graph about the world actually match the world?" This is an explanation of a new online math tool called "Function Carnival." The link to the tool is in the opening paragraph. Further explanation of the tool can be found here: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=18420

Why technology matters for out students. May be useful for a faculty meeting, PD session, etc.

"Should schools be mirrors of society, or should they be places apart? With Greenfield, I come down for the latter. Schools have an opportunity to take students' minds in new directions, and they've only got 1,000 hours each year to do it.  " Interesting read. Yes, time is limited, but appropriate use of technology can help to "take students' minds in new directions," often in directions that might not be possible without the use of technology.

"This resonates strongly. I shared a lesson with fellow teachers, and realized I had no good way to communicate what actually made the lesson powerful, and how charging in with the usual assumptions of being the explainer in chief could totally ruin it." Couldn't say it any better than this...Personally, this is one of the reasons I've tried to get video of classroom action and student reflections over the past several years for H21. We can write all we want about what makes a lesson powerful, but it's much more obvious and useful when we see it/hear it ourselves.