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Another resource for supporting student reflection.

TPACK Resources

an emerging resource from one of the leading experts on math education, Jo Boaler, professor at Stanford University. If we want change in terms of math achievement in education, this is a great place to start.

"NOAA View is a new project from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. On NOAA View you can explore visualizations of data sets in the categories of Ocean, Land, Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate. Each category has multiple subsets of data from which to choose. The data sets can be displayed in weekly, monthly, and yearly units. A basic explanation of each data set is available." Resource for discussing climate and weather.

Collection of online geography games.

"More About Glenn Work with Glenn Presentations / Resources Social Studies Central Podcasts Writing Navigator: Supports literacy standards, makes your life easier, free"

"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.

Could be a cool way to motivate kids to start writing... I see an alternate assignment linking social media and their writing. 

links to 75 different twitter forms- some interesting ideas 

Found this whole page of videos from the Virginia Historical Society on Vimeo.

Graphite site offers Reviews and Ratings for educational websites, games, and apps. Can search by Subject and Grade.

Writing Next - effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high schools

Free professional publication resources here to inform practice.

"Can we use primary sources and technology to promote civic engagement? Richard Hartshorne and Scott Waring of University of Central Florida say yes. They shared a great set of resources to help you structure your use of technology in the classroom.  They didn't really share specific examples about civic engagement activities with these tools - mostly a review of the different tools - but they do have one lesson idea online." Various thoughts on how to use technology in a history classroom.

This is another alternative to Socrative or ActivEngage.

"The following digital tools show promise to support word learning, review, and play with language. I've grouped them into four categories: Reference Tools, Word Clouds, Games and Review, Word Walls and Virtual Field Trips. "

"When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a million more viruses." Interesting video/animation on how we get the flu. Could be an interesting resource in a unit or lesson on viruses.

A dictionary, thesaurus, and valuable tool for matching thoughts to words like never before.