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Thinkercad is a free open source web-based tool that allows users to learn to design the products of their life. Students will be able to easily design in 3D what they have always dreamed of, but never thought possible. Until now. This is a fantastic tool to introduce real-world fabrication skills that teach student that that they can learn by doing. Tinkercad also has a growing community that helps users learn how to create their first real things in just a few minutes. A great tool!

Graph Master is a one-of-a-kind program that allows students to create four different interacive, printable graphs on one screen based on data collected in a survey or poll of their classmates. What makes Graph Master so useful, however, is the fact that after students make their graphs, the program asks them eight multiple choice questions about their graphs using the inputted data and checks them for accuracy.

GCF Learn Free is an excellent new site for educational resources. This is a very innovative site that offers users over 750 online interactive lessons and over 250 videos. These lessons are fun to do and a user can customize how they want to learn a give topic.

Infogram is an amazing new web tool for creating infographics quickly and easily. The tool is very simple to use and offers a whole host of unique WYSIWYG editing options from dragging content around to in-tool data table formatting. This is sure to be a popular site as inforgraphics continue to grow in popularity. The site is free, robust, and going to be getting some more customized features and more templates soon. Looks like a great place for teachers and students to play with the art of visual explanation.

Virtual base ten blocks; Students are given a target number and drag base 10 blocks onto the paper to represent that number. As students add blocks, a counter at the bottom of the page shows how many blocks are currently on the paper. This is a great way for students to digitally practice place value, counting by hundreds, tens and ones.

BLOCKED at HCPS - Grrrrrr.... You go to this link, add a You Tube link, and it creates a NEW link that is "safe" to view (removes adds and just shows video). Would love to see this unblocked so teachers can have a "safe" way to show videos we cannot convert!!

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the best way to buy a verified CashApp account will vary depending on your specific needs and preferences. However, some tips on how to buy verified CashApp accounts include: doing your research ahead of time, finding a reputable seller, and being prepared to pay a bit more for a verified account. With that said, following these tips should help you find and purchase a verified Cash App account without any major issues.

A very easy to use site that lets users embed a poll directly into their blog/website.

Create a hashtag widget to embed in websites - step by step instructions through photos, not video. Remember your site needs to be public via link or full open.

Create a hashtag widget to embed in websites

Includes a video directed to what leaders can do to create a 21st century district.

This is a site for teachers and students that allows them to create a digital scrapbook which promotes creativity, self-expression, and imagination.

This seems like an easy assessment resource that might be good to use w/class sets of iPads.  Teachers can set up their answer sheet on the website, and then students enter a code and take the test on the iPad.  They can even use a work space to solve problems if needed.  

SOL:  Measurement - Meet Jack the builder.  He lives in a country that only uses the Metric System.  Can your students help Jack?  He gets terribly confused with measuring.  Begin with a discussion on the metric "Unit of Measurement" to help students understand the terminology.  When this is complete, students help Jack read the actual measurements in the activity.   Be careful though, this site uses the French language spelling since it is from Canada. 

A fun site to use for creating simple surveys that generates a unique URL

A great site w/ a wiki-style interface that allows users to create surveys w/ different styles of questions (multiple choice, true/false, etc.).

Teacher Direct is designed to establish a more direct line of communication with classroom teachers and educators. The goal of Teacher Direct is to provide a way to share new instructional resources created by VDOE staff as well as make teachers aware of professional development and grant opportunities, and other information of special interest to teachers and their students.

Three international organizations - the New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) - collaborate on identifying technology experts and other aspects of the research, and this year, for the first time, each organization is planning a significant event related to the new report for each of their audiences. The Horizon Report K-12 edition, issued annually since 2009, has identified and described emerging technologies that are having a significant impact on K-12 education, re-iterating the diversity of influences in the learning spaces of our schools. For school librarians the report directs attention simultaneously to both information use and learning and highlights the fact that 21st century technologies are unlikely to be empowering unless they are in the hands of an informed learner.

You can copy and paste a quiz you have made in a Word document and the site will convert it so you can upload it to Blackboard

A young, witty girl gives a TED talk about allowing kids to think for themselves and adults needing to support the creative ideas kids have.