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"Aurasma is one of the most popular and cutting-edge technologies being used in schools around the world today. Enabling teachers to connect digital content such as video to images in books and classroom walls, Aurasma offers a uniquely inventive, fun, and holistic way of engaging students of all ages.  This post is designed for school teachers and covers all the relevant issues around using Aurasma in your school."

Graphite's list of the best summer apps for kids and their parents. Recs are based on teacher evaluations and rated by "learning rating" and "teacher rating." Geared toward lower elementary students.

I teach Spanish, and this is a great resource for finding songs that are sung around the world. They are organized by country.

"Keep up-to-date with what's movin' and shakin' on the App Store with this list of the Top 50 most downloaded completely FREE apps (with no in-app purchases) available on iTunes as of May 19, 2014. You will find apps for babies, preschoolers, toddlers, students, educators and therapists - that covers 99.9% of our readers, so what are you waiting for?"

A overview of a tech-phobic Kindergarten teacher using Twitter with great success. A great example of social media & technology in the lower grades as well as the ability for teachers to learn when they are willing to try something new...

This gives you a very long list of accessible and free resources for NYC children and families which contain details for food and fitness activities, health and affordability, farm visits, green and markets. Most are free or at low cost. It is a great resource for parents to refer to.

"This blog discusses various uses of technology in the classroom. Many of the bloggers are educators in technology or creators of technology based learning experiences."

"Augmented reality allows someone to add another layer to an existing image.  For example, imagine holding your phone over a poster on the wall as if you were going to take a photo of that poster, and then instantly a video starts playing to offer you additional information about that particular poster.  Pretty cool, right?  The first time it happens, it seems like magic."

must subscribe (schools can buy school-wide subscription) interactive learning and videos for math, language, science, social studies, etc. kids love the videos: age appropriate and funny

This is one of my favorite teaching tools. It has short (5 minute) cartoons that are appropriate for K-3rd grade. The language they use and level of information is amazing. Subsciption needed.

"Aurasma is a free app that is similar to QR codes except the QR code part can be any image instead of a code. What that means is you can set the "trigger" to be just about any image you want"

"This is the place to share plans, ideas, tools, frustrations and any other ideas related to teaching and using technology.The site contains robust community forums, and the blogs, rather than being written by a single author, are written by a number of authors, which exposes readers to a wider variety of current issues and ideas in classroom technology."

"Aurasma provides an image-recognition software for creating and sharing augmented reality experiences. Users pan with their mobile device cameras to scan images in their physical environment to trigger a separate image or video to play on their screens."

A good collection of links that are all related to children and technology

These are stories told entirely in Spanish - children may not understand all the words, but it is a fun immersive activity.