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"Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. "

This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others. The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site and inserts it directly into your creative work.To learn more about Creative Commons, please visit its web site, www.creativecommons.org. To learn more about the choices among the Creative Commons licenses, see http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses.

TIES offers an extensive array of instruction and technology workshops designed to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms and enhance their professional development.

There are many handheld devices and digital "gadgets" available to support all types of new teaching and learning initiatives. This pages will provide links to some of the resource pages specifically designed to enhance the use of these devices in the K-12 classroom. From Kathy Schrock

"Teach more effectively. SoapBox is a controlled digital space, designed to improve student engagement by breaking down the barriers students face when deciding whether or not to participate in class, and gives teachers a concrete assessment of student comprehension, in real time."

"These activities are designed so that all educators can find something that interests them irrespective of their computer experience. You will notice that there is a range of scenarios. Look through the list and start with the one that interests you the most. At the end of each activity you will notice that there are further scenarios related to the one you have just completed as well as links to skills at a higher level of difficulty."

"sales touted to overtake that of notebook PCs with an estimated volume of 240 million units sold worldwide by end of 2013. Needless to say, tablets are now an integral part of eLearning in enterprises both large and small. However, designing and developing courseware for these still remain a challenge for most organizations. Download our ebook, 'eLearning On Tablets - Getting It Right, to find a solution to this and any other challenge that you may have pertaining to eLearning on tablets."

"This lively, interactive, 5 module course has been designed for educators who would like to learn new ways to become even more effective when implementing technology into their classroom and teaching practice. Each research-based module, which will take about an hour to complete, contains a rich variety of multimedia learning activities and resources including videos, surveys and links to additional readings. You'll see and hear teachers in action, listen to their ideas, learn tips, tools and classroom-ready strategies that will help you maximize learning outcomes and expand your knowledge of how to use technology to support instructional frameworks."

Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards. We partner with corporations, universities, and school systems throughout the United States, which help us research, design, and test our activities every step of the way. Not only do teachers and students appreciate our free activities, Edheads has been recognized by almost every major award on the Web for our excellent educational content

"Teach your Monster to Read is a series of free games to practise the first stages of reading. Combining top quality games design with essential learning, the game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds programme."

"The Ed Tech Developer's Guide: A Primer for Developers, Startups and Entrepreneurs is a free guide that addresses key questions about the education ecosystem and highlights critical needs and opportunities to develop digital tools and apps for learning.  Written with input from knowledgeable educators, developers, and researchers who were willing to share what they have learned, the guide is designed to help entrepreneurs apply technology in smart ways to solve persistent problems in education."

Do Now is a new series of activities for middle and high school teachers designed to engage students to respond to current issues through the use KQED's award-winning online media resources and social media tools like Twitter.

This wiki is designed to be a "toolkit" of online information and resources for educators. It is also an ongoing development project for the FTCC EDU271 Educational Technology courses.

"The DIY Toolkit has been especially designed for development practitioners to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results."

"Instructional Design, eLearning & Social Media ) Curated by: Maria Constanza"

"This is a collaborative board designed to share the best and brightest original blog posts on related educational technology topics from EdTech Bloggers across the globe. This board is for educators PK-12. The goal of this board is create a collective feed of edtech blog resources for educators."

"An evolution on the idea of MOOCs is the "selectively open online course" (or SOOC) - simply, a MOOC with an entrance requirement designed to reduce the "unwanted diversity." This could be proven competency (e.g., pass an entrance quiz), a credential (e.g., have a degree), or membership (e.g., be in the university's alumni network). The theory is that a more uniform student body will lead to improved peer-to-peer collaboration and higher learner outcomes."

"Inklewriter is a great digital tool that lets students (and teachers if you are so inclined) write and publish interactive stories. Inklewriter lets students create choose-your-own-adventure type stories, story lines can come with choices and then be linked back together. Inklewriter makes this process easier by keeping track of which story paths have been finished and which still need work. There is no set-up required, no programming language to learn and no diagrams. Inklewriter is free to use and easy to share with the world when it is published. When a story is finished, it can even be converted to Kindle format!"