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"Improve Behavior Improve specific student behaviors and engagement by awarding and recording real-time feedback.  Share Data Print or email beautiful behavior reports to easily engage parents and staff. Save Time Save time by recording behaviors and accomplishments right in class, with just one click: NO extra data entry required."

"Engage the class using any device Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."

When we heard the buzz surrounding the new role video games are playing in education, we had to throw our hat in the ring. Today, innovative educators are finding ways to incorporate Portal™ and Portal 2 into their classrooms-helping teach physics and critical-thinking skills. It's eye-opening to see how video games can be used in amazing and unexpected ways to help educate our next generation. In response we've created Teach with Portals and there you'll find the beginnings of an engaging set of lesson plans, created by teachers, using the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker. Teachers sign up for the Education Beta and get access to Portal 2 and the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker and a teacher-created collection of puzzles for as many students as they'd like - for free. Using interactive tools like the Puzzle Maker to draw students in makes physics, math, logic, spatial reasoning, probability, and problem-solving interesting, cool and fun, which gets us one step closer to our goal - engaged, thoughtful kids!

Wiecking, HPA's energy lab director, said getting students away from games like Angry Birds and engaged in educational projects on their iPads isn't always easy. Getting there requires a teacher who is committed to using the devices as interactive educational tools for collaboration, research, and communication. "It's about students being engaged and on task," said Wiecking. "Simply purchasing the tools and handing them out is a lazy approach that doesn't work."

"Here are some great tips for making your lesson plans more entertaining, engaging, and relevant to students growing up in this digital age:"

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.

With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

CoursePeer provides instructors and teaching assistants with a suite of interactive Web 2.0 tools to convert their classes into trusted hubs for learning communities. This enables students to study and engage with each other while building their career portfolios. CoursePeer is FREE for instructors and students. 

Unlock creativity with our free Mind Maps. Easy to use maps allow you the freedom to express ideas intuitively and quickly. Learning becomes fun and engaging with Flashcards. Study information & quickly test your knowledge in a fun way. Increase your motivation with ExamTime. Set goals and review progress with your study timeline.

"Leadership is key to the use of innovative tools and the successful integration of digital aged literacy as mainstream in district K-12 education rather than just in isolated classrooms. Modeling use of Web 2.0 technologies and resolving policy issues hampering best practice use of digital media is a critical challenge for district level administrators. Transformative Leadership with Web 2.0 is an assessment tool for school leaders to help identify level of engagement in becoming a Transformative Leader with Web 2.0. "

"Reports continue to be disseminated about how young people are using technology. These devices, tools, and strategies can be integrated into existing lessons to enhance the learning activities and create more engagement, excitement, and possibly some passion among the students."

Modern public speakers and college lecturers are sometimes bedeviled by comments and chatter posted on Twitter while they are speaking. Now speakers can engage in the conversation even while they are standing at the podium with a new, free iPad app called Backdraft.

"The easiest way to engage your students with videos"

Here is what we will discover: How to use Google Spreadsheet to facilitate real time collaboration and easy sharing How to use Google Spreadsheet to quickly build resources for your lessons How to use Google Spreadsheet to insert interactive Gadgets How to use Google Spreadsheet to design charts that will have your students going 'wow' How to make self-grading assessments Your questions answered

Why use only one app at a time for lessons? In this webinar, we will show you how to use a range of apps, from Safari through to Skitch and iMovie. We will explain how to join the dots and build great classroom activities by creating and gathering content, and moving it between apps for a great end result. The principles, workflow, and concepts covered can be applied to all learning levels and subjects. We will show how to produce engaging lesson activities and project-based works that draw on the strengths of the iPad and a wide variety of skills.

"Spice up your presentations with these five cool web 2.0 tools. From meetings with your faculty to engaging classroom lessons, express your creativity with these presentation alternatives. In today's fast-paced, media-driven world, the traditional slide-by-slide presentation will not hold the interest of your audience. That's where this collection of tools comes in."