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What are the essential tools to help the connected Generation C be successful? I bounce around the idea that in fact it may not be technology at all - rather, the vision of the integration of the new essential tools that promote connectivity. Perhaps the new educator mindset should really focus on the ability to re-tool the cognitive skills of Generation C to promote higher level thinking.

Pinball is a suite of fun tools from the BBC for organizing ideas and generating new ideas. In Pinball you will find tools for creating mindmaps, outlines, and simple slideshows. Pinball also has tools to help you brainstorm and generate new ideas. Each one of the six Pinball tools provides options for including text and images in your mindmaps, outlines, and slideshows. 

"Technology in education isn't just for older students. There are a ton of resources out there for early childhood educators and their students, and many young children are already able to use the technology available to them. They're even calling today's preschoolers "Generation C", aka the connected generation."

Input a series of questions and answers into a easy-to-use form. It will generate a QR code for each question. Put the QR codes around your school. Students find and answer the questions.

Snap.vu is a free QR code generator, short URL and tracking service for marketing/promotional campaigns and personal use. Here's how it works...

"Testmoz is a test generator that sports 4 question types, automatic grading, a really simple interface and detailed reports. It is free, and does not require you (or your students) to register. You can build a fully functional test in about a minute, so why don't you give it a try and generate a test?"

"BlogBooker produces a high-quality PDF Blog Book from all your blog's entries and comments. Archives can be generated from any blog running on WordPress, LiveJournal (and derivatives) or Blogger. The whole process takes about 3-4 minutes, depending on the size of your blog."

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!

Taxedo is really brilliant wordcloud generator and you an do funky wordclouds in all inds of shapes. also like the fact that you can exclude the non essentia words with the click of a button

Another reat way to keep track of the best tweets in your network

"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."

Enter some text or a URL in a spreadsheet and a QR code will be automatically created - all with the help of a little formula that you'll learn about in this tip of the week.