Students create their own clay avatar. They can name themselves, create a script - great for a formative assessment to see if they know the parts of speech. Lots of uses here.
Holy Cow! How did I not know about backpack.tv???? It has great videos for education with embed codes and probably isn't blocked by our filter! Check it out!
Free, safe, easy text messaging service for parents and students. Not sure what the district policy will be on these types of services (have an inservice on Aug 14 - will post an update after that).
We've all been confused by text lingo at some point or another. Here is a list, a dictionary if you will, of the chat acronyms and text message shorthands. The list is updated regularly so you'll never have need to be confused again.
You might have heard me mention Google Forms at a Technology Shoot Out but did you know Google Docs does templates, too? Check out this link with some pretty sweet pre-made Google Forms you can use to gather information in a meaningful way.