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Yes!  Creativity can be taught and assessed. 

Great resource for fluency

This site can be used to reinforce reading. It is able to provide individual libraries for each student. It can read to the student, highlighting the text in yellow, or have the student read it on their own. Also provides questions for comprehension on the text.

This author explains how ipads, laptops etc., can help students utilize note-taking to its highest potential, Supporting organizational strategies and cognition, Saving info, allowing Searching of collected info and Sharing of the same. These 4 S's can be powerful for learning.

Fascinating TED talk about learning

Resource list of web 2.0 tools.

"Web 2.0 is about revolutionary new ways of creating, collaborating, editing and sharing user-generated content online. It's also about ease of use. There's no need to download, and teachers and students can master many of these tools in minutes. Technology has never been easier or more accessible to all."

some great google drives apps that I can use to help me in teaching

Can be a great resource for LA, math, science social studies

The link Media-making rubric is an excellent rubric for evaluating student created videos and slideshows. You can open it in google drive and then save it.

I can see how this app can be useful for teachers. http://www.explaineverything.com/ibook--itunesu.html

Wow....very cool. Students at the high school can use these apps (like the marvel comics one) without having a graphic design background. Highly tech savvy students present amazing work, but it can leave students with disabilities behind. This is great! Thanks.

A presentation using Google Slides about ways you can use google in classroom.

Using written conversations to show learning - this can also be done with technology

Free practice questions on many topics. Teachers can create quizzes. Multiple choice.

The maker movement

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This is an awesome project!