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VoiceThread is an interactive tool that allows for the sharing of group conversations and discussions on a browser-based web application, without the use of software.

HTML Gear makes it easy to add and manage multiple widgets, including guestbooks, polls, feedback forms and more. Best of all it's FREE! Guest Gear Get comments from your visitors with our highly customizable guest book. Poll Gear Find out what your visitors think! Create colorful polls on the topics of your choice. Link Gear Manage links, count clicks, and let your visitors recommend sites. Feedback Gear Get feedback from your visitors without having to reveal your e-mail address. Event Gear Share dates and coordinate group events. Text Gear Put different words of wisdom, tips, factoids, or quotes on your page each time your page loads. Headline Gear Place current headlines from a variety of hot news categories on your site.

FillAnyPDF.com is a website where you upload your PDF form and link to it so other people can fill it out and sign it online. No software is needed. Any PDF form can be used, even if it's not "interactive", so you can get started right away. You can even invite a group to fill out your forms and track the results. Anyone that collects signatures or filled out forms will find FillAnyPDF.com to be a valuable time-saving resource.

"America's teaching corps is made up of three groups with distinct attitudes about their profession, which has implications for policymakers."

"Kevin Honeycutt watched as a group of students at the Turning Point Learning Center, a K-8 charter school in Emporia, KS, took turns with an iPad, rocking out on a virtual guitar as they rehearsed for an upcoming spring concert."

We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education. Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices. On the wiki side of this site are the deployment and management articles, and on the blog side, you will find the classroom activities (written primarily by teachers) where iPods are supporting achievement improvement for our students. We are posting as many help and how-to articles here as we can and as quickly as we can so you can continue to be successful using iPod devices in your classroom. Please let us know if there are more or different things that you would like to have included here.

In this clip, educators describe problem-based learning as a way for students to use technology, work together in groups, and learn to use unique tools. For example, students in the clip use handheld gaming systems to play word games. Several educators explain the many benefits to approaching teaching in this manner, such as helping students use technology in a fun way that stimulates the brain and enhances the learning experience.

Interesting research of how texting is used and impacts a variety of age groups.

What's Youth Voices All About? Youth Voices is a school-based social network that was started in 2003 by a group of National Writing Project teachers. We merged several earlier blogging projects. We have found that there are many advantages to bringing students together in one site that lives beyond any particular class. It's easier for individual students to read and write about their own passions, to connect with other students, comment on each others work, and create multimedia posts for each other. Further, it's been exciting for us to pool our knowledge about curriculum and digital literacies.

Check out Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and resources on cyberbullying, netiquette, and internet safety. Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup Check out Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and resources on cyberbullying, netiquette, and internet safety. By Edutopia Staff Facebook 1 Twitter 22 Share 34 Email Resources by Topic: Cyberbullying The Importance of Netiquette Internet Safety Teaching Bullying Prevention Discussion Groups Additional Resources on the Web

"iRead- Using iPods for Literacy By Tom | August 27, 2009 Here's a 10 minute video describing how one of our great elementary school teachers is using iPods to help with elementary literacy and reading fluency. The video needs some work1 but the idea is sound and interesting2. It's a bit of a HEF ad but they're a good group that helps fund projects like this so I'm happy to help them out."

"The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum. Study independently at your own pace or join a group and use the free learning tools to work with others. "

"This is a group started by Education Ningsters from across the country to encourage teachers and administrators to create Nings. "

Steve Kimmi's group of 5th graders form Salina, Kansas needs your help! We want to know Why you read? Why you write? They are trying to get as many responses as we can from everyone and anyone. You can help by adding your text, audio, or video, to this Voicethread

"Here is a list of one hundred books selected by the National Education Association in 1999 as great reading for children and young people. To help make these books more useful, we have added book and author links to any TeachersFirst resources and lesson ideas. For more reading ideas - including books grouped by theme and grade level - check out the hundreds of titles in our Suggested Reading section. "

"Mathtrain.TV is a free educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA. Here is a version of our BLC 09 presentation. STUDENT-CREATED Videos TEACHER-CREATED Videos CAPTIONED Videos Groups"

Some new and some common education resources.

Resources for teachers in Kansas and in reality any classroom teacher.

Ginger is the leading contextual grammar and Spell Checker on the market today. Based on full-sentence context, Ginger automatically corrects even the most severe spelling and grammatical mistakesat an unmatched success rate. The product operates as an online service and supports MS-Word, MS-Outlook, MS-PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and Firefox.Ginger's key features:* Grammar & Spell Checker- Corrects texts based on the context of each sentence.* Ginger helps users learn from their own mistakes. Tracking the mistakes of each individual user, the Ginger Tutor automatically creates a personalized learning program with tailored lessons and quizzes for each user.* Ginger Text-to-Speech Reader(Premium Version)- Reads aloud texts in emails, documents,and web pages and Improves the user's pronunciation and accent.* Ginger provides assessment & progress reports to students and teachers (School version). The reports include the most frequent mistakes in each topic, as well as a student's progress over time. Teachers can view individual student reports or any group report. This enables the teachers to better tailor their lessons for the level of each student. www.gingersoftware.com