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Read this teacher-friendly article for an overview of the rationale for using rubrics and tools and tips for implementing rubrics as an assessment tool in your classroom. You will be able to create and start using rubrics for student assessment within an hour.

"Google Apps has been a boon to schools all over the world. This was a packaged deal from Google where many tools are made available to the schools and school districts to create a controlled system for communication and collaboration."

"In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium."

The graphic below is a clickable image map. Simple click on the tool to visit it!

" The social bookmarking web site Diigo has many features, other than simply collecting and tagging web addressess. Diigo offers a wide variety of tools for teachers and students in the K-12 classroom. Diigo is a powerful Web 2.0 application and social networking web site, as it empowers users to save, categorize and annotate information all over the Internet and share it with others Diigo users and on other social networks."

Life in the 21st century provides a whole-new world of opportunities for self-directed, passion-driven, personalized learning.  Educators who are ready to move on from teaching the way they were taught, and administrators who will let them, can begin supporting students using tools and strategies available to the 21st century learner. 

Standards based instructional tools and assessments

Classroom tools, games, resources

I've written previously on how your resume is meaningless, on building career security, not job security and on the rise of personal branding.  To summarize the overarching themes of those three posts quickly: Your work should be working for you, building your reputation, not locked away in a resume. A resume proves nothing, a living case study proves everything. Creating a name for yourself in your industry provides you the ultimate freedom:  career security. The tools exist for you to influence your industry in deep ways to make positive change and carve out a name for yourself. Building your personal network enables incredible connections with the world around you not previously possible. A blog is the ideal avenue to accomplish all of this and so much more.

A conference held in Kansas in June each year to immerse you in ways to use technology as instructional tools.

Useful sites for managing social media

Create and publish online surveys in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time. SurveyMonkey provides free online questionnaire and survey software. free for 10 survey items & 100 participants; $19.95/mo. for more.

Quickly and easily create free online surveys to get the insights you need. With Zoomerang's online survey software, you can build a survey in minutes with free access to over 100 professionally-designed online survey templates.

Myriad of free tools for use in the classroom

Preview New Content and Enhancements for Back-to-School 2011 Enlighten students with thought-provoking new content and improve teaching and learning with product enhancements for students, teachers, and administrators. The Evaluation Tools Educators Need to Inform Instruction and Drive Student Achievement Discovery Education ASSESSMENT offers Common Core formative assessments and interim benchmarks for all 50 states.

Atlas is a Web-based curriculum management tool that electronically: Incorporates curriculum mapping, tracks gaps and repetition in instruction, addresses the Why in performance testing, aligns curriculum to benchmarks and standards, produces updated reports to encourage partnerships, facilitates sharing of ideas and communicating them rapidly across buildings, schools and grades and shares requirements with students.

Welcome to Target the Problem!, a tool to help parents and classroom teachers understand the specific problems a child may be having with reading. You'll find practical suggestions on what you (and kids themselves) can do to help students overcome or deal with their reading difficulties.

We have already explored the "Why?" The benefit, the usefulness of the PLN. Now, let's explore several tools that can help us engage, create, communicate, share, and connect with other professionals for the common purpose of leading and learning.

A collaboration between Good and Kiss Me I'm Polish, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. By  Greg Swanson - Edtechtoolbox, 30th April Implementing Effective Technological Change: What a Classroom Teacher needs 1. Many teacher’s discoveries of how to use Web 2.0 tools and new applications occur when they are simply trawling the net for new and innovative teaching strategies.

Welcome to Kansas' Education Resource Center The Kansas Education Resource Center contains tools for teachers to use in aligning classroom instruction and assessment to Kansas' academic standards.