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"Ginger Gregory is the Gifted Resource Teacher at Lakeview Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, and currently has 117 videos on her classroom YouTube channel. Ginger has used the six iPads in her classroom and her free, district-provided YouTube channel (since the Yukon school district participates in the Google Apps for Education program) to help her students develop oral communication skills, oral fluency, as well as digital literacy skills this semester. In the following six minute video, Mrs. Gregory and eight of her students explain what they have learned as a result of their assignments this year using iPad videos and YouTube."

"By now, you've probably see Commander Chris Hadfield's tear-jerking farewell to the International Space Station: a cover of David Bowie's classic space song, Space Oddity, filmed and performed by Hadfield himself in zero-g. In case you haven't, we've embedded it above: it's hard not to be proud of humanity after watching it. But do you know how Hadfield actually recorded it? With his iPad, of course."

"Thanks to Brent Catlett, this afternoon I learned that you can now insert images into your Google Forms. Brent posted some screenshots of the process. After trying it out myself, I created a short video of the process. The video is embedded below."

"Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources in education and in business. He is also one of the world's leading speakers on these topics, with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been viewed more than 25 million times and seen by an estimated 250 million people in over 150 countries. His 2006 talk is the most viewed in TED's history. In 2011 he was listed as "one of the world's elite thinkers on creativity and innovation" by Fast Company magazine, and was ranked among the Thinkers50 list of the world's top business thought leaders. "

"Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate with iPads--Part 2"

" It's one thing to use Evernote, but it's entirely another thing to master Evernote. If you're new to Evernote, I don't want to come across like it's something complicated - it's not, in fact, it's the complete opposite. But there is a lot to Evernote - more than most of its users probably don't take advantage of."

"Using tech tools that students are familiar with and already enjoy using is attractive to educators, but getting students focused on the project at hand might be more difficult because of it."

"Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. See how professionals use math in music, fashion, videogames, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers. Watch this intro video before trying one of the challenges below. "

"It was a year's collection of running records, assessment data, anecdotal notes and other documents used to track my students' progress over the year. That was only a small part of my paper collection. I'd collected so much that it was hard to find my desk, buried under a mountain of paper. So this year, I decided to go as paperless as I could. Here's how.."