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This is an online platform for educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. This would allow students to display knowledge and skills to create multimedia projects. It allows students to use animations, web cams, audio, attachments and blogs in the creation of their projects. It also has a feature that allows students to share their work with particular individuals or social networks. A subscription to this tool is as cheap as $10 for a whole year. They have other levels for pricing as well.

Express yourself with the ultimate Glog(TM) - graphic blog. Mix Web, Images, Text, Music and Video. Create your Glogster account today and publish in a new way.

This site is so much fun to design for students and even parents. It has awesome color themes and backdrops and offers a really fun way to get across information. It's like a homepage you can create with links to other sites, videos, pictures and more. Our school has a page and the kids really enjoy using it for library resources and etc. I am going to be using this for my class page this fall. I think this site is targeted for fifth grade and up. Younger students may be able to use some of the basic features, but it would require some instruction from the teacher.

I have used Glogster to replace a paper poster in the classroom. The students really enjoyed the chance to have a different presentation of a product.

This article discusses how to teach students to strengthen Executive Functions. Examples are given on to recognize the weakness that often mistaken for other problems such as laziness, lack of focus, and forgetful. Great examples on how to tackle these issues and provides strategies that will help over come executive function weaknesses.

This article discusses challenges teachers face with differentiated instruction. Every challenge presented if followed by links to articles that relate to the challenge and webinars to watch. The challenge of helping students with special needs and disabilities is very interesting since this goes with my groups data meeting 2 exploratory question.

This article explains three sources of data information a teacher can collect to make instructional decisions. These data sources are: formative assessments, cumulative files and standardized test data. The formative assessments include quizzes, exit slips, and include anecdotal notes from classroom observations. These resources prove invaluable and will provide teachers with information to be better plan lessons that meet student needs.

This article examines the types of data teachers can collect from their own students and how it can be used to change instruction. It offers several different ideas and causes of low student achievement and how a teacher may address these issues.

This article focuses on the struggling reader and how an educator can use interventions properly.

A great read for teachers who have students with ADHD in their classroom! It covers basics, and specifics of how to handle these students, and how to get them to learn the most effectively they can in your classroom! Specific topics include keeping a positive environment and documenting everything the students complete in class.

It is no longer assumed that productive language competence naturally develops from receptive language competence. Now the noticing and the focused output hypotheses are considered in order to arrive at solutions for addressing the gap between receptive and productive competence.

This article gives a list of data ideas and how to use the data to inform instruction. The article is aimed to new teachers but offers several ideas and insights into using data.

This article briefly explains the importance of challenging students to think differently through the use of different questioning techniques.

This would definitely be an interesting way of teaching argument writing to my 9th grade classes. With this lesson, students analyze how an author creates an argument in several short documentaries.

An article about designing your classroom to be 21st century learning-friendly. Includes space design suggestions and app suggestions for use in the classroom.

Formative assessment is vital to teachers in any classroom environment. Teachers have been formatively assessing students for years, because we must know what our students know in order to help them understand what they do not know. Do you know what I mean?! Fortunately, many classrooms are charging into the 21st century with technology initiatives.

Learning and memory specialist Marilee Sprenger writes about vocabulary critical to the Common Core and offers 11 strategies for helping students learn it.

Vocabulary strategies presented here makes it necessary to be reflective of how new words are introduced to students. The strategies require students to interact beyond knowing how to correctly spell a word but how a word is used and what it means for students to engage with the word.

I love Edutopia! Some of their resources are really great. I think that this specific article is FANTASTIC for information about how to teach students the critical vocabulary necessary for them to become successful 21st Century Learners!

A collection of widgets -- and related code -- that can be embedded in websites.

Week 8 Google Scholar is among the best scholarly search engines online yet only a few select of educators know its secrets.As a rule of thumb that applies to all Google products, the effective use of any service from Google s can only be achieved through mastering its deep and hidden features.

You know those paper fortune tellers?  They were *the* rage when I was a kid.  I loved them!  And it is time to introduce my kiddos to the joy of Cootie catchers – while reviewing math lessons. We made two paper games, one to review fractions and another to review times tables. . Want to learn …

Edutopia is a great resource for lesson plan ideas and professional development. This article offers project-based learning opportunity for students learning simple circuits.