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Great article that reminds us that children already think like scientists, so let's continue to breed that culture at home and in the classroom!

Use a storyboard to have students create comics about topics in class.

A great article that provides resources so that you could use coding/gaming in your classroom environment.

These could be very useful for next school year with the amount of chromebooks we will have.

How to use LEGOs to help your teaching and student learning in the classroom.

Create a virtual time machine in your history or social studies classroom.

How could you create a project/game that incorporates assessment while learning is occurring?  

Talking Cutie is a fun free iPad app that lets you add voices to images. Simply take a photograph, and then record up to 60 seconds of narration over the top. You can then add a talking face to the object - choosing from a wide range of different features. This would have lots of uses in the classroom. Children could add a short description of an artefact in history, historical characters, famous people, they could describe different animals and plants in science. This would be great for foreign language work, with the children speaking short phrases in the target language. The app changes the voice, so children who hate hearing themselves shouldn't have a problem when the finished video is played back, as it doesn't sound like them.

Giphy (add GIFs to docs), Add to Classroom, EasyBib, ScanQR

Free accounts for students, more classroom features coming soon.

"When it is used correctly YouTube can be a good platform for spreading news about the great things that are happening in our classrooms and schools. It can also be a good platform for students to share their thoughts and projects. But before you upload videos to YouTube there are a few settings that you should be aware of. In the video embedded below I provide an overview of those settings."

"Since the first time I tried it last fall I have been impressed with HSTRY. HSTRY is a great multimedia timeline creation tool. There are two features of HSTRY that make it stand-out from the crowd. First, as a teacher you can create an online classroom in which you can view all of your students' timelines. Second, as a teacher you can build questions into timelines that you share with your students. You can even insert explanations of the answers to your questions. "

Splashtop Classroom is a great tool that allows teachers control and share lessons and presentations on their desktop with all students in class. Students will be able to see and follow everything you do on your desktop. With the recent updates, both teachers and students now can use whiteboard tools to add annotations and drawings to lesson content right from their own devices.

"COMMONLIT is a collection of poems, short stories, news articles, historical documents, and literature for classrooms."

I use http://www.joomag.com/ with my kids. The name of the site is terrible, but the final products are AMAZING.