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Pinside is a free online sticky note service. Pinside can be used to create boards of notes for yourself or boards to share with others. You can create a mix of private and shared notes within one account. Sticky notes on shared Pinside boards are designed for creating to-do lists. As each item on the the notes is completed you and or your collaborators can delete completed items. Applications for Education Pinside could be a good little tool for students working on group projects to assign tasks to each other and check them off as they go. Pinside could also be used by students to create a board of action items for each of the courses that they are taking.

Finding books that kids will like can be a difficult task. Literature Map is a tool that might make that process easier. Literature Map provides a web of authors you might like based on authors that you already enjoy reading. To use Literature Map just type an author's name into the search box and webbed list of authors will be displayed. The authors' names closest to the author whose name you entered are the authors whose work you're most likely to enjoy.

Great article that explains how PBL can be used to help teachers help their students to be more successful with the new common core standards.

"Introducing Real World Performance Tasks Real Life. Real Data. Real Challenges. Engage your students with math that is relevant to them."

"free online software tool for task management, project management, and team collaboration made for G Suite"

I've been working on authentic assessments in my iObservation class, and I have come across the idea of "Performance Checklists" as an alternative to rubrics. This is a checklist creator. Here's a science lab example already created: http://pals.sri.com/pals/tasks/5-8/Blue/rubric.html

Math and science simulations in a variety of topics with quick formative assessment questions from ck-12.org.