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Nonfiction text structures are reviews here as well as Web 2.0 tools. Connections to CCSS are also made.

Put away your EZ-graders, teachers, QuickGrade is the easiest grade calculator around! Use this tool to make grading stacks of tests a snap. Made with love and totally free to use!

Good rubric for students to review apps.

I just used this site/download with an iPod project in my classroom. It is probably the most important site I have found in years. The primes is simple and there are probably pleanty of other sites like it but.... WOW. You can drop your files into the dropbox and they are saved to the "cloud". Then amazingly they are on every computer ( or iPod) you have linked to the account. I entered my account info on the student iPods and made a folder for each student, when they were done with a project, they saved it to the folder. The great thing about this was i could access their assigment from anywhere, my home computer, my iPhone, another iPod in the class, the smart board...it was limitless, I could share it with anyone, no matter where I was...how powerful. I also made a folder of "mrs. Kondrick's resources" where I put videos, audios, assignments, rubrics etc, and then they could watch them/use them at their own pace ( so ethnic that works well with our individualized daily 5 reading block.

Great website to gather data...to to middle of page and click on Chart Creator. Excel made EASY!

NY Times Article on the value of technology in schools. Since digital literacy is critical for participation in 21st Century, I am not sure I buy their argument regarding the tie in to stagnant scores--assessments don't really do a good job of measuring digital literacy (thought Donald Leu and colleagues have certainly made strides in teh area). Nevertheless, a good piece to read.

New website allowing easy webcasting with PPt slides.

PhotoCollect allows multiple people to upload pictures to same account--would be useful to share photos from filedtrips, for example. Easy to use.