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Lucy Calkins, Teachers College, spoke at IRA last week--reasoned and wonderful. Here's the website whre she is gathering information on the NYS ELA exams from 2013.

Funded by the Gates Foundation, EdSurge provides reviews of products, publishers an online newsletter and wiki about technology in schools

Funded by the Gates Founcation, EdSurge provides reviews of products, publishers an online newsletter and wiki about technology in schools

Translating the reading standards of the Common Core into haiku.  Beautiful rendition!

Very sensible strategy for managing google docs in the classroom.

Great blog (9-4-12) on the reality of education technology in most schools. Worth your time to read.

This digital novel looks very interesting--includes multimedia in an interactive way. It's new to me, but I would suggest that you 'engage' in the story to determine the best use and age appropriateness.

Great website on using comics in the classroom.

Creative Commons license chooser--answer the questions and this tool will suggest the correct choice. Creative Commons is a great resource for helping your students understand copyrighting as well.

KeepVid (free) allows you to download videos from many places (including YouTube, Flickr, TED, Vimeo and more) and then show in your classroom. It's free--you choose whether mac, PC, mobile, etc and the download. It really addresses where some schools 'block' all YouTube or there are buffering issues. I tend to use the mp4 version, but you have choices of file type too.

Decoding skills for kids who missed phonics. A syllable is a basic unit of written and spoken language. It is a unit consisting of uninterrupted sound that can be used to make up words. For example, the word hotel has two syllables: ho and tel. these will be marked here as in ho/tel.

Great site syllabication rules that will help students who struggle with decoding at middle school level. A syllable is a basic unit of written and spoken language. It is a unit consisting of uninterrupted sound that can be used to make up words. For example, the word hotel has two syllables: ho and tel. these will be marked here as in ho/tel.

"Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters. All interesting suggestions considered. Include descriptive passages if you can. Read more on the project at the Atlantic. "

I very much like Kathy Schrock's work--this one discusses iPads in the classroom and there are many useful links as well.

New add ons in Google Drive (google docs and sheets)--I particularly like the bib.

Nanoogo--This FREE site encourages children to be creative and share ideas. It's a cross between a blog and a digital canvas and formatting is really simple. Users just drag and drop the images and text however they wish. there is also a teacher sign up option, which lets you quickly add a whole class or school. Worth a look.

This was so helpful to me. Explains many of the 2.0 technologies--what they are and how to use them.

Mobile devices, according to Horizon Report (2010), are really the wave of the future. Here's lots of resources related to these devices (e.g., iPad).

Great blog post for starting the beginning of the school year.

Great article that every parent should read. Good practical thinking and tips. Love the parallel to the ball field.

Great website that could be used with kids to help teach the process involved in writing and publishing a story.

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