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"Speaking of strengths . . .at back-to-school night I listened to curriculum discussions and then wondered where Maya's literacy level (letter recognition, etc) is. I picked up a book and asked her about a few words, and she surprised me. Yesterday I wrote a few sentences, and she actually was able to read them with the talker. I tried again at breakfast this morning (because nothing counts until it's video documented, right?), check it out:"

"So if you're looking for information about a word, where do you turn to? The answer is, "the dictionary!" Ah, but which dictionary, you may ask? Well, based on my many years of working with words, here is a set of recommendations that can't fail to be of use. Each one is good in its own rights but for slightly different reasons. Nerds will want all seven but others will probably be just fine with two. Feel free to disagree but if you do, send a comment to explain why."

"The first one is about the Declaration of Independence and uses One Republic's Too Late to Apologize. The second video, which won an Emmy for Best Informational / Instructional Program in 2012, is about women's suffrage and it uses Lady Gaga's Bad Romance to tell this important story. These two music videos make great additions to any history teacher's history lesson."

K-12 online is live!

"Dan Habib is the creator of Including Samuel and the new film Who Cares About Kelsey? Habib is the Filmmaker in Residence at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire."

Wibbitz is a free innovative news-reader app for iPhone that creates a video summary of text articles from major news outlets. It features political, sports, business, technology, and entertainment news providers such as CNN, BBC, Huffington Post, FOX, TMZ, and Sports Illustrated.

"he students are using the iPad to access content, create content, and to demonstrate their knowledge.  For some of the students, just being able to access their assignments via @Edmodo, take notes with Notability via @gingerlabs, learn Social Studies, create assignments in Drive or Pages, review math skills with iXL, study with Quizlet and access books with downloads from Bookshare is huge. "

"As an Instructional Technology Coach, I try my best to provide staff, students, and parents with the best tools and resources to assist with teaching and learning in the digital age. Below is a compilation of some of my favorite AT tools and resources. "

"Book Creator is a versatile and intuitively set-up app that allows students to easily create digital content in a variety of ways. In Richmond, teachers have used their iPads and Book Creator to publish ebooks on a variety of topics and in a variety of genres. Below are some ideas for using Book Creator in your classroom."