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" What amazed me most about Classtools.net was not the valuable tools provided, but the ability for teachers to easily customize these tools and use them in any subject area. If that is not enough, how about the ability to embed your newly made instructional resource on your own classroom website, wiki, or blog? Any educator will also like the fact that students have no need to log in or sign up for an account… and neither do teachers! Need tutorials… they are provided! Do samples help you understand better… you will find plenty! Is budget a problem… then free should be affordable! Classtools.net is the work of educator, Russel Tarr, Head of History at the International School of Toulouse, France. Upon entering the site, educators will see the listing of tools. Clicking on a tool allows teachers to individualize that specific tool for their own classroom needs. Teachers then have the option of copying a generated link to place on their own web site or of copying a generated code to embed as a tool (widget) on their classroom site. Also, on the front page, are some video links that will provide further information. Two videos that provide excellent information are the 1 Minute Overview and How to Create Games. The Listing Of Over 20 Digital Tools For Your Classroom The tools that you can even customize are included below. Along with this tool listing you will find descriptions of each tool, an overview of and samples of specific tools (if provided), and any related video (if provided). * Arcade Game Generator - Allows teachers to create concept builders, practice exercises, and reviews. Best of all, one set up feeds into five different game possibilities at the same time The teacher can choose which game, or allow students a choice. Make sure you check out all the examples and pre-made games in (overview and samples). Also watch the How to Create Games . * Random Name Picker - Can be used as an activity management tool or skip the names.

the gist a wizard for creating and managing customized Google maps of address lists

"The Common Core Conversation Join the conversation about how to address the Common Core Standards in your classroom. "

"Mobile devices are quickly becoming the primary personal communications and computing platform for business. However, they introduce cost, risk, and usability challenges that traditional mobile device management strategies cannot address. MobileIron's approach is to simplify the problem for IT, finance, and end-users by moving smartphone data to the enterprise cloud."

" Consistent with BOR Policy IV-3.20, the UMUC Library has developed guidelines for the use of copyrighted materials. These guidelines address library and educational fair use as well as fair use exceptions for research and scholarly work. The purpose of this document is to help UMUC faculty understand copyright and fair use in the classroom, and it may be useful to UMUC students as well."

"logo Collaborate with your coworkers. Yammer is the free private social network for your company. Nue-lock-icon Only people with a verified company email address can join your company network. "

"WiredSafety's volunteers have been doing this since right after the Web was launched. For more than 16 years we have been helping people who need our help online. Our sites have had different formats, approaches and lots and lots of coders, editors, writers and webmasters. We are all volunteers, and our online presence looked different every time someone added something or took something away. The site and our other sites grew, but not always in the right way. Our haphazard sites and navigation would be modified to adapt to a need we discovered, and new topics shoe-horned in when they emerged. No one overall vision for the site. And it stopped reflecting our One Vision, One Mission, One WiredSafety rule. We never had enough time to plot our site, update everything and adopt the newest technologies to help us address the needs of the public or even all our volunteers. Please accept our apologies. That was before. This is now. With the generous support of Google, Spectorsoft and a couple others we have ripped everything down and started from scratch. Only about 10% done, we launched with the new site to clean things up. Expect daily changes and improvements. "

creating icons next to web addresses

"his wiki will host a variety of Web 2.0 applications to address instructional goals, student learning, and technology integration for participants. This wiki will also include relevant online resources that link to articles, files, and media about use and application related to personal and educational usage. Along with the discussion from the training and these resources, the wiki aims to include participant collaboration to develop usable guidelines for Web 2.0 applications within a K12 classroom."

The California Open Source Textbook Project (COSTP) began in 2001 as a collaborative - a public/private undertaking; it was the first organization created to address the high cost, content range, and consistent shortages of K-12 textbooks in California."

Netbooks, cloud apps encourage collaboration Students who have access to mobile devices at home constantly communicate on Facebook, Twitter and other sites, said Wayne Weber, the Laconia High School principal. But at some schools, administrators tell them, "Stop collaborating, stop communicating and put those devices away."

"To out-educate, we must out-innovate Posted by michael_horn | Under Online learning, Schools Thursday Feb 10, 2011 In his State of the Union address, President Obama urged the country to out-innovate the rest of the world. If we want to bolster America's competitiveness now and for the future, there's no better place to start than education, where Obama also said we need to out-educate the rest of the world."

"it's connection sharing made easy. it provides you with a QR Code, a single web address, NFC tags and a completely flexible management system for your social networks, websites, blogs and online accounts so people can connect with you quickly and easily. it's free. it's powerful. it's simple to use. "

Are your goals... To improve student achievement? To help your staff develop expertise in standards-based lesson planning? To see technology benefit student learning in every classroom? SchoolKiT's products play a key role in districts that are effectively addressing these challenges.

Techsteps is an online learning program that allows teachers to create classroom projects for students.

"Digital Literacy - CyberCivics™ Journey School's digital media program addresses a growing and urgent need to prepare our students to leave Journey School equipped with the skills to be ethical, confident and empowered digital citizens."

"The Future Ready Framework helps district leaders address seven major topics (or "gears"), plus leadership, as seen in the image to the right. Connections between each of the topics highlight the need for systemic planning throughout digital learning implementation and school district transformation."

An invitation program to help you track who is coming to what event.