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"Attend this one-of-a kind event for and by teachers and raise your awareness of the Flipped Learning ideology. Educators from all disciplines and across the globe are embracing Flipped Learning in elementary and secondary schools in most subject areas. Be part of the new way of teaching and learning. Click on the tab above for more information and agenda, including hotel info, and to register now! "

"According to a new Character Counts Study by the Josephson Institute of Ethics (the largest ever undertaken of the attitudes and conduct of high school students), nearly half (47%) say they were bullied, teased, or taunted in a way that seriously upset them in the past year. The study reports the responses from 43,321 high school students. Nationally statistics have shown in the past that 32% of students reported being bullying during a one year period. "

"am conducting a series of workshops in Florida and was asked to share a rubric to help teachers evaluate educational apps as part of the workshop. In 2010 Harry Walker developed a rubric, and I used his rubric (with some modifications by Kathy Schrock) as the basis for mine."

Sign up today to receive a FREE Financial Literacy Kit including posters, teacher's guides, reproducible activities, and parent guides. * The Learn and Earn Program with the Secret Millionaires Club and Warren Buffett inspires and enables your students to learn good financial behavior in a fun and engaging way. * The program includes nationally aligned educational extensions of Warren Buffett's animated series teaching financial and entrepreneurial lessons. * In the animated web series on AOL Kids and in an all new prime time special on The Hub Network, the SMC Kids get financial and business advice from one of the most successful investors of all time, Warren Buffett. * Program materials are aligned to HMH's Go Math curriculum. Sign up today for a free sample activity.

"Before March 2009, Eric Sheninger viewed social media the way many principals do. He didn't think it would help students learn. Instead, he saw it as a hindrance to learning. "

"When I started working on PCs back in the mid-80's, there were thirty-six individual memory chips to be inserted in motherboard sockets. Today's computers don't have half that many individual parts! But the basic tool for troubleshooting PC problems remains unchanged - it's your brain. Swapping parts without thinking about it may work in production environments where there are endless supplies of spare parts lying around, but if you're trying to troubleshoot your home computer or out on a field service job, you won't have that luxury. The majority of computer problems turn out to be software issues, especially malicious software. But intermittent hardware failures can baffle the best technicians, and the only way to work around them is to adopt a systematic approach to troubleshooting rather than shooting from the hip. The approach I teach through my websites and books is to a process of elimination that narrows down the possibilities until the failure can be identified. When you master the basic troubleshooting technique, you'll be able to apply the lesson to technologies and situations not covered here. The flowcharts below are miniatures excerpted from my book "Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts" which is used by home hobbyists as well as for a course text in technical colleges and a field guide for technicians. "

" Share Ideas Instantly Simple and FREE, Jing is the perfect way to enhance your fast-paced online conversations. Create images and videos of what you see on your computer screen, then share them instantly! Use Jing to… Take Screenshots: Capture an image of what you see on your computer screen Record Screencasts: Record up to 5 minutes of onscreen video Collaborate: Jing's older siblings - Snagit and Camtasia - are great for editing and "

"This week I gave six presentations at the NCTIES conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Throughout the week I tried three different talk timers on my Samsung Galaxy Tab. (By the way if you're interested in having me speak at your event, please click here)."

"Welcome to Serendip, a playground, including resources and forums, for those who ask questions without boundaries. Glad you stopped by. Need a few pointers to find your way around? Looking for "the answer" to a question? There are plenty of websites out there which will tell you what to think. Serendip instead aims at helping you to think for yourself, and in the process of discovery to formulate new questions and new explorations. Nothing on Serendip is "authoritative", but there is lots here that you can learn from and contribute to. See (and click on) the material below and to the right for recently added discussions. Click here for publishing guidelines."

Considering the heavy female demographic happening on Pinterest, we were surprised to find the U.S. Army had a well-stocked profile, until we checked out the rest of their online goings-on. The Army is all up on the Internet. And, in a very active way -- it doesn't just have social media profiles to have its hand in the future. It has robust profiles on various sites, ranging from the big social media players like Twitter to newbs like Pinterest, each appropriately using the platform as a PR tool. It's really quite impressive for such an established, bureaucratic organization that one would assume would stink at the Web.

"Welcome to my Flipped Classroom! This blog serves as a place to reflect and analyze the use of this new way of teaching and learning in my two math classes: Algebra 1 and Math Analysis Honors. My goal is to share what's working, what's not working, and ideas on how to improve as I strive to continue to help my students succeed at their highest level!"

"Overview The CUE Conference collection contains videos featuring the best of curriculum technology solutions, resources, and techniques presented by outstanding educators. Through engaging interviews, panel discussions, or keynote presentations, leading education and technology experts discuss the ways that innovative uses of technology are making a positive impact on education."

"A new way to work. iPad features incredible applications like Mail, Calendar, Notes, and Safari in a beautiful, thin and light design, so you stay productive anywhere. With easy, secure integration into business environments and a robust platform for app development, iPad is ready to start working when you are. "

"Make your course come alive. The simple way to manage your course and engage your students. "

"Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school districts it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the apps that are available. While this list is by no means fully comprehensive, it will assist educators in getting started when implementing iOS devices in the classroom. This site will change almost daily as it will be updated with new and exciting apps! If you find any that you have worked with in your classroom please email dmileham@e1b.org or tweet @bloomsapps or @dmileham75 with your suggestions. Thanks for checking the site! "

"There are three core questions that help guide the development of an elearning course. I discussed this a bit in the post on building a roadmap for elearning. What is the look and feel of the course? What information needs to be in the course? What will the learner do with the information? "

"In preparation for the CUE Rockstar Teacher Tech Camp I am trying to create a SIMPLE and comprehensive "Explore-Flip-Apply" lesson planning template for session participants. Click here to see what I have create so far and feel free to "make a copy" and use as you like. I welcome any suggestions you have. I am having trouble embedding the google doc, so I have provided screenshots below as well. My goal is to create a streamlined way for teachers to unpackage a topic according to Blooms Taxonomy, then allocated those learning objectives across an inquiry based learning cycle, using video as a low-end Blooms content delivery tool after knowledge construction. "

"Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, peer-to-peer forum discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed and, most importantly, absorbed. "

"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. "

"ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Remixers If you're into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal."