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This is a great Teacher to Parent communication tool. Parents are able to directly engage with students' work.

Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons

Some of this are simply projects, but they can easily be transformed into project based learning. This are excellent ideas of projects for your classrooms.

Examples of gamification that can easily be put in a classroom to improve student engagement and participation.

Great blog post on how to manage and monitor a BYOD classroom

A terrific way to find standard based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practice.

This is an interactive learning website that allows students from pre-K to 6th grade to enhance skills in all subject areas through the use of games. There are games for every content subject covered during these grades. The website allows teachers to supplement standard course work with games that engage students to practice the skills in a different manner.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN. Help you understand why educators create their own PLN.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. It's great for people who still need to delve deeper into what a PLN actually is.

This is a very information-rich site that further introduces the PLN and delves into several different avenues a teacher can take in developing their PLN, with one avenue explored being Twitter. I particularly found the Step 6: Curation page to be intriguing. This page introduces curation, the strategic collection and compilation of knowledge and media found online, and demonstrates how it can be a valuable tool for educators engaged in expanding and sharing their constant learning and teaching journeys (See the video towards the middle of the page where a teacher shows his netvibes and scoopit accounts, and the very complex ways in which teachers can organize and share knowledge from these information collection/filtering tools. VERY valuable for our fast-paced and information-heavy time.)

A good way to make math fun for the little ones and to give them some practice is by engaging them with our free, easy second grade math activities! In Does your second grader need to brush up his multiplication skills? Try this interesting dot-to-dot math activity for 2nd grade.

I found this was a great website for computer labs. If you are working with children in a computer lab, these games are great!

ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids. The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students that offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities. Millions of kids, parents, and teachers visit ABCya.com each month, playing over 1 billion games last year.

Creating compelling home videos takes practice, and we've put some tips together to get you started. They'll help you record more watchable movies that you and your family can enjoy for years to come. Our shooting tips fall into two categories - honing your technique for engaging movies and general suggestions for improving your shots.

The Global Digital Citizen Foundation works to teach and facilitate good technology uses to students.

Writing games that provide a virtual internship

Tips to creating the IDEALl Infographic.

Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology. I really liked this website because it organizes applications by subject, grades, and skills. This gives teachers the opportunity to strategically pick applications to engage their students based on where they are individually.

Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology.

A presentation tool to create and project exciting Voki presentations and increase student engagement. A better way to teach your lessons.