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A powerpoint from EETC (Early Education and Technology for Children) describing instruction for teachers to intergrade technology using differentiation. This takes you step by step through the process the teacher should take to use differentiating instruction.

A great power point presentation of examples on how to make sure when you integrate technology you differentiate as well

Brainpop is a fantastic website that has definitely withstood through time. There are wonderful videos, quizzes and games that cover pretty much any topic imaginable for all age groups.

Students can learn and understand better with animated movies, games, playful assessments, and activities covering Science, Math, History, English. Subscription required.

This website shows free apps in action. There is a video you can watch that shows how the apps work so you can see them before you download them on the IPads for your students.

Great lesson you may want to try in your own classroom!

This site is an activities and ideas page from the Digital Learning Day in February 2016. It offers resources and activities to aid teachers in implementing digital citizenship resources within the classroom.

This website discusses the importance of storytelling when teaching new material to a class. We felt like when most people think of storytelling they only think of teaching in that method to younger kids but it can actually be beneficial to all ages. We thought this website had a lot of good reasons and facts as to why storytelling can be beneficial in the classroom.

This article is a good read because at the bottom it gives tips on how to get people engaged and do what you want them to do!  Highlighted in green is the important tips I took out of this read. 

A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that? When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich started to market his product through stories instead of benefits and bullet points, sign-ups went through the roof. Here he shares the science of why storytelling is so uniquely powerful.

10 Reasons to Use Multimedia in the Classroom By: Barbara Schroeder By incorporating multimedia in their instruction, teachers can capture attention, engage learners, explain difficult concepts, inspire creativity, and have fun. However, there are many tools available and many ways to use those tools.

This government site has free resources for teaching digital citizenship. You can order free education booklets and other materials for your whole school. Make sure you scan these materials before giving them directly to students, especially at the elementary level. Some materials contain mature content and should be delivered directly to parents, perhaps during conferences. "The Net Cetera online toolkit offers free resources to help you teach people in your community about kids' online safety. Regardless of your experience as a speaker - or your expertise in online safety - this kit has the resources and information you need to convey key points about protecting kids online."

Provides fun activity pages for SMART Notebook.

Easy ways to work in groups

Wiggio is a web-based collaboration tool that makes working in groups easy, productive and maybe even fun. This is great for creating a group with all of the parents, the students, or both.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups.

Smore is perfect for making good newsletters and things such as that for your students.

This website addresses the extent of the research done to determine a teacher's reason for deciding to use educational websites as resources in the classroom.

Useful list of platforms for teachers to create there own website and blog.

This Website provides the viewer with websites that provide platforms to create a classroom website and blog. Weebly and Google sites, listed on the website, suggests these may be the best resources for a teacher searching for innovative resources to use in the classroom.

Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, and Google's top rated Futurist Speaker. Unlike most speakers, Thomas works closely with his Board of Visionaries to develop original research studies. This enables him to speak on unusual topics and translate trends into unique business opportunities.

A few years ago I was taking a tour of a dome shaped house, and the architect explained to me that domes are an optical illusion. Whenever someone enters a room, their eyes inadvertently glance up at the corners of the room to give them the contextual dimensions of the space they're in.

Are you looking for an elearning solution for teaching your staff about procedures and more, Metacompliance is your solution to business to business elearning.