A good rubric can help students understand what is expected of them and it can help teachers score students' assignments consistently and efficiently. If your students are submitting assignments to you through Google Drive or Google Classroom, you may find yourself looking for a way to create and use rubrics without having to leave your Google Drive account to give feedback to your students.

The 2014 National Teacher of the Year, Sean McComb, works at a pretty average-looking high school. Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts isn't a school with extra funding or special dispensation to try something totally different. Students sit at desks, they rotate through periods and, in many ways, the school hasn't revolutionized what it looks like to attend school.

by Christina Chorianopoulou Educators are constantly presented with the unique opportunity to build communities; vibrant hubs where knowledge is explored and minds and futures are shaped. A language educator has the additional advantage of building such hubs using an extremely powerful tool: language itself.

Interesting TED Talk reminded me of Dr. Rice's reference to "mess" at the beginning of the course.

Great tools for videos and online discussion.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/02/two-good-tools-for-building-online.html#.Vrnb3bkrL-k

Interesting post with resources for creating online assessments.\https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/formative-assessment-pre-assessment-online-courses-kannan-amr