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"For students, the classroom environment is very important. The size of the classroom and interior areas, the colors of the walls, the type of furniture and flooring, the amount of light, and the room arrangement all influence how students learn. Thoughtful arrangement of the indoor and outdoor environments will support your learning goals for students.This tool provides an opportunity for experimentation with the layout of your classroom without any heavy lifting! "

Engrade was founded in 2003 with a single mission: to help teachers. Over the years, Engrade has grown by leaps and bounds, being adopted by teachers and schools in all 50 states and in 150 countries across the world. Today, more than 3,000,000 members use Engrade. We're very proud to do our part to help educators improve the lives of students around the world. Our service is truly free and will remain free. We offer all teacher services for free and we offer a large number of school services for free. Engrade is supported by schools that chose to upgrade to our optional premium service, EngradePLUS, which offers advanced reports and customizations. Many educators ask us if their information will stay private and secure on our service, and we can assure you that it will. We take our users privacy very seriously. Take a look at our privacy and security help pages below.

Edmodo is transforming the way that teachers and students connect, engage and learn both inside and outside the classroom. Check out our Edmodo In Action videos for examples of how its being used.

"Springnote allows you to create pages, to work on them together with your friends, and to share files. Springnote is also a great tool for group projects as it allows group members to easily collaborate. Advanced search, numerous templates, and 2GB of FREE File Storage are only few examples of how Springnote can help you. Of course, you already know that Springnote is an Internet service, meaning you can access it from anywhere anytime. "

Educational Origami is a blog and a wiki, about 21st Century Teaching and Learning. This wiki is not just about the integration of technology into the classroom, though this is certainly a critical area, it is about shifting our educational paradigm. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact, we know that exposure to technology changes the brains of those exposed to it. The longer and stronger the exposure and the more intense the emotions the use of the technology or its content evokes, the more profound the change. This technology is increasingly ubiquitous. We have to change how we teach, how we assess, what we teach, when we teach it, where we are teaching it, and with what.

Susan Gilley has background with more than 25 years in education. She began her educational career in business education, moved to shared responsibilities as a technology coordinator/business educator, and then moved to full time technology coordinator. She is currently the Director of Instructional Technology at Harrison Public Schools in northwest Arkansas. She is a member of the Technology Infused Education (TIE) Cadre as well as the Arkansas Society for Technology in Education and Delta Kappa Gamma. She has presented numerous times at the Hot Springs Technology Institute as well as the Arkansas Association for Instructional Media Conference and most recently at the Schools Without Walls Conference and TICAL. She has developed numerous training modules for TIE and presented a variety of those at her local coop during the summer. She makes these available to people because it's not what you know, but what you share!

"This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place! Each of the images has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for Google, iPad, Android, and Web 2.0 applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy."