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Sign up to be chosen as one of 1000 schools across the globe to participate in the Oracle Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools with topics covering comping and weather - for ages 11 and up. Free!

This is a great article on how educators can use the Internet to access free professional development in online spaces.

Hear the world like never before. Nature soundscapes and wildlife sounds from all over the planet.

A blog post about the Shadow Puppet Edu iTunes app. It is free and you can create videos with up to 100 images and up to 30 minutes long.

The Pope will be visiting the United States in September. Many schools are sharing photographs of themselves with Flat Francis. This is the website with the printable. Take a look at the #FlatFrancis hashtag on Twitter.

Technology resources by grade level

The movie geek and tech nerd squealed with joy with this info.

I'm bookmarking a NY Times article about it too. Geeky fun!

Personalized Printed Cards Delivered At Your Desk, Instantly! There's just something about a paper greeting card that never loses its charm for some of us. We like to hold the greeting in our hands, feel the crisp paper, run our fingers over the words and pictures- as if we were trying to absorb the essence of the message.

Ann spoke with me about this. It really sounds like an easy option to use with students.

While I've attempted to categorize these, many cross over multiple categories. Clicking on the links will give a longer description that will include images and sometimes an introductory video. Chrome Apps and Extensions along with Google Drive Add-ons and Apps can provide valuable support for readers.

I know I already posted abcya.com, but I found this very basic way of teaching coding today - used it with the 4th graders and they loved it! Lightbot is a educational game for kids that introduces several principles of programming.

Online Kids Educational Games - Taking Learning to a Whole New Level! At Turtle Diary, our mission is simple - to make learning fun for the little ones! Grade Pre-K to 5th Grade

Play educational kids games, computer games, printable worksheets and learning games online at turtlediary.com. Learn and play Free Games for Kids Online! This is a free website for toddler to 5th grade. It includes online practice, worksheets, video, lessons, etc. Teachers set up their class and students login to access the activities and view their progress.

With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it's becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers.

Thanks I saved this for myself. I like the ideas. They are something we should all have in mind as we work with teachers.

I think this program is excellent because it provides training grounds to teach students how to use the internet for research. I love that it ranks sources by reading level! The video on the home screen is self explanatory.

Thanks. I have to play with this. It looks like it has a lot of potential!

A few people talked about ways to charge multiple iPads or tablets. This is EVO's charge 10 solution

Mystery Science is a great resource for 2nd - 5th grades. They're offering a free year subscription for a limited time.You should sign up quickly, while it's still free (it normally costs $99 per year). I just signed up and requested my teachers to. http://mysteryscience.com/

Registration is now open for the 2015-2016 Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Check back here often for news and updates. No programming required!

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by Terry Heick It could be argued-and probably argued well-that what a student fundamentally needs to know today isn't much different than what Tom Sawyer or Joan of Arc or Alexander the Great needed to know. Communication. Resourcefulness. Creativity. Persistence. How true this turns out to be depends on how macro you want to get.