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Use Ctrl+1 to zoom in on the screen. It does not have to be installed. It can just be run as needed.

This is the little utility I use to zoom in on the screen for Windows machines.

Great outline of steps to take if you want to participate in a mystery Skype call with grammar school students.

I used these steps twice 2012-2013 with fifth grade. They really enjoyed the experience. I used it with third grade in 2013-2014.

This is the document from the Vatican website talking about Lay Catholics in Schools.

For the 45 states who opted into Common Core, using technology in the classroom is no longer a choice-it's required. Common Core's Standards insist that for any student to be prepared for college and career requires they be digitally- and technologically savvy.

13 good reasons to give to someone who is fearful of technology to show that they ARE using technology.

Developed for use in middle and high school classrooms, Mission US engages students in the study of transformational moments in American history. Each mission consists of an interactive game and a set of curriculum materials that are aligned to National Standards and feature document-based activities.

Our 5th graders absolutely love this website! The teacher is using the lesson plans and activities and everyone is very happy!

Now you can build with LEGO® bricks using Google Maps as your baseplate. Imagine. Explore. Build online in Chrome. Only works using Google Chrome browser.

Via Ralph on Edmodo: This was pretty fun to do with my students in grade 5-6. Really works on the engineering aspect of STEM.

Great, great, great short article on thinking about collaboration in education.

Interactive way to call on students. You can click the floppy disk icon to save the list as a .htm file in downloads. It can be renamed and clicked on to open the site with the student list intact.

Curriculum Maps and Unit Plans for the schools in the Archdiocese of Newark.

A method of immersing students in learning through an "escape" type game.

Now that you have iPads in the classroom

Week 6 - Recommended reading "The Frameworks Institute, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, provides a set of framing research reports and application tools to help education leaders increase public support for digital learning initiatives. Their main findings and recommendations are summarized in a Message Memo about Talking About Learning and Digital Media and a related video, and the site provides several additional resources" from MOOC-Ed

Week 6 recommended reading "Ken Kay, the former president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and now CEO of EdLeader21, provides a series of seven blogs describing a framework for leadership actions to implement the 4Cs (critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity) in schools" from MOOC-Ed

Week 2 Additional reading: "Alliance for Excellent Education, May 2012. Pp. 1-16 on learner centered education and teaching in a learner-centered environment." from MOOC-Ed This is a very good document.

Week 2 Additional Reading: "This infographic and the following text from the Alliance for Excellent Education provides an overview of the challenges and the elements that leaders must address in responding to the challenges" from MOOC-Ed

Week 1 Additional suggested video ["Edutopia Big Thinker Series. Dr. Barab discusses learning through games in which learners become central, important participants" from MOOC-Ed]

Week 1 - Additional suggested video: ["Two national leaders, who helped write the 2010 National Education Technology Plan (listed in the printed resources below), discuss the plan, personalization of learning, new curriculum standards and assessments, and their insights about directions for digital learning. Excerpted from an interview with Glenn Kleiman from EpicEd.org" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 - Additional suggested video ["A video summary of the report is listed in the next section. Each year, NMC analyzes the potential of emerging technologies for K-12 education and predicts, for each type of technology (e.g., tablet computing, game-based learning, augmented reality), the time-to-adoption horizon, ranging from one to five years. These are very valuable reports for keeping up with emerging technologies" from MOOC Ed]