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Week 1 Additional suggested reading ["pp 7-19. This is the national plan developed by the U.S. Department of Education, with input from a committee of national leaders in digital learning" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading: ["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. A link to a short video summary is provided in the video resources section above" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading ["K. Walsh, Emerging EdTech Blog, Sept. 4, 2011. This blog entry provides more of a classroom view than the NMC report, and focuses on what's already happening, rather than what may happen in future years. It has a succinct list with links for examples, tools and more information" from MOOC Ed]

This is May 14, 2015 at 4:00pm PDT which translates to 7:00pm Eastern. "Find out what it takes to run a Minecraft server so that players can participate together. Connected Camps staff will also talk about some useful tools and add-ons to help with server management."

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 Google sheet with two tabs. The RCAN tab is the Diigo id for local technology integration specialists. The Outside RCAN tab is for people I follow in DIigo around the world. You may want to add them to your network.

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.

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

Please Share ReadWorks with your colleagues and friends. It's free. The non-profit ReadWorks is committed to solving the nation's reading comprehension crisis by giving teachers the research-proven tools and support they need to improve the academic achievement of their students. ReadWorks provides research-based units, lessons, and authentic, leveled non-fiction and literary passages directly to educators online, for free, to be shared broadly. The ReadWorks curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and the standards of all 50 states. Most importantly, ReadWorks is faithful to the most effective research-proven instructional practices in reading comprehension.

Tips and tricks for closing out the year in Edmodo.

Students learn how to stay safe in the digital world with this web-based activity. Appropriate for Grades 2-5

Has anyone used this in math class?

Assists students in automaticity of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Free

Student created story in StoryBird.

World Meeting of Families will take place in Philadelphia September 22-25. The Papal visit is September 26-27.

International Society for Technology Education 2015 Conference in Philadelphia June 28-July 1.

The Teacher's Guide to Using Google Drive in the Classroom 2.0

Communities where teachers share resources and ask questions in subject area. This document lists "join codes" for various subject area groups.

Computational knowledge engine that searches vetted databases in many subject areas.

"Students coast to coast will answer the call to keep on reading about the world around them. Newsela's Summer Reading Challenge gives them the chance to earn badges, get newsroom promotions and climb in the standings, all while reading news and feature stories hot off the press."