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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]

Richard Byrne gave a short presentation on blogs and social media for teachers and school leaders. This article provides a link to his guide.

"This baby is the (unofficial) #Synod15 Mascot" via Maria Gennarini's blog post.

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

Blog post about winning a MakerBot Replicator

Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 25 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life.

Maybe your students would like to try these students challenges and post their results to these students' blogs.

"Welcome to Super Second grade with Ms. Espinoza, at Tiburcio Vasquéz! Our school is in the heart of the Eastside of Salinas. We are a 1:1 iPad school. In this classroom we struggle in order to learn, we encourage each other via positive feedback, we are a family and as such we support each other. "

Blog post with links to other resources

Week 6 - Recommended Readings "In his blog, Kelly Walsh provides a good, succinct summary of common flaws in educational technology implementations." from MOOC-Ed

Week 1 Additional suggested video: ["Edutopia provides profiles of technologically sophisticated students, with both a video and a written interview for each. The 10 students range in age from nine to 18. They are engaged in a of variety productive, creative uses of technology, including: producing videos; forming groups engaged in social activism; creating animations; writing blogs; and creating educational and other types of web sites. The link takes you to a menu where you can choose the profile of one or more students" from MOOC Ed]

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.

Blog post with a list of free apps.

Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 25 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life.

"This excerpt appears in the Buck Institute for Education's book, "PBL for 21st Century Success: Teaching Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity." Rubrics for each of the "4 C's" are in the book, and we offer guidance below on how to use them in a PBL context."

Some background on the rubrics I shared.

This blog is for Kindergrten and there are step by step picture instructions on lessons and units. There are also links to purchase worksheets and materials.

An essential guide to helping you facilitate a successful Minecraft class.

A set of video tutorials from Teachercast via Jeff Bradbury.

The President is looking for feedback from students on STEM and to pitch an idea too http://tinyurl.com/rcanstemshare Thank you Mary-Alice for posting this on Edmodo!