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Week 1 Additional suggested reading ["NY Times, Nov 1, 2012. This article raises concerns about the impact of technology on students' attention spans and ability to persevere on challenging tasks, and approaches the question about how much schools need to adjust to students and how much students can be expected to adjust to schools" 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]

Storybird is a great free website. You can create a class account and student accounts. The students have to be creative because there are limited, but beautiful images to support the student writing.

Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.

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

Great independent student website for students to practice computer schools and digital citizenship skills.

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.

Great website for 4th to 8th graders to design their own games. Teachers can create logins for a list of students and monitor their progress. Approved on Common Sense Media with 5/5 stars. I usually introduce this to my grade 5 students.

Two free apps: "Students can use them to unleash their creativity and delve into a world of imagination creating scenes, designing characters, animating cartoons and telling their own stories through beautifully recorded shows."

This is normally a premium service by using this teacher registration link all students within a class can have a free fully-functional account within the school. Students can use assigned activities at home.

Students answer multiple choice questions. Teacher and students can view live results. Instruction can be modified on the spot based on results.

Students answer multiple choice and short answer questions. Teacher and students can view live results. Instruction can be modified on the spot based on results. Electronic exit tickets provide teacher with information on students perception of a lesson.

ISTE Article: "When I explain the DLC program model to others, people have a two-part reaction: The initial excitement and curiosity about what sounds like "ideal" teaching practices, followed by speculation and doubt. If every student has access to technology and projects replace tests, what are the students actually learning?"

Pep talk for teachers and students by "Kid President' on YouTube.

SafeShare version of "Kid President" pep talk to students and teachers.

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.

Site for sharing student art with merchandise made with their art, comments (approved by parents)

"Remind is a communication tool that helps teachers connect instantly with students and parents. Send quick, simple messages to any device."

Create polls to share with students or teachers.

Great lesson for students and teachers.