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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.

A great puzzle idea for a 3D printer. Going beyond "isn't it cool."

Tips and tricks for closing out the year in Edmodo.

Hudson County Educational Training Center

Bergen County Educational Technology Training Center

Essex County Educational Technology Training Center

Summer reading challenge with a chance for student to win iPad mini or $50 gift cards.

Now that you have made all of these awesome Google Forms and spreadsheets this year, how do you get ready for next year? Do not remake all of your forms, you can reuse them!

This video made me smile and gave a great explanation of Pentecost.

This is a great trick to know about in Google Docs. Copy multiple items and then select from those items to paste.

"The project was created in 2010 with a simple goal in mind; one book to connect the world. Now with five years under our belt and more than 500,000 connections made in 60 different countries, we realize we are on to something larger than us so we look forward to continuing the global connections. The premise is simple; we pick a book to read aloud to our students during a set 6-week period and during that time we try to make as many global connections as possible. Each teacher decides how much time they would like to dedicate and how involved they would like to be. Some people choose to connect with just one class, while others go for as many as possible. The scope and depth of the project is up to you. In the past we have used Twitter, Skype, Edmodo, our wiki, email, regular mail, Kidblog, Tackk, and any other tools we can think of to make these connections. Teachers get a community of other educators to do a global project with, hopefully inspiring them to continue these connections through the year."

Topics: 1. Lenape with Archaeology, 2. Farming with Living History, 3. Industry with Urbanization and Geography, 4. Invention with Material Culture, 5. The Underground Railroad, 6. American Revolution, 7. Immigrants with Oral History, 8. The Statehouse with Civics, 9. Barnegat Bay with Folk Art, 10. Delaware Bay 11. The Pinelands

Student created story in StoryBird.

Symbaloo webmix of Sphero apps.

Countdown timer from Classtools.net.

Interactive Fruit Machine from Classtools.net

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

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