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Suggested by several technology integration specialists for fifth graders.

"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. "

iPad and iPad Mini stand with physical manipulatives that work with apps.

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

The button on the Sphero base.

I haven't had to use this, but how to give Sphero a deep sleep and jolt of a restart.

Nice set of directions if Sphero hasn't been charged in a while.

I have no experience with 3D printing. Someone pointed this out to me this morning. It is $685 assembled and $499 unassembled. I don't know what the discount would be. "A 3D Printer in every school. We're excited to announce our new Ambassador Program for schools. Our goal is to introduce 3D printing to students and teachers in the hope that you see the benefit and value of choosing Deltaprintr as your primary source for 3D printing technology."

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.

Hear the world like never before. Nature soundscapes and wildlife sounds from all over the planet.

Grade PK-6 share a leaping picture and perhaps connect with another class somewhere.

I thought this was pretty neat until I noticed Kerpoof on the list (which no longer exists). Still worth bookmarking.

"Teachers have told us they need a place to access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. Plus, they want accurate image citations. We've heard you and created "Photos For Class" to meet your needs for images! Thanks Mary-Alice and Barbara. Age Appropriate Images - All images are appropriate for the school setting, thanks to Flicker SafeSearch and our proprietary filters - Read More Automatic Citation - Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms - Read More Creative Commons - All photos shown are, to the best of our (and Flickr's) knowledge, licensed by Creative Commons for public use "

In-line with our last technology integrator meeting...this is a great article on how students can locate copyright-friendly images. Page 2 of the article shows how students can search google for "labeled for reuse" images and more!

Thank you. I added it to the RCAN Learns Creative Commons link.