RCAN Shared

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."

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.

Interactive Fruit Machine from Classtools.net

Countdown timer from Classtools.net.

Symbaloo webmix of Sphero apps.

Student created story in StoryBird.

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

"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."

Free summer math program shared with me by another teacher. I do not have experience with it, but there might be some value in it.

"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."

"International Dot Day, a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration, began when teacher Terry Shay introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds' book The Dot on September 15, 2009. The Dot is the story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to "make her mark". What begins with a small dot on a piece of paper becomes a breakthrough in confidence and courage, igniting a journey of self-discovery and sharing, which has gone on to inspire countless children and adults around the globe. And each year on International Dot Day - with the help of people just like you -the inspiration continues. What started as a story in the pages of a book is transforming teaching and learning around the world as people of all ages re-discover the power and potential of creativity in all they do. "

Common Sense Education video about the SAMR model that we saw together.

Group collaboration website for private sharing. Must be 13 or older as part of the terms of service.

A friend shared: "When some Kindergarten teachers at [his school] asked [me] to find a web tool to help their students create simple drawings and write sentences below them, I searched but found nothing. So, I asked ABCYa's Alan Tortolani (a friend of mine) if he could come up with something. Here's the result. Kids love it! Printed output looks great. Perfect for early writers and artists!

Students can create stories using visual images contributed by artists. Teachers can sign up for free classroom account

A Google Site to both catch up on 2014-2015 learning and prepare for the 2015-2016 school year.

A wheel that includes verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy with activities that can be enhanced with technology as well as suggested apps aligned with the SAMR model.

Macrolab for programming the Sphero.