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Example of VoiceThread in the classroom. (Just keep closing the sign-in box if you don't want to create an account.)

"One of the most common questions we get is, "But where do we find the time to use all this new technology?" To answer that question, we developed this infographic - A Day in the Life of a Connected Educator to show that using social media in your classroom and in your life can be integrated, easy, and fun."

"This is a really big deal. For the first time in history it is easy for non-specialists to explore and closely examine art from museums across the globe on a single website.... Here are two examples of how the Google Art Project opens the conversation. In 1889, Vincent van Gogh painted three canvases depicting his bedroom in Arles; these now reside in three different museums. Only the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam illustrates another version on its website and remarkably, none of the three museums link to the paintings at the other institutions."

"Technology has become a core component of almost every facet of our daily lives but modernizing education requires significantly more commitment than simply providing students with access to technology." Sam Gliksman, iPads in Education ning

Tips and ideas for using audio in your classroom.

Lots of ideas, from interviews to collaboration to assessment.

QR code creator add-on for Firefox.

The big dog of the link shorteners.

Quick chatroom setup for back-channel conversation.

The pen that also records audio and its location on the page. Way cool.

More than 100 alternatives to static slideshows. Worth checking out. It's pretty much guaranteed to have something you've not seen before.

APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators to help teachers transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled the new "Digital Textbook Playbook," a resource designed by the Digital Textbook Collaborative to help guide educators in their transition to electronic resources and blended learning.

A physics professor at SLU uses free software to deconstruct the physics of Angry Birds. He measures velocity and acceleration over time using Tracker Video Analysis. Nice way to connect science to gaming...

If you've got an Android phone, you can easily build a program on it using this software. It uses a graphical programming interface that's quite simple to learn.

Smart post by Sam Gliksman on the reasons for classroom iPad use. A lot of what he says applies to technology in general.

Interesting possibility for replacement of paper maps, built on Google Map technology.

Lots more rubric examples out there... just go find 'em...

Lots of examples of rubrics for web, collaborative, and digital projects from the University of Wisconsin.