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"Sign up for Code Year to start receiving a new interactive programming lesson every Monday. You'll be building apps and websites before you know it!"

GLSL Studio is an iPad app that makes it easy for you to learn and code games right on your iPad

mobile app development lesson plans

great resource for iPad apps and howto info

"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets." Also, has apps available!

A great company w/ apps for Mac and Win to make games

Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.A nice free site that allows users to learn to code for creating websites, games, apps, etc.  This is done in step by step instructions and a user can track their progress.

Great research on future jobs

Great blog post by a CS teacher, but applicable to all HS Tech Apps courses in digital citizenship discussions, especially intellectual property!

iPad game that teaches programming concepts

This report was used to form the basis for the new DM course in Tech Apps.

tips for using Google apps

Free! METRYX is a formative assessment tool that allows teachers to "track, analyze, and differentiate" students across any number of customizable skill sets. Teachers can import class rosters and any number of skill sets via a CSV file, and then individually track students across each skill set as they perform various classroom activities. The granularity of these activities is completely at the discretion of the teacher, though Metryx appears especially useful for project-based learning, skills demonstration, and other activities where multiple-choice assessment data can't fully convey student progress.