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In this video from the Teaching Channel, you will see teachers demonstrating the strategies they use to help student engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others'€™ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

The Teacher Channel aims to provide innovative videos and resources to educators to meet its goals of building teacher-driven professional learning, deepening and improving opportunities for teacher learning, and elevating and celebrating teachers in society. The website includes a growing collection of videos that focus on the Common Core State Standards, some of which focus on the background of the Common Core in certain grades/subjects, while others highlight instructional practices aligned to specific standards. 

Well outlined article on diseases of circulatory system

Just experimenting with the highlighter tool! Love it!

This article outlines different ways journaling can be useful in elementary science classes.

Why not use Haiku for students to keep their journals? Discussions or Wikiprojects in Haiku could be used for this. In fact, the Bridge Building teams at Tupelo Middle School are using Wikiprojects to keep their journals, collect their data, and compose their portfolios for competition.

Good point. Wiki/discussion boards are great for students to converse back and forth and work collaboratively in groups, but there are a few advantages to the old fashioned type journal as well. Drawings as well as charts and graphs for science are sometimes more beneficial to student learning and expression when done on paper and pencil. Ultimately, you would want to have both. It is also important to note that with the software we have available on the Macs, you could use the Photo Booth to capture drawings and graph and upload them to Haiku/Wiki or wherever you were sharing/storing them electronically.

via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups http://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation As the title says, this article reviews some of the better options for annotating PDF files on the iPad. This is useful for providing feedback on student writing or work, filling or signing PDF forms, and more. Check it out!

Create your own "twitter wall" to project a back channel for your next PD session or event.   This site makes it easy to follow the conversation on twitter around a hashtag of your choice.   The Video-Twitterwall is also interesting, allowing one to embed a video from Youtube or another video service into your twitterwall

Snap! is a drag and drop programming interface designed to help students learn to program. Snap! uses a visual interface that works in your browser on your laptop as well as on your iPad. To design a program in Snap! drag commands into a sequence ...

To some the electric slide may just be a novelty dance. Astute readers of technology blogs will know that this Electric Slide happens to be a application that allows visitors to wirelessly present their PowerPoint slides, documents, and videos using just their iPhone or iPad. First-time visitors can watch an instructional video and then go ahead and get started. The Features area contains details on the operations of the program and the Help section offers up some useful suggestions. This version is compatible with all operating systems running iOS 5.1.1 and newer. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2013. https://www.scout.wisc.edu/

Great article especially for those just beginning to incorporate Google Drive

Agreed! Thanks Dorie. Also, with Google Docs integration in Haiku, students can "turn in" google docs to a Haiku assignment. All of the sharing is then handled automatically, and you, as the teacher, can launch, comment, and annotate the students work from within Haiku. This makes it very convenient! Likewise, if you add a google doc to a content block in Haiku, it will automatically be shared with the students in that Haiku class. When you add it, you may choose whether to grant viewing, commenting, or editing permissions on the doc to the students in the class. Then students can launch that document directly from your Haiku class. Google Docs + Haiku makes managing assignments in Google Docs/Drive much easier.

One other thought: Bypassing Haiku for a minute, I have also read about teachers using a google form to "collect" assignments in Google Drive. Students "turn in" their assignments by completing a short form with their name and a title and description of the assignment. Then they paste the document url into the form. That way, the teacher has a spreadsheet with each student's name and a direct link to their assignment. So, the teacher can go line by line through the spreadsheet and grade and annotate each student's assignment. I thought this was a clever solution.

TED Education is the education site for the TED organization. TED has short videos showcasing some of the most interesting and inspiring thinkers, innovators, scientists, and artists on the web. In this case, James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA explains the circumstances of his discovery. TED Education lessons provide lesson plans to help students think and write critically about the media, an important skill in CCSS.

In this short screencast, a teachers shows how she adds voice comments to google docs when giving feedback on student writing. Pretty simple! The video is hosted on YouTube, so access from the faculty wireless network or an off-campus network will be required to view.

What is this thing, this periodic table? It's a crucial part of chemistry, and millions of students encounter this fine and elegant visualization of substances every year. Professor Norman Herr has created this helpful trove of resources and links that can be used by both teachers and students. The items here are divided into four sections: Online Periodic Tables, Tables for Printing, Periodic Table Powerpoint Presentations, and Classroom and Laboratory Activities to Build Understanding of the Periodic Table. The first section here offers five great dynamic versions of the periodic tables, complete with helpful links to outside resources and related materials. Also, the Classroom and Laboratory Activities area includes two fun activities, one presents the colors of the periodic table and the other is a chapter from the b ook "Hands-on Chemistry." From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2013. https://www.scout.wisc.edu/

The National Young Arts Foundation has collaborated with Teachers College Columbia University to create a study guide based on the HBO MasterClass series. Pursuing Your Passions is a study guide can be used in various K-12 educational settings and it offers educators a chance to embrace arts education in the classroom. Interested educators can access all the lessons and multimedia elements on the project's website and also request a free DVD copy of the study guide and the entire first season of the Emmy nominated HBO MasterClass.

How to take a screenshot on iPad ? This is a question I have been asked so very often and the only answer I have is the traditional way I have always been using on my iPad 4.

Kathy Schrock is an educational technologist with a wealth of experience and ideas to share. The Schrock Guide to Everything is Kathy Schrock's most up-to-date space and it includes a wealth of information. See especially her guide to "creating a Personal Learning Network."

Kathy Shcrock is one of my favorite edtech "gurus." I never read her blog or visit her site without learning something new and bringing home a new idea or "gem" to share. Take a look, and see if you agree.

With 100 specialized search engines for academic research listed, you are certain to find some new ones.   Some of my favorites are included in this list.  The list is organized into helpful catagories by subject or discipline.   One of my favorites for History is listed here, the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.  The collection has over 30,000 images, searchable by keyword.

The Technology Integration Matrix from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology is one of the best resources available to drive better thinking on technology integration in the classroom.  The matrix considers 5 levels of technology integration and 5 characteristics of the learning environment.  Short videos of classroom practice in four core content areas illustrate each cell in the matrix. 

Great list of graphic organizers. Some are similar to our "Thinking Maps." Other good ones on here as well. Great for prewriting!

From the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, a suite of "Core Math Tools," digital tools that can be used by students to model math problems for algebra and functions, geometry and trigonometry, and statistics and probability. These tools can be downloaded and run on any computer, but will not work on mobile devices.