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Some helpful ideas for classroom management in the 1:1 classroom.

Awesome article about 1-to-1 and management

Great article with good insight from those in 1:1 schools/districts. There are many approaches I like and agree with here, from setting clear expectations to essentially partnering with tech-savvy students vs. viewing them as adversaries.

This free online course provides interactive tutorials covering the Promethean Learner Response System for ActivInspire 1.6. 

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/

This is an excellent collection of short videos demonstrating real classrooms with real teachers and real students.   There are currently 157 clips in the Common Core topic across all grades and subject areas.  There are great teaching ideas here. The videos of lessons also often include the materials for the lesson such as lesson plans, handouts, slides, etc.

This article outlines the pros of using Ipads in the classroom.

If you're a faithful reader, you know that I have some concerns with the Common Core State Standards. At the moment, however, I am tasked to teach an Algebra course that is aligned to those standards, so I'm trying to make it the best experience p...

Nicely organized Wiki aligning apps to Marzano's effective instructional strategies, organized by tool type, and organized by task.

Interactive game where you match the questions about the respiratory system to the answers. A picture and fun fact are revealed when all facts are correctly matched.

7 Steps to BYOT Here's what Georgia's Forsyth County Schools recommends when thinking about implementing BYOT. (Find more at www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/byot.) 1. Think carefully about your goals. 2. Survey students about what gadgets they own. 3. Get buy-in from parents and the community. 4. Determine rules for personal devices, and make sure everyone is clear on them. 5. Test connectivity by inviting students to bring in their devices. 6. Ask students about their experiences with their own gadgets. 7. Plan how you can use BYOT to develop fun, challenging activities for students.

Amazing collection of historical maps digitized. Be sure to look at the Google Earth integration! via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

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. 

part of a four part youtube video series on genetics. Very good

Cute art Activity to go along with flowers. Great for Mother's Day!

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.