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Kid's Health article on Bronchiolitis.

Kid friendly article on smoking and how it affects us. Several other useful related links included in the site.

In this article, grant wiggins provides a clear explication of close reading, one of the key terms in understanding the Common Core State Standards for English language Arts. This is definitely worth a "close" read.

Good article on BYOD

via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups http://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation This article reviews several productivity apps for time management and task management from a student's perspective.

Good article outlining the similarities and differences of ferns and gymnosperms. The screenshots capture the main points.

This article talks about how teachers and students can productively use cell phones in class. It also explains how teacher/parent relationships can be improved through the use of cell phones.

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!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a Thinglink image may be worth 1000 pictures.  Thinglink is a great FREE tool that enables one to create dynamic interactive images that have embedded hyperlinks to other images, wikipedia articles, videos, websites, audio recordings, or almost anything else.  The image can then be embedded in your website or Haiku class, projected etc.  Easy to use.

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.

This article talks about various questioning skills used by elementary school teachers.

This is an excellent visual guide to Diigo focused on teachers.   The article clearly shows the power of Diigo as a tool for collaboration and curation around digital resources.   

This article provides a strong analysis of two kinds of roles teachers might choose to take on in an online classroom discussion.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?  Which would you choose?

This article provides a nice list of strategies and sentence starters to help students continue the conversation in an online discussion.

Good in depth article explaining Earth's rotation/revolution.

The article raises some interesting questions, though its focus on Austrailian law may confuse the issue for a US audience.

This article outlines what it takes to be an online instructor.

Good article about what it takes to be a successful online student.

This article provides a good introduction to and explanation of the flipped classroom model; includes links a number of web tools.

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.