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This article breaks down lung cancer causes and treatments.

A teacher's description of her experience using a reading workshop model with her students in a science lesson. There are some great ideas here.

Insignio is a database of educational apps for mobile devices focused on bridging the gap between technology and individuals with disabilities.  The reviews include a description of the app, a rating, skills embedded in the app, and other important information.

As the title suggests, this site provides one or two sentence descriptions and large annotated screenshots of some of the best and most popular Chrome apps and extensions out there. With these tools you can turn your browser into a powerhouse application. Take a look! Some of my favorites are the Diigo Web Collector, Save to Google Drive, and Readability.

100+ Best Chrome Apps and Extensions http://t.co/biDmSpMNVR - John Robinson (@21stprincipal) October 12, 2013

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others. More...

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.