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Catlin Tucker is a public high school English teacher, blogger, and google certified teacher.   She is an expert in using technology to support engaged learning in the English classroom.  This is her keynote from a recent educational technology event where she talks about she is meeting the challenge of the Common Core in her classroom.  If you teach English, you will definitely want to follow her blog and follow her on twitter @CTuckerEnglish

The Google Science Fair is on for 2013!  The competition is open to students from ages 13-18 from around the world.  It is free to enter!  Be sure to check out some of the previous years' winners and their projects.  Wow!

I've had a LOT of traffic on a Google Document that I created last year while exploring the Common Core State Standards.

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

A nice set of ideas and tools for using comics in the classroom

This article from Alan November discusses "web literacy" and the kinds of skills essential for digitally literate students and where these skills are found in the Common Core State Standards.   He makes a compelling argument for teaching these skills to students and provides some ideas about how it may be accomplished.

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.

Middle School Science!

Take a virtual field trip to art museums around the world. Get "up close and personal" with works of art. High-resolution images allow users to zoom in to see individual brush strokes. Rich information is included. An education section includes lesson plans and ideas for how to use the site in the classroom.

Love this! This is one of my favorites. Perfect for the interactive whiteboard.

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

Videos and tutorials for software - small charge to access