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This video and article who how an award winning teacher uses an amazing example of digital storytelling from the New York Times to teach about the "future of storytelling" to his middle school students and to inspire their own multimedia digital stories.  Check it out!

A really interesting "heat map" visualization showing which birth dates are most common.   What kind of writing could this inspire?  What is the next idea? Could students take another data set and create a map like this based upon birthdates in their own school?  Maybe with local weather data (which days have the most precipitation?) 

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.

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.

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.