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Visit the wiki site for Mrs. Carnazzo's class. She is an award winning 2nd grade teacher whose students use ipads to complete some really interesting projects. Take a look at the lessons and activities she features as well as the student work.

"Technology in education isn't just for older students. There are a ton of resources out there for early childhood educators and their students, and many young children are already able to use the technology available to them." via Edudemic. An infographic

Infuse learning, like Socrative, is a web-based learner response solution that can work on any internet-connected device.  With this solution, learner response is simple.  This is especially appropriate for the BYOD classroom.  This system allows the creation of "whiteboard" items where students draw their responses.

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!

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.

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.

Good article about the difficulties of online learning vs. traditional courses.

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

This online journal publishes science studies from experimental science by conducted high school students. via Best content in Sites_for_education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/sites_for_education

Google provides a variety of lesson plans and webinars aimed at helping you and your students become better searchers and evaluators of online resources.

In order to prepare students to be college and career ready in the 21st century, we must help them become adept and critical users of online research tools. Google offers excellent resources here to help meet this goal.

Infographics present complex information using an easy to understand graphic. Creating effective infographics demand a high-level understanding of a concept. A middle school teacher describes how she and her students use infographics in her classroom.

Tips from Teaching Channel: "Whether you're recording your own practice for self-reflection, or putting together a student lesson to "flip" your class, here are tips for making sure you capture and produce great material"

Whether you're recording your own practice for self-reflection, or putting together a student lesson to "flip" your class, here are tips for making sure you capture and produce great material: Keep the camera still. The action in your shot should ...

Haiku users can enable SMS text notifications in Haiku. If students enable this, they will be able to receive a text message when a teachers he's an announcement in the class.

Im this model lesson, students use iPads to respond to poetry with drawing and to share their work and turn it in to the teacher.

Proofread for Project Gutenberg; an excellent "real world" project for English students. Help preserve literature in digital form.

via Edudemic http://edudemic.com

This article is proposing that the students watch video lectures (prepared by the teacher or elsewhere) at home and come to school to work. This would keep students more actively engaged during class. This method would also provide more one-on-one time with the teacher as opposed to using all of the class time listening to the teacher.

via Edudemic http://edudemic.com

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The Memorial Hall Museum in Deefield, Massachusetts has an tremendously engaging website with a wide variety of interactive exhibits for teachers and students. You can watch colonial tools being used or use the sites "magic lens" and read historical documents.

TMS US History teachers may find this resource helpful!