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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!

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Take a learning styles inventory. This should make you more aware of the ways you tend to present information in your classroom. It should also make you more aware of other things you should try to meet needs of students with different learning style other than yourself.

Federal agencies and organizations of all stripes collect, create, and publish educational resources that may be used in U.S. classrooms by teachers and students. In most cases, these resources are exempt from US copyright law. This site catalogs these resources by type, subject and more.

resources for individuals with special needs.  The site specializes in resources for students with autism-spectrum disorders.

Some helpful ideas for classroom management in the 1:1 classroom.

Digital Explorer is an organization that helps students learn about science and geography through the study of expeditions around the world. Digital Explorer publishes educational materials that are connected to expeditions. via Feedly Digital Explorer - Follow Expeditions and Learn About Science via Free Technology for Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Snap! is a drag and drop programming interface designed to help students learn to program. Snap! uses a visual interface that works in your browser on your laptop as well as on your iPad. To design a program in Snap! drag commands into a sequence ...

A review of apps that support creative work.

There is a wealth of research to suggest that vocabulary knowledge is the single best predictor of student academic achievement across all curriculum areas. via Feedly

This is a great idea for a simple anchor chart to prompt students to find alternative answers to "I don't know"

Practical advice in this blog entry from Edutopia.  Teachers could implement these suggestions immediately without much difficulty.   

A zoomable visual demonstration of scale.  Zoom in all the way to Plank length and out to the whole of the observable universe.   This would be an excellent jumping off point for student writing, discussion, and thinking in a science (or math) class.  Another wonderful interactive visual demonstration from Cary and Michael Huang.

Classroom collections are ideal for teachers to use in helping students understand concepts. Each resource set includes an outstanding selection of interactives, games, videos and learning tools. via Feedly

RADCAB - Steps for Online Information Evaluation "RADCAB" ™ A mnemonic acronym for information evaluation Created by Karen M. Christensson, M.S. Library Media Education via Feedly

A nice site and resources for helping students (of any age) evaluate information sources. This is critical for CCSS and information literacy.

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.

Project-based learning is becoming increasingly popular as teachers look for a way to make lessons stick in the minds of their students. This is a nice list of some of the best resources on the internet for PBL. From TeachThought

This brand new FREE service provides excellent news-style current event articles on a variety of topics that are written at multiple levels of text complexity. You can adjust the Lexile level of the text with a few clicks! Teachers can create student accounts and assign texts. Each text has a built in quiz linked to CCSS standards. This tool should be very valuable for any teacher trying to meet CCSS standards for informational texts while addressing differentiated reading needs among her students. Take a look and let me know what you think. Here's looking at you TPSD 6-12 teachers!

In this video from the Teaching Channel, you will see teachers demonstrating the strategies they use to help student engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others'€™ ideas and expressing their own clearly.