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Powerpoint on Life Cycle of a Star

In this short screencast, a teachers shows how she adds voice comments to google docs when giving feedback on student writing. Pretty simple! The video is hosted on YouTube, so access from the faculty wireless network or an off-campus network will be required to view.

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...

A collection of activities from Spelling City related to Women's History month

Amazing collection of historical maps digitized. Be sure to look at the Google Earth integration! via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

quick and easy site for root words and prefixes

This is a powerful Prezi demonstrating the power of Prezi.   Very nicely done with a few really good tips about how to get started with Prezi.  Check it out!

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.

Awesome article about 1-to-1 and management

Great article with good insight from those in 1:1 schools/districts. There are many approaches I like and agree with here, from setting clear expectations to essentially partnering with tech-savvy students vs. viewing them as adversaries.