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The National Young Arts Foundation has collaborated with Teachers College Columbia University to create a study guide based on the HBO MasterClass series. Pursuing Your Passions is a study guide can be used in various K-12 educational settings and it offers educators a chance to embrace arts education in the classroom. Interested educators can access all the lessons and multimedia elements on the project's website and also request a free DVD copy of the study guide and the entire first season of the Emmy nominated HBO MasterClass.

How to take a screenshot on iPad ? This is a question I have been asked so very often and the only answer I have is the traditional way I have always been using on my iPad 4.

How computer games can be used to teach different topics

Nice. There is a lot of interesting research in this area. One place to follow some of the latest research is the Game Learning Society at UW-Madison. http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/ Read about some of the interesting games they have developed. http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/games.php

Via Free Technology for Teachers and Richard Byrne: We know that using nonlinguistic representations for new vocabulary supports student learning. In this post, edtech Blogger Richard Byrne provides quick reviews of five free online dictionaries and thesauri that will help teachers and students find images to connect to words and their definitions.

Richard Byrne, edtech blogger, describes how to use ready-made scripts and templates in Google Docs to generate flashcards from a Google Spreadsheet.

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"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

ActivExpression ActivTips for teaching. Examples of how to use clickers in the classroom beyond "simple" multiple choice.

A collection of statistical data sets from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.  Perfect for teaching Common Core Standards related to data analysis.   Use the free NCTM data analysis or spreadsheet app to work with the data.   

From the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, a suite of "Core Math Tools," digital tools that can be used by students to model math problems for algebra and functions, geometry and trigonometry, and statistics and probability. These tools can be downloaded and run on any computer, but will not work on mobile devices.

In this article, a writing teacher describes why she uses Goigle docs when teaching writing.

A great collection of posts for teachers on the many valuable uses of google forms.

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.

By allowing students to use their own technology on campus we are hoping to increase the access all students have to the technology they need to succeed.

Read about the large collection of public domain images made available through a partnership between Google and Life magazine. via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

via Edudemic http://edudemic.com another good source for free educational videos.

This article outlines the pros of using Ipads in the classroom.

Good interactive site on rotation/revolution