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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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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 ...

Via Free Technology for Teachers and Richard Byrne: "Dictionary Bubble is a free Chrome extension that provides definitions and synonyms for any word that you double-click in an online article. The extension will also provide an audio pronunciation of the words on which you double-click."

Article on Plagiarism with real-life examples

Great article! I think the advice here about teaching students digital research skills is absolutely critical; combatting plagiarism is a nice side-effect of this.

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

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.

As the title suggests, this site provides one or two sentence descriptions and large annotated screenshots of some of the best and most popular Chrome apps and extensions out there. With these tools you can turn your browser into a powerhouse application. Take a look! Some of my favorites are the Diigo Web Collector, Save to Google Drive, and Readability.

100+ Best Chrome Apps and Extensions http://t.co/biDmSpMNVR - John Robinson (@21stprincipal) October 12, 2013

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.

From @NCTM, these math challenges are designed to bring mathematical thinking to the dinner table for families.  Teachers will also find many of these problems valuable to tackle with students to support problem solving skills and mathematical practices.  The challenges are also available in Spanish.

Educators share their stories about becoming "Connected Educators" in this Edutopia community forum.

Close Reading Common Core-aligned lesson sets with explanatory annotations; grade levels k-12

Thanks Mr Turner! What a great resource. I hope you don't mind, but I added a few tags to your post to help make it searchable.

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.

Executive function stimulation: include questions in homework and tests that require mathematics communication. via Feedly

6 Days and 78 Resources for Digital Literacy Internet Safety There are links to great examples of resources that can be used to teach kids how to stay safe online and develop digital literacy

via Education Week (@educationweek) September 17, 2013

Readworks.org is a reputable source of excellent lesson plans and reading passages focused on teaching reading comprehension.  This fall, they are developing over 1000 new CCSS aligned and Lexile-leveled non-fiction and literary passages and question sets.  This free resource will be an excellent supplement for teachers.

Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Good Places for Students to Find Public Domain Images via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation