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A good basic overview of how to make a Common Craft Style explanation video.

good intro to writing personal essays -- all the best advice in a snazzy Animoto video

Kranky Kids a useful site for multimedia work in the classroom

This site has tutorials and lesson ideas for using Diigo in education.

yellow fire hydrant spraying water

The original HD fire hydrant image.

this is particular good for Asian Fonts QR Code (Generator)

中华语文知识库

great example of students writing their own books on the ipad

Historical public domain images.

This is why you should be on Twitter - what's obvious to you, is amazing to others. Great little video. 

"Technology keeps changing the routes we take to get our projects from here to there. It doesn't pay to memorize the route, because it's going to change soon. The compass, on the other hand, is more important then ever. If you don't know which direction you're going, how will you know when you're off course?"

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Word Walls are an effective strategy for building vocabulary with students, especially for subject-specific terms. These lists are usually posted on classroom walls and sometimes have a definition attached to them. A more interactive word wall that includes images requires students to be more active learners as they attach meaning to each of the words in the list. Teachers may post these in the classroom after first using them as teaching tools when introducing a concept.

This is a game that explores the Isreal/Palistein conflict.

something to help teachers monitor what kids in their classroom are doing on Google Apps

"What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social MediaThis page contains resources from the ASB Unplugged 2012 Leadership Institute in Mumbai, India. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact Drs. Scott McLeod or Jayson Richardson if you have any other questions about these resources."

A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free. Could be interesting?

Create fake text message conversations. Useful for Social Studies and English