UWCSEA Teachers

"Literably scores oral reading assessments. Get regular, accurate information on your students' reading."

Nice blog post by George Couros, worth a read for his 2 cents on the debate between public/private, personal/professional.

A variety of apps for taking digital notes.  Check the comments too - some good ideas there.

Wendy Gorton's session on Reading & Writing workshop from the Google Apps Summit in Singapore

Andrew McCarthy's site with useful info on using tech for formative assessment.

This is a guide to holding a Turtle Art coding event

Numbeo is the world's largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. Numbeo provides current and timely information on world living conditions including cost of living, housing indicators, health care, traffic, crime and pollution.

"Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface. Sugar promotes "studio thinking" and "reflective practice". Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms. Students can reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and exploration is grounded in the culture of free software (FLOSS)."

"Sadly, however, the wider educational impact of wiring up schools and homes and giving computers to kids has been disappointing. "

Typographic Dating Game - learn how to match fonts with different strategies. Beautiful design and informative too!