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Language: Material Type: Activities and Labs, Interactive Media Format: Graphics/Photos, Interactive, Text/HTML Technical requirements: Shockwave Player required Abstract: Doodle Splash combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online drawing with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between their visual designs and the text.

Drawing tutorial site I would share with our art teachers

Although this TAG is a broad choice, I think the it would suit any classroom setting. I think a major draw to this source would be its alignment to the common core. I would introduce this source to teachers in a professional development setting, as well as refer to it in my own collaborative teaching efforts. (Now I just need to remember all my passwords and usernames for these sites.) :)

This lesson could work with the presidential campaign. High school level. Students consider a visual text and draw conclusions based on what they see. They explain their conclusions by explaining the evidence used to make that determination.

This is an online course that would be excellent to use with our 8th graders who are learning robotics and Scratch right now. Engaging them in several different types of basic coding activities can help show how the elements of computer programming are constant whether they are working in javascript or RobotC or Scratch, though the terminology might vary a little. This can help prepare them for more advanced programming classes in HS.