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Share this site with a teacher who is new or looking to incorporate more technology into his or her instruction. Lots of fantastic resources!

Richard Byrne (www.freetech4teachers.com) has created lots of great free resources for teachers.

Lots of links for classroom and professional development resources.

Blog post pointing to tutorial/quiz for using Google Earth. Great resource for teachers looking to integrate this tool into classroom instruction.

A good summary of creative commons and how teachers can use it in their classrooms.

via Diigo in Education group.

Gotta love e-books, right? Lots of web 2.0 tools here.

Trying to connect kids all over the globe. Interesting idea from a couple of my friends here in Omaha.

Some good ideas for some of our smaller schools where you might be a teacher/basketball coach/IT director/janitor/helpdesk/crossing-guard all in one?

A sample video created with PowToon's new teacher-centric template - Use it to model your own introduction to your class

Thanks Roman Johnson for the share!

Learned about the Crash Course World History video series from free technology for Teachers - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/10/37-crash-course-history-videos.html

Salman Khan outlines the new direction education enabled by technology should go. Would this approach help transform and rescue our Lutheran schools from a slow death AND enable a truly global outreach? Teacher as coach and guide . . .

1:1 iPads in grades 7 & 8 at Salem LES in Greefield, MN!!! Teacher Jon Beilke

Suggested by CoolCatTeacher Vicki Davis; She uses it for multiple things in her classroom: 20%/Genius Hour projects/tracking, Suggestions from kids on what they want her to teach, etc. Mentioned here: http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2013/04/7-key-ingredients-in-successful-21st.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoolCatTeacherBlog+%28Cool+Cat+Teacher+Blog%29

Recap of this week's keynote at the FETC Conference in Orlando by Jaime Casap, Global Education Evangelist at Google. He told attendees about the ways technology has -- and will continue to -- change K-12 education. Among other things, Casap said technology is causing students to learn in new ways and is providing them with almost constant access to information. The changing landscape, Casap said, makes it even more important for teachers to have access to professional development and for there to be a focus on digital leadership in schools.

YouCanBook.Me is an appointment scheduling tool that works with Google Calendar. We are looking for a solution for scheduling home visits and parent/teacher conferences. This might work well!

I used this for home visits this past summer and it worked great. For me, the only drawback was less control over scheduling. I was criss-crossing the county a couple of days because they pick the days and times, but otherwise it worked well for me and it was really easy. The parents thought it was easy too.