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The article is mostly an interview with Covenant Eyes, who makes accountability software and recently produced a free e-book for parents. I downloaded it to check it out and ended up reading the first four chapters just today. Chapters are short and include discussion questions. For a non-WELS resource, so far they do a fairly good job of being gospel-centered/grace-driven. Looks like a great resource.

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.

A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents.

Jerry Blumengarten is a 'Cybrarian' who maintains a vast website including over 20,000 links to educational resources and activities. If you are looking for it, chances are good that Jerry has it! Excellent stuff.

A fun way to teach reluctant people how to do basic tasks with computers.

Grant Wrangler® is a free grant listing service offered by Nimble Press™. We make it easier for educators, school libraries, and parents to find school funding. We list grants for teachers, school grants, and money for arts, history, mathematics, science, technology, literacy, and more. We also help education foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations, and other grant-giving organizations more effectively promote their grants and awards to teachers and schools

From the CLS eNews 10/29/14 - In order to promote Christian education and the role their school plays in offering it to young children, St. John's in Neillsville, Wis. posts a quaterly video to their Web site. The St. John's Connection highlights Pre-K through 8th grade events throughout the quarter and gives parents and prospective families insight as to what St. John's has to offer its students.

A mostly web-based music curriculum that teachers in the KML federation took a look at a couple of months ago.  Get a bunch of schools together to look at and and they just might bring food.  They had Panera cater a meal for during the presentation!

How-to document for setting up RSS feeds for podcasting.

In order to help some of my struggling reading students, I'm having my students record our week's memory work in GarageBand, then distributing it as a podcast. Students and parents can subscribe to the feed and use this auditory support to help with memorization. This page is the tutorial that I'm using to set up the feed.

Use this tool to allow people to book times on your Google Calendar.

Great tool - maybe a way to schedule conferences? I'll try it this fall and let you know how it goes!

Take a look at PicKATime for conference scheduling. Ours is up right now so you could look at it on our site - emanuelnl.org/school Works great and parents love it; not free through. $50 a conference. We think it is worth it. The secretary sets it all up and teachers have access and see their own scheduled conference times. I find youcanbook me works well for teachers setting up individual conference tmes with me for purposes of their tech growth planning throughout the year.