Educational Insights Helping Teachers Locate Technology Today 

Top 10 Ways to Embed Video in a Web Page has the best ways to embed to blogs, wikis, etc…

Defined STEM  Defined STEM is a web-based application designed to promote rigorous and relevant connections between classroom content, highlighting STEM content and real-world applications including career pathways, thus providing learning opportunities for students. Defined STEM provides teachers a resource where they can access highly effective media content and valuable resources to enhance the teaching and learning within the classroom. These resources and materials allow teachers to connect STEM with existing lessons, interdisciplinary content, and standards-based curriculum.

Collection of Common Core Livebinders has links to resources from different states and school districts compiled into Livebinders.

Next Generation Science Standards at TN Curriculum Center has a preview of new science standards being looked at in 26 Common Core states.  

Cloud Sync Storage Face Off

Wondering which cloud storage site to use?  Here’s an article that compares the major players.

Differentiating Instruction Using Keys for Learning is a presentation that helps teachers increase the rigor of their questions and probes deeper into the learning standards using “Keys”.  

Crayon Physics

What makes Crayon Physics so entertaining is that there are a number of different ways to solve each level, thanks to the fact that no one is going to draw the same things in exactly the same way. It requires players to be creative and solve each puzzle through whatever means they can conceive, as opposed to only having one convoluted method as the only solution.

You can download a demo version free but you must purchase the full version of the game.

Word Game Time

Word Game Time is your destination for the best language arts games and homework help
online. Our games are FREE, fun, trustworthy and approved by educators.

Word Game Time was created to help kids succeed.  Our goal is to provide a fun educational playground for students in Kindergarten through 7th grade to excel in spelling, typing, reading, geography and language arts.

Yes, There\’s an App for That is a slideshare presentation with many App reviews by subject area.

15 Stories of Flipped Classrooms shows several examples of how teachers can offer instruction to students digitally and spend class time working on key concepts and ideas.

Ohio Common Core Resources includes model curriculum (created by teachers) by grade levels to go with English/Language Arts Common Core Standards.

Ohio Common Core Resources for Math also contains model curriculum by grade level.

Science of Baseball has facts and trivia about baseball and relates it to science concepts.  While there is not a lot of teacher resources, you could use this as a model for project based learning using sports, math, and science.

Building Big from PBS

Bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams, and tunnels take center stage on PBS with BUILDING BIG, a five-part miniseries on megastructures, hosted by renowned author-illustrator David Macaulay. BUILDING BIG explores the history behind some of the world’s greatest feats of engineering and the ingenuity of the engineers, architects, and builders who designed and built them.  Check out the labs and activities related to this series.

Powerful Learning Practices Network

Ongoing, job-embedded professional development for 21st Century educators

Built around social media and Web 2.0 tools – to keep you up to speed with the changing technology and what your students are using every day

Made up of intensive, organic, learner-directed, collaborative communities of practice and purposeful network connections

Focused on leveraging emerging technologies as tools for deep learning and principled change – this works whether you participate as an individual, in small teams, or as a school.

  Smore Online Publishing helps you quickly create and share beautiful pages – both online and to print.