The Teachers' Tech Lounge Exploring the wise use of tech to increase student achievement 

 100 Best You Tube Videos for Teachers

 62 Things You Can Do With Dropbox

  75 Interesting Ways to Use An iPad in the Classroom

  32 Interesting Ways to Use iPod Touch in the Classroom

iPad Resources for Administrators is a great place to look for any application that might make your job as an educational administrator a little bit easier.

Livebinder with Apps for School Administrators is another great collection of Apps suited for school principals and administrators.

Kathy Schrock\’s Guide to Everything is true to title and has information on everything from authentic learning to Twitter.  You will want to bookmark this site and check back often!

  Managing a Set of Classroom iPads

Scootpad.Com

From the web site…….To fundamentally change how kids learn & practice! At ScootPad, we believe each kid needs a customized practice & learning experience which is tailored to meet their individual needs. Today’s “one size fits all” approach is getting in the way of our kids’ academic success.

25 Links for Uncovering Project Based Learning Resources

Icebreakers from Improve Encyclopedia has a list of 28 ideas (with directions) for breaking the ice at meetings or to begin a new school year.

Brainpickings.Org

Brain Pickings is your LEGO treasure chest, full of pieces across art, design, science, technology, philosophy, history, politics, psychology, sociology, ecology, anthropology, you-name-itology. Pieces that enrich your mental pool of resources and empower you to combine them into original concepts that are stronger, smarter, richer, deeper and more impactful — a modest, curiosity-driven exercise in vision- and mind-expansion. Please enjoy.

  Shout Learning.Org 

Connect online to interact with experts in the field, share ideas, and collaborate with people around the world who, like you, are committed to solving environmental challenges. Shout gives participants a framework for success, with resources and tools for exercising social responsibility while building the 21st-century skills of collaboration, innovation, and critical thinking. When students are connected through technology and empowered to build activities in their own way the learning experience extends far beyond the four walls of a classroom. Check out the participants on the map and take your own stand in making the world a better place. Now that’s something to shout about!

 PDF Resources – Forms to Conversions 

  Active Presenter – Easily Create Screencasts allows you to record your computer screen with voice narration.

  100 Uses of a Document Camera

  Online Discussions: How to Engage Students

  are two great presentations sent to me from Blake Harris at FETC and presented by Jenna Linskens

  Get the Math

Get the Math is a multimedia project about algebra in the real world. See how professionals working in fashion, video game design, and music production use algebraic thinking. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers.

  Apple iBooks 2 Preview has a nice collection of screenshots to give an overview of the textbooks being offered through iTunes.

  Think Tac Toe 

 T-T-T is a form of alternative assessment and can be used with all grades and will all subjects. The idea is for students to work in groups and choose three projects to do. The top line are simple, the middle line are a bit more difficult and the bottom line are projects that would take several days to complete. Students can select their any of the three columns (which would include on project from each level),or they could choose either diagonal. Teachers may decide to assign particular projects to the groups.

  Earth Cam.Com has a live camera view of most of the major cities in the world.  Allows you to give students that true visual of what a place is like with real time views.

  The Futures Channel

hosts educational videos sorted by topic.  Best part – this site not blocked by most school filters.

Wolfram Alpha Education Portal  In the portal you’ll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts. You can take a look at the types of materials we offer below, but to get full access to all materials, you need to sign up for a free account.

  Power My Learning 

PowerMyLearning.com is a groundbreaking learning platform for teachers, students and parents that makes the best free digital learning activities on the web easily accessible and usable to meet the full range of K-12 learning needs.

  Clutter Free Classroom Blog has tips and resources for effective classroom and time management.

  Evernote for Education has forums, ideas, and resources to make Evernote even more useful to educators.

  Engineering Resources for Elementary STudents is a Livebinder created by Michelle Tona – Braden River Elementary.  Check out all the science resources for our younger learners.

  IEP App for Parents is a great tool to keep track of all the paperwork and meetings involved in the special education process.  Would also be a good app for school personnel to know.  It’s inevitable that it will start showing up at IEP meetings.