12 Digital Tools to Implement Exit Slips gives teachers links to fast and easy ways to use technology for assessing student learning with exit slips.

Here are links to two posters that classroom teachers can print and post on Internet safety (from iSafe).

Elementary/Middle Poster

Middle School/High School Poster

Quick Picture Tools  This site offers 12 simple and easy online image editing tools.

5 Ways to Show Your iPad on a Projector Screen is a great article from Tony Vincent’s “Learning in Hand” blog.

Christmas is celebrated in a multitude of rich and cherished traditions. This illustrated timeline, brought to you by Balsam Hill Christmas Tree Company, captures the flow of some of the most popular Christmas traditions and figures throughout Christmas History.

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I love, love, love Evernote, and this new guide has great tips to make the user experience even more productive.

Teachers Guide to Keeping Students Safe Online has some practical tips for online safety that teachers can integrate into their classroom instruction.

Big Huge Labs has dozens of creative tools students can use to showcase learning.

Tagxedo is a program that takes the words you input and creates word clouds in the shades of pictures.

Nanooga is an online platform for younger students to show what they know with words and pictures.  It is a much friendlier platform than PowerPoint and students can host their creations on the web site.

Xtranormal is a storytelling site where students can turn their words and images into a video.

  25 of the Best Pinterest Boards in Education has links to great technology and educational Pinterest boards.

Holiday Educational Apps for Kids If PJs and a cup of coffee is your idea of holiday shopping, then look no further than the AppStore when finding gifts for your technology-craving children.

Beanstalk is a game that focuses on explicitly teaching balance to the player, as they must plant flowers to counter balance the different bugs falling onto the plank.  This is another good online game for science and STEM activities.

Rumble Blocks is a  game is designed to teach children ages 4-11 how to build and identify stable structures. In the game, players must build towers by manipulating a series of blocks in order to help a friendly alien creature get to its spaceship so it can return to home.  Great for the engineering component of STEM!

Meograph helps easily create, watch, and share interactive stories. It combines maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories in context of where and when.  It is truly 4-dimensional story telling.

Rhyme & Learn web site has videos with math and science raps to help students understand complex processes.

Fakebook Gallery has profiles of historical figures and simulations as to what their “Facebook” or Fakebook pages would look like.  Great place to give students ideas to do a similar project.

Mapping Media to the Curriculum – What do you want to create today?   This site has visual icons you can click to find places to create curriculum content, assessments, and publish online.

Dozens of Ways Teachers Can Use Pinterest has ideas from bulletin boards to designing virtual field trips.

Invent It Challenge is a project from ePals Global Community.  Students and teachers can register by Jan. 5.

	Challenge 1: Think about a problem in your school (or one in your ePals friend’s school) and come up with an invention to solve it.
	Challenge 2: Find an invention that is used in your school and tell us how you would improve upon it.
	Challenge 3: Find a real-world problem and come up with an invention to solve it.

Beyond the Bubble   unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create a new generation of history assessments. Developed by the Stanford History Education Group (http://sheg.stanford.edu),  the site offers easy-to-use assessments that capture students’ knowledge in action – rather than their recall of discrete facts.

Project Red is a research study on the implications of technology in learning and student achievement.  In addition, there are resources available for all school stakeholders on implementing change through 1:1 technology implementation.

 Why U You Tube Channel has animated tutorials in math and science.  This site is best suited for middle and high school.

Tony Vincent (Learning in Hand blog) has an excellent PDF on ways to project your iPad images onto a screen or interactive whiteboard.  Click below for the PDF.

Ways to Display iPad