Weekly Diigo Links (weekly)

• YouTube for Schools - YouTube

  Sign up for YouTube for Schools to bring the power of video to your classrooms for free. Access thousands of free high quality educational videos on YouTube in a controlled environment.

  Tags: Online_Learning_Environments, Teacher_Resources, Mathematics, Language_Arts, science, Social_Studies

  • - By Marc Patton

• Teaching Channel: Videos, Lesson Plans and Other Resources for Teachers

  Tags: resources, teaching, teachers, education

• Battelle for Kids

  Battelle for Kids is committed to transformational change in education that prepares all students for success in college, in the workforce, and in life.

  Tags: Online_Learning_Environments, Teacher_Resources

  • - By Marc Patton

• Teachers Use Twitter As Their Preferred CPD Tool - MentorMob

  "Inspired by my previous post about collaboration across Twitter, Jon (@TeamTait) Tait has been busy again with a new infographic on the topic:"

  Tags: Twitter, teacher, infographic, PD

  • - By Roland Gesthuizen

• technology4kids [licensed for non-commercial use only] / globalprojects

  Shell Terell website

  Tags: apps, portfolios, students, teachers, portfolio, ePortfolio, iPad, technology, kids, licensed, resources, review, tools, news

  • - By scottkinkoph

• Teachers Can Do Harm | transformED

  Teaching is a professional craft. Thinking that any high-scoring college student could come in and excel demeans it as a profession. No one would consider letting smart English majors perform surgery on low-income patients, or allowing cum laude math majors to do legal work for poor clients.

  Tags: resources, teacher_profession

  • - By Brianna Crowley
  • Teaching is a professional craft. Thinking that any high-scoring college student could come in and excel demeans it as a profession. No one would consider letting smart English majors perform surgery on low-income patients, or allowing cum laude math majors to do legal work for poor clients.
  • Stuffing under-prepared rookies’ ears with confidence and sending them into the fray doesn’t have a net neutral impact on our students or our national conversation on education.

• Why Women Still Can’t Have It All - The Atlantic

  Tags: teacher_profession, woman's_rights, social_change, atlantic

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• Technology "look for's" in teacher evaluations - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  Tags: teacher_evaluation, ed_tech

• Free Apps to Create Digital Portfolios for Students and Teachers

  Tags: apps, portfolios, iPad, students, teachers, portfolio, ePortfolio, news, resources, review, tools

  • Free Apps to Create Digital Portfolios for Students and Teachers

• The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have

  Tags: skills, teacher, resources, digital, digital citizenship

• The 50 Best Blogs for Future Teachers | Edudemic

  A great list...

  Tags: teachers, education, Blog

  • - By Steven Engravalle

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• The Widget Effect

  Tags: evaluation, teacher, education, edreform, professionaldevelopment, accountability, teaching, widget

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Facebook Friending 101 for Schools

  Facebook information for teachers and schools

  Tags: facebook, socialmedia, education, teacher, digitalcitizenship

  • - By Philip Pulley
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  • How does this impact Teachers?
    

• Sophia and the Flipped Classroom

  Become a certified flipped classroom teacher.

  Tags: flippedclassroom, sophia, flipped learning, blended instruction, certification, certified, education, technology, free, tools, resources, web2.0, teachers, interactive

  • - By Jason Schmidt

• Get your free 13-page Twitter Guide for Teachers | Powerful Learning Practice

  We’ve created the Twitter Handbook for Teachers, a brand new, interactive, 13-page guide to Twitter. This guide is for educators who are new to Twitter, or veterans to the social media platform who want to bring Twitter into their classrooms or grow their network. Is that you?

  Tags: twitter, guide, teachers, education, social-networking, PDF, download

  • - By Peter Beens

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: A New Workflow for Me: Ipad, Keyboard, iPhone

  Blog with resource information for iPad, iPhone and iPad keyboard.

  Tags: blog, ipad, keyboard, teacher

  • - By Philip Pulley
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  • I finished this post on my PC in the office because the Zemanta plug in
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  • and used the PowerTeacher

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• The Top 10 Apple iPod Touch Apps for English and Language Arts Teachers

  Tags: teachers, english, ipod touch

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Article on Online Courses

I read this really interesting article in the Boston Globe regarding online classes. It's worth a read!

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/05/21/findings-give-boost-online-classes/qtokLQeQZvE85EMzSBG6PM/story.html