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Imagine your campus as an innovative mobile application that instantly connects your school with parents, students, and community.


Include a tutoring schedule, athletic, Fine Arts schedules, and calendars that can be downloaded so parents and students will always have schedules in hand.

Allow students and parents to e-mail teachers and administrators in one click.

Include your Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter accounts

PBL

My district is making the shift toward PBL, or Project Based Learning. The ninth grade has implemented their first year and next year, the Junior High English department will be tackling the task as well. We went to Manor New Tech for training.  I thought I would share a website that allows for PBL checklists to be created...

http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/index.shtml

Student Movie for Gathering Blue

Pre AP Project: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowrey

Lab Outloud!

Here's one for you science nerds!!
Lab Out Loud is a podcast, hosted by two science teachers, that discusses science news and science education by interviewing leading scientists, researchers, science writers and other important figures in the field.

Watch Hunting the Elements Promo on PBS. See more from NOVA.

Save Paper! Use SurveyLegend!

Engage Socratively!

Engage the class using any device Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Working "in the cloud!"

If your district is like ours, money is TIGHT! We are moving away from First Class and toward Google everything!! This has been a frustrating experience which I am positive will end in a successful and beneficial way for all involved. HOWEVER, I wanted to put this out there.... HOJOKI!

Hojoki - make all your cloud apps work together - very cool & free


Hojoki is a new service I just learned about from the Hojoki team. It's a very cool idea - it takes all of your online productivity apps and turns them into a newsfeed and collaborative space to work on projects.

I played with it a little today and will be using it more this week. It looks like something that could be very useful for education.



Hojoki Screencast: Integrate Cloud Apps from Hojoki on Vimeo.

Free Plaigarism Detectors!!

This post is about free Plagiarism tools that teachers can use to deter students from cheating on assignments, which raises the quality of work for your course. Instructors can see at a glance assignments that are original and ones that contain content copied from the Internet. I have assembled all these tools in a guide below for you to download and share.




Free TPlagiarism Detection Tools