Coaching in and out of the classroom: 5 for Friday (DOUBLE EDITION) 3/4/11

So I seem to be running at double speed lately. I have too many great things that I find and the top 5 is becoming harder and harder. In the interest of not limiting you to only 5 great resources a week, I'm going to do a couple DOUBLE-UPS when necessary. Today being the first double up I will share with you 10 of the coolest things I've found this week and 2 of the coolest videos that have crossed my path. As an aside the video list is getting a little ridiculous, I may need to do a top 5 one week of just videos.

Here they are, the top 10 resources I found this week in no particular order:

Free magazine for the “creative educator” I like Free it's my favorite number.

http://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/

As we seek to learn more remember you don’t have to be an expert, you just have to be willing! The will to check this out is the first step.

http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/parents-teachers-you-dont-have-to-be-an-expert-580.php

Free site for finding educational videos. Thousands of videos categorized by every subject imaginable

http://www.watchknow.org/default.aspx

A little overwhelming, but a little amazing too. The best of the web organized and categorized for you, yum!

http://highdefteacher.com/

I need to share a large file, how can I do that? There are a number of ways, here’s three….

http://techronicity.blogspot.com/2011/02/sharing-made-easy-transferbigfiles.html

pleasenotify.me is a simple, free service to let you send tasks to people, and be notified when they're done. I like this as we embrace 21st century skills and students "turn in" things digitally this service will allow you to know when things have been updated, etc.

http://pleasenotify.me/

I like this post when considering doing something different. As I start a new unit 4th quarter that I haven't taught in 8 years, I begin the unit with trepidation….change isn’t easy..

http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/change-isnt-easy/

You can never have enough Icebreakers!

http://www.icebreakers.ws/

Differentiation is the word of the year. But what does it look like?

http://www.maggiehosmcgrane.com/2011/01/differentiation-what-does-it-look-like.html

And my top two favorite videos of the week: