Top 10 resources for 5/13/11

10. Museum of mathematics, SWEEET!

http://momath.org/

9. 5 fastest ways to improve your teaching

http://www.theteachinggameblog.com/techniques/top-five-fastest-ways-to-improve-your-teaching/

8. 4 mistakes educators make when integrating technology http://goo.gl/TEqpf

7. 40 awesome sites to improve your skills

http://goo.gl/pFTq

6. Why I flipteach!  A great post in the wall street journal

http://goo.gl/AIU2N

5. Surprise, Surprise, working in pairs, actually good!

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/05/13/surprise-surprise-study-says-cooperative-learning-is-more-effective-than-lectures/

4. Google Template for Student projects

http://sites.google.com/site/uteachwithtechnology/google-templates

3. 8 ways to support teachers to integrate technology

http://edtechtoolbox.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-support-teachers.html

2. Mindsets and the end of the year slump

http://blog.brainology.us/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:carol-dweck-on-mindsets-and-the-end-of-year-slump&catid=43:news-and-tips-items&Itemid=58

1. 32 ways to use google apps in the classroom

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AV_Pgq_ZxwvSZGR3d3FxNnRfMjJnN3Jtc2pnaw&hl=en&ndplr=1

VIDEOS of the week

Two more TED-like sites for your motivational and big thinking pleasure

http://www.gelconference.com/

http://the99percent.com/videos

education is broken

  

Search, browse, check out various tutorials on how to do stuff on your computer or iOs.

http://thinktutorial.com/

Diane Ravitch on our own education system

Star Wars and Blooms taxonomy

Radiolab presents symmetry

5 for Friday (DOUBLE EDITION) 3/11/11

This week was a slow week for me, I really didn't get a chance to interact much online but managed to read a few things that would be helpful to some. Check out the list for this week

Top 5 (times 2!)

The networked educational leader – This is a great presentation from an AWESOME principal in Canada.  Great guy always willing to help, follow him on twitter at @gcouros

http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/1814

100 great TECH talks for educators.  Love, love, love this...

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2010/05/31/100-great-tech-talks-for-educators/

Cool website to get all the cool characters on your documents just by copying and pasting

http://copypastecharacter.com/

Do you teach Bloom’s taxonomy?  Do you want to?  If so this is a great resource to get kids to understand question types and with it, answer types…

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2011/03/03/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-thoughts-inquiry-with-blooms-taxonomy/

Top 100 tools for twittering teachers (if you don't tweet, why not!)

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/04/02/top-100-tools-for-the-twittering-teacher/

25 tech tips for not techies - This might not be for you but might be a great resource for someone you know!

http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/25-techy-tips-for-non-techies-581.php

Thank you Google!  Did you know under Google’s advanced search you can now select reading levels of search results.  SWEET!

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Online plagiarism checker - BUSTED!

http://plagiarisma.net/

Ooh, challenging – 10 things you might need to change.

http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/10-things-you-might-need-to-change/

If I could change my classroom into any classroom it would be this one…

http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2011/02/unfettered-by-stuff-or-why-i-dont-lug.html

Videos of the week:

Anti-creativity checklist – Be careful when you start saying some of this…

My Anti-Creativity Checklist from Youngme Moon on Vimeo.

Awesome educators teaching you about Wordle, Prezi, Voicethread and more (great videos to see before our PD day in April)

http://blog.simplek12.com/2-min-edtech-talk/wordle-prezi-voicethread-more-these-educators-know-it-all/