Tech Tune: December 2012

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2012/12/common-core-state-standards-and-library-of-congress-primary-sources/ December 26, 2012 at 12:49PM via Diigo CommonCore

Why Kids Need Schools to Change | MindShift

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Monday, December 24, 2012

From my PLN 12/25/2012

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5 Tools to Introduce Programming to Kids | MindShift

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How To Make Your Own Educational Video Games - Edudemic

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How Kids Benefit From Chores | GeekMom | Wired.com

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What I learned from my PLN 12/24/2012 (p.m.)

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Best of Edutopia: Staff Picks for 2012 | Edutopia

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Educational Technology Guy: Evernote Clearly gets Text-to-Speech - premium only

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Free Technology for Teachers: 3 Ways To Quickly Share Bunches of Links With Your Students

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3 Ways to Make Video More Interactive - Getting Smart

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Instructional Pacing: How Do Your Lessons Flow? | Edutopia

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From my PLN 12/24/2012

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What I learned from my PLN 12/24/2012 (a.m.)

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

From my PLN 12/23/2012

Online Audio Converter (MP3, WAV, Ogg, WMA, M4A, AAC) – media.io

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Online Audio Converter (MP3, WAV, Ogg, WMA, M4A, AAC) – media.io

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Online Audio Converter (MP3, WAV, Ogg, WMA, M4A, AAC) – media.io

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Friday, December 21, 2012

From my PLN 12/22/2012

MCS Resident Educator - LiveBinder

tags: resident educator

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MCS Resident Educator - LiveBinder

tags: resident educator

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MCS Resident Educator - LiveBinder

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

From my PLN 12/21/2012

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Database Lesson Plans and Ideas

tags: database

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Database Lesson Plans and Ideas

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julieadams - Blog - What Makes a Teacher Effective in the Common Core Age?

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

julieadams - Blog - What Makes a Teacher Effective in the Common Core Age?

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From my PLN 12/20/2012

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Add Speech To Text In Google Chrome, Dictate Words From Microphone

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Use Google Chrome as a Free Voice Recognition Software with Dictation

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VoiceNote: Another Excellent Voice-to-Text App for Google Chrome | Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner | OT's with Apps

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Gamefroot |

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Education

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Adventure Maker (freeware) - Create games for Windows, PSP, iPhone, and iPod touch without writing a line of code

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Make iOS and Flash Games with Stencyl

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What is AgentSheets?

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Create Games - Scirra.com

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What I learned from my PLN 12/19/2012 (p.m.)

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

achievethecore.org / Steal These Tools / Professional Development Modules

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Build Students’ Ability to Access More Complex Texts across the Content Areas « Co-Creating Solutions: A Blog by CTL

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What to Do Before Bed and After Waking Up for More Daily Energy

http://lifehacker.com/5969513/what-to-do-before-bed-and-after-waking-up-for-more-daily-energy December 18, 2012 at 10:00PM via Diigo sleep

Everbot Connects Gmail and Google Calendar to Evernote for Quick Note Sharing

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Common Core - Capture the Core Newsletters

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24 Multimedia Tools That Support The Common Core - Edudemic

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Myebook - get it out there!

http://www.myebook.com/index.php December 18, 2012 at 08:40PM via Diigo ebook

Math Run - Mathgame - how fast are your Math skills? A simple Math Training Game for everyone

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Connect your Google account to Evernote

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From my PLN 12/19/2012

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Games in Education - Game Creation Tools

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Adventures in Alice Programming - Duke University, Durham NC

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Duke University Alice Materials Tutorials Repository

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

From my PLN 12/17/2012

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Computing In The Core

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Maggie Johnson: The Common Core Must Include Computer Science

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Next Generation Science Standards

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5 Unexpected Results of Going 1:1 | Go Where You Grow

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5 Common 1:1 Teacher Mistakes | Go Where You Grow

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From my PLN 12/16/2012

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edWeb.net - Networking, resource sharing, collaboration, and professional development for the education community

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Edutech for Teachers

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Zotero | Home

http://www.zotero.org December 15, 2012 at 09:31AM via Diigo research

Math in the News

http://www.media4math.com/MathInTheNews.asp December 15, 2012 at 09:18AM via Diigo math, news

Google Forms - Kern Kelley

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VoiceNote: Another Excellent Voice-to-Text App for Google Chrome | Free Resources from the Net for EVERY Learner

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http://coolcatteacher.visibli.com/share/QJmYop

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Is a Google Chromebook “right” for your child? | K4STEMLAB

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Life, teaching and other distractions.

http://petewharmby.blogspot.co.uk December 15, 2012 at 08:25AM via Diigo minecraft

What I learned from my PLN 12/15/2012 (p.m.)

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Morning Mood: Why Some People Wake Up Grumpy

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Dropr Is a Dead-Simple, Drag and Drop Online Portfolio Creation Tool

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From my PLN 12/15/2012

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DIY Professional Development: Resource Roundup | Edutopia

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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: An Updated Digital Differentiation Model

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

From my PLN 12/14/2012

Where Expectations and Relationships Intersect | Connected Principals

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Where Expectations and Relationships Intersect | Connected Principals

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Where Expectations and Relationships Intersect | Connected Principals

http://connectedprincipals.com/archives/6814 December 12, 2012 at 09:16PM via Diigo no_tag

From my PLN 12/13/2012

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Singapore Math and the Common Core Standards

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Singapore Math and the Common Core Standards

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Could Competency-Based Learning Save the Common Core? - Forbes

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Naiku | Balanced Assessment to stay ahead of the learning curve

http://www.naiku.net December 11, 2012 at 10:06PM via Diigo assessment

How to Clean Your House in 15 Minutes or Less

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10 Ways To Get Energy Without Caffeine | Her Campus

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How to Design Text-Based Questions (and Teach Students to Answer Them!) > Eye On Education

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How to React When Someone Says You're Wrong (but You Know You're Right)

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From my PLN 12/12/2012

CorePlanner | Common Core Standards | Free Lesson Planning Software

tags: standards core

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CorePlanner | Common Core Standards | Free Lesson Planning Software

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Monday, December 10, 2012

CorePlanner | Common Core Standards | Free Lesson Planning Software

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From my PLN 12/11/2012

TODCM Web Based Curriculum Mapping Open Source Software System

tags: CommonCore
LearnZillion

tags: CommonCore
Mapping to the Core | Curriculum 21 Professional Development

tags: core mapping
Create Your Syllabus With a Spreadsheet and a Calendar App - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

tags: core calendar
About CSV files - Google Calendar Help

",07:10:00 PM"

tags: core calendar
importing into google calendar from google spreadsheet - Google Groups

tags: core calendar
Using Google Docs for Lesson Plans and labeling the Common Core State Standards | Running on Fumes

"Common Core app widget"

tags: core CCSS lesson plans
5 Degrees to Becoming a Common Core Ninja [INFOGRAPHIC]

tags: CCSS

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TODCM Web Based Curriculum Mapping Open Source Software System

http://todcm.org December 10, 2012 at 01:40PM via Diigo CommonCore

LearnZillion

http://learnzillion.com December 10, 2012 at 09:04AM via Diigo CommonCore

Mapping to the Core | Curriculum 21 Professional Development

http://www.c21hub.com/pd/mapping_to_core/ December 10, 2012 at 08:53AM via Diigo core, mapping

What I learned from my PLN 12/10/2012 (p.m.)

Create Your Syllabus With a Spreadsheet and a Calendar App - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

tags: core calendar
About CSV files - Google Calendar Help

",07:10:00 PM"

tags: core calendar
importing into google calendar from google spreadsheet - Google Groups

tags: core calendar
Using Google Docs for Lesson Plans and labeling the Common Core State Standards | Running on Fumes

"Common Core app widget"

tags: core CCSS lesson plans
5 Degrees to Becoming a Common Core Ninja [INFOGRAPHIC]

tags: CCSS

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Create Your Syllabus With a Spreadsheet and a Calendar App - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/create-your-syllabus-with-a-spreadsheeta-calendar-app/24416 December 09, 2012 at 10:01PM via Diigo core, calendar

About CSV files - Google Calendar Help

",07:10:00 PM"

http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&lev=index&cbid=45656&answer=45656&src=cb December 09, 2012 at 09:59PM via Diigo core, calendar