You Tube Channel for Teachers

YouTube has just created a channel for teachers!  Visit http://www.youtube.com/teachers for tips on effective use of YouTube in classrooms, how to create your own YouTube channel for your students to access, video production tips, YouTube privacy information, and more!

Classroom Assessment on Your iPad!

Do you have a personal iPad that you're hoping to use in innovative ways in your classroom?  Now you can use your iPad to manage and track your students' progress this year with a great new app called Markbook.

Markbook is a class management tool that many schools have purchased for teacher use on the school network.  Markbook allows tracking of student assessments, creation of seating plans, and much more.

Now the makers of Markbook have announced that their iPad app is free for educators until September 30.  Visit the App Store on your iPad and type "markbook" into the search bar.  In seconds, you will have a fully functional classroom management system on your iPad, with free updates for this entire school year.

Contact your school's site administrator and/or principal for more information about school based purchases of Markbook to install on your school network.

Take Your Class on a Virtual Art Gallery Field Trip with Google Art Project

Teaching art has never been more powerful or interactive.  The Google Art Project is an absolutely incredible resource.  Using street view technology and incredible high resolution imagery, students can virtually tour many of the most famous art galleries around the world, explore famous art works right down to cracks and brush stroke details, learn about famous art works and artists, and much more!  If you're an art teacher, you must explore the Google Art Project with your students.  Incredible!!

Teach Circuitry With PlayDough

We're always on the look out for creative new ways to teach kids complex concepts in a simpler way.  Watch the above video to see how 2 different types of play dough can be used to create simple electrical circuits.  This would be a fantastic, fun, and powerful learning activity in junior and intermediate science classes.  Try it out today!