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For those of you who have begun using Google Forms in your classrooms and schools, you have probably found that they are a great way to collect data. From room reservations to formative assessments, forms offer a plethora of supports as an educator. Want to take it up a notch?

We're Getting Google Scripty in Here!

http://teachinglikeits2999.blogspot.com/2012/12/were-getting-google-scripty-in-here.html?m=1
http://www.ikeepsafe.org/educators/more/google-digital-literacy-tour/

Google Digital Literacy Tour

Google Digital Literacy Tour iKeepSafe is dedicated to the education of families on how to stay safe online.

Google+: The Complete Guide

http://mashable.com/2011/07/16/google-plus-guide/ Guide updated January 18, 2012
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-plus-hangouts-on-air-feature-now.html

Google Plus Hangouts on Air feature now available to all users

Google+ , Google's social network, has some great features that other networks don't have.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/using-google-docs-to-check-in-on-students-reading/38405 Last semester I taught my favorite book, Mark Z.

Using Google Docs to Check In On Students' Reading

Audio and Video

http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-ipad-apps-for-web-curation.html Curation vs. Aggregation?

10 iPad Apps for Web Curation

10 IT Skills that Today's High School Kids Have - Do You?

Randy Muller, Global Knowledge Instructor http://www.globalknowledge.com/articles/generic.asp?pageid=2979&country=United+States

25 More Tech Tips and Tricks

In my Times column Thursday , I mentioned that there’s no core curriculum for technology. Nobody teaches you the basics. You just pick stuff up as you go along. http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/25-more-tech-tips-and-tricks/

5 free learning management systems

Technology directors around the country are taking a hard look at the price they pay for school digital learning environment and wondering if they should make the jump to open-source. http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_mark_brumley/5_free_learning_management_systems
What it is: No matter what subject(s) you teach, digital literacy is something we all need to take the responsibility to expose our students to. iKeep Safe (one of my favorites for Internet safety with Faux Paw the Techno cat!)

Google Digital Literacy Tour

Symbaloo EDU and Weblist: Sharing the web with students

Sharing the web with students can be a challenge. Websites can often have urls that feel unending, students can copy down a url incorrectly, students type with different speeds, or characters show up in the address that they are unfamiliar with. Complicated urls can single-handedly convince teachers to ditch a wonderful web resource for something easier to manage…like a worksheet.

Interactves | Faceyourmanga Avatar Creator

The time has come! Faceyourmanga brings the web’s leading Avatar generator to the iPhone. Starting today you can collect vibrantly colored Avatars Manga wherever you are, have a blast creating hundreds of Avatars, save your creations in the Gallery or on your iPhone, modify them over and over, match them to contacts in your address book and share them on Facebook and Twitter.

LDSE

Using digital technologies to support teachers in designing effective technology-e nhanced learning (TEL). We are working with practising teachers to research, and co-construct, an interactive Learning Design Support Environment (the Learning Designer ) to scaffold teachers’ decision-making from basic planning to creative TEL design. Through this iterative research-design process we hope to address the above issues and build the means by which the teaching community can collaborate further on how best to deploy TEL.

A Digital Learning Tool Kit

Visit a concept map of this tool kit I.