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 New Tutorials for using Excel at http://www.excel-easy.com/ "Our website is 100% free and always will be" "Do you have an Excel question? We can help you!"

 New PD offered online with VESI. Advanced Classroom Management:Children as Change Agents, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder:Information & Interventions for Effective Teaching, Autism & Asperger's Disorder:Information & Effective Intervention Strategies ,Behavior is Language:Strategies for Managing Disruptive Behavior.

    New PD Courses Professional Development Advancing Learning Through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching -starts June 1st, Classroom Strategies for Inquiry-Based Learning- starts June 1st, What Now? Emerging Technologies and Their Practical Application in K12 Teaching and Learning -starts July 11th, Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology- starts July 14th.

  New Post!!  Many New Opportunities for Professional Development .Summer will be here before we know it!  

   New Webinars added! Professional Development Webinars for Educators with certificates. Teachers create account and join groups for e-mail updates of new webinars.

    Adobe Spark is a new suite of free tools for creating images, videos, and simple web pages. The blog-o-sphere was all abuzz about Adobe Spark late last week so I gave it a try too. Adobe Spark can be used in your web browser or you can download the Adobe Spark video, image, and web page iPad apps. You and your students could use Adobe Spark to create short informational videos. The recording feature in Adobe Spark's video editor makes it very easy to precisely control the audio on each part of your videos. The Adobe Spark web page tool provides students with a great way to tell stories through pictures. And the image tool provides you with a good way to create a graphic that can grab students' and their parents' attention in a social media posting from you or your school.

   Create & Track Reading Goals in Chrome with Stack Up. Stack Up is a free service that aims to help you give students credit for time spent reading quality articles online. On Stackup you can create reading challenges for your students. A challenge could be something like "read current events for 60 minutes this week." After creating the challenge you invite students to join it. Students can join by entering a challenge code on Stackup or you can invite them by email.

  Zing is a service that offers thousands of free fiction and non-fiction ebooks to teachers and students. On Zing you can browse for books by topic, language, or reading level. You can read the books in your web browser on a laptop or tablet. Yes! Zing is free for educators, parents, and students. This is NOT a temporary free trial.

  Read Write Think is a great place to find story starters and interactive writing templates. A good example of that is found on Read Write Think's Compare & Contrast Map. The Compare & Contrast Map is a template for creating a comparative essay. Using the template students are guided through writing three styles of comparison essays. To get started students identify two things that they wish to compare and or contrast. Then they choose if they want to write a "whole to whole" essay, a "similarities to differences" essay, or a "point to point" essay. Whichever essay type they choose, students are guided through the types of information they should put in each part of their essays. When their essays are complete students can share them via email or print them. If you haven't spent much time exploring the resources on Read Write Think's classroom resources page, I encourage you to do so.

  Quetext New plagiarism checker- FREE

  ELearning Bundles at Pay What You Want Prices!!!!! 5 to 15 Course bundles in Javascript Development, IOS Developer for Android,Microsoft Office Productivity, Wordpress Wizard, Android Expert Coding, Game Developer, Mobile First Developer, Business Design, Game Design, WordPress Theme.  These change periodically, so check back often!!! This is real as I have purchased bundles for elearning.

  Fluency Tutor™ for Google helps busy teachers bring struggling readers up to speed.Fluency Tutor for Google makes reading aloud more fun and satisfying for students who need extra support.

 All new Free tutorials with videos in Microsoft Office, Typing, Math, Spelling and Vocabulary, Grammar and Writing, Life Skills for KIds

  All new Test Prep for the ACT and SAT  and it is FREE and online. So new in fact it is still in BETA but is working awesomely well. Sign up for your free test prep account today!

   75 Google Apps Video Tutorials

 Need to create a website? The following are free and easy: Just click on them to be taken to that site.

Wix, Squarespace,Googlesites, Wordpress, Yola, Webs, SnapPages, Webnode, Weebly, Jimdo, 

Doodlekit, Moonfruit, Zoho, Jigsy, Livecity.

Some Useful Tutorials to Introduce Students to Coding: Code Studio. Create a Teacher account and see the possibilities for all grade levels https://code.org/teacher-dashboard#/

  Articles and tools that help to integerate and use technology tools in teaching.

The shift toward technology in education has been accelerated, and the vast array of digital tools now available to educators has had a significant impact on instruction, in many ways revolutionizing the field. But the fact remains—teachers are the driving force behind every student’s education. They are the ones who animate learning.

As we continue to implement new instructional tools into our curricula, educators must continue to develop a collective knowledge base of best practices grounded in critical thinking and provide sound pedagogical support to new teachers.

  Integrating Chromebooks Into Teaching and Learning.

freetech4teachers.com 5 SpeakPipe Voice Recorder - A Quick Way to Create MP3 Recordings. Students could use SpeakPipe's Voice Recorder to record short audio interviews or to record short audio blog entries. To create a recording with the SpeakPipe Voice Recorder simply go to the website, click "start recording," and start talking. You can record for up to five minutes on the SpeakPipe Voice Recorder. 

  Help Students Learn New Skills using these excellent apps!

  10 NEW Educational Web Tools for Teachers and Educators

  8 Ways to Improve Your Digital Teaching

   Make sure you catch this during the Summer! This app is designed to reduce job burnout—and it’s free for educators!!!Stress Relief That Lasts!!

 The 4Cs of Technology Integration.

  10 Things Students Should Know About Tech by Fifth Grade.

  5 Essential Multimedia Skills Every Educator Must Master.

 Research: Video Gamers Learn Visual activities Faster.

 5 Resources for National Poetry Month.

 5 Awesome Writing Apps for Elementary Students!!

  Some of the Best Storytelling Apps for Elementary Students. 

  Professional Development Choose Courses at the top and then at the right choose Education for strictly Teacher PD EdX Joins ConnectED To Deliver MOOCs for Free Teacher Training and AP Prep

edX joins White House to Transform Education:Free Teacher Professional Development & AP* Level Courses- Free Verified Certificates for U.S. Teachers. These courses, developed by the nation’s best colleges and universities, will focus on blended learning and integrating technology in the classroom. Only U.S. teachers will be able to earn free verified certificates upon successful course completion. Register today! Courses will be available on edx.org over the next 12 months. Sign-up here to stay informed about edX and ConnectED courses.

   Professional development-  Udemy Launches Free and Reduced ($10) Computer Courses for Teachers!! As educators, you help chart the course of our future. You’re pioneers preparing the next generation,  and we want to equip you with the latest skills. Get access to Udemy’s top tech courses for $10 each. The first 1000 teachers to register also get a free course! Learn top skills in tech so that you can inspire your students and pursue your passion.

  Many New Opportunities for Professional Development .Summer will be here before we know it!  Of Special Interest- Help Teachers Unleash the Power of IPads and Win Back Instructional Time!

 101 Free Tech Tools for Teachers, and we hope it engages you and proves itself useful for all of your educational technology needs.

  A Magical and Revolutionary New Guide featuring the 40 Best Free Apps!!

 "A free eight-week Science of Happiness course that will offer practical, research-backed tips on living a happy and meaningful life." We all want to be happy, and there are countless ideas about what happiness is and how we can get some. But not many of those ideas are based on science. That’s where this course comes in. Delivered by UC BerkleyX

 Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.The online courses are designed for a wide range of people around the world, among them self-directed and life-long learners, educators, and high school and college students.

 Thinking Teachers Teaching Thinkers Community. A world of classroom-ready content, available free to K-12 teachers, with guidance from seasoned professionals on how to use it effectively!

   Professional Development Free webinars for Teachers.

 Nine Ways to be a Positive Communicator.

    Curiously Fun | Amazingly Effective |  At Education Galaxy, we enjoy providing engaging solutions to young and developing learners. When students are engaged, their capacity for learning is improved.

 Teachers will need district code to enter Pulling for Kids portal to access Master Teacher PD, NBC Learn, and Greenbush for Scratch. A collaboration between NBCLearn, MasterTeacher, and The Greenbush Education Service Center

   Professional Development Webinars for Educators with certificates. Teachers create account and join groups for e-mail updates of new webinars.

 In Education, Professional Development and resources for teachers.

  Khan Academy for Remediation and Differentiation.

 Professional Development Modules with Certificates

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