My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (February 22, 2015)

• Massachusetts: Business Group Endorses Common Core Testing | Diane Ravitch's blog

  tags: massachusetts MBAE PARCC

• Sampling the PARCC

  Peter Greene live-blogs his taking of the PARCC test. Interesting read.

  tags: PARCC

• Before You Assign That Homework – What Students Wish You Knew | Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension

  tags: homework

• Could You Teach Without Grades? |

  Great podcast with Starr Sackstein on her experience in a high school Englisg classroom with no grades.

  tags: grades nogrades

• A Wonderful Example of Learning Enabled by Technology

  Good example and pointers on using explain everything

  tags: explaineverything

• The Choreography of Presenting

  Great post from Royan Lee

  tags: presenting

• The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad

  The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad #yorkuict @tcdsbntip #yorkutc http://t.co/Vcpr7WTkdc

  tags: yorkuict yorkutc

• The GDELT Project

  one of the most interesting sites I've see lately #gdelt http://t.co/c92yIBuTe8

  tags: gdelt

• Teays Valley Local Schools - Blizzard Bags

  From Teays Valley School District in Ohio

  tags: blizzardbags

• Online Blizzard Lessons

  From Akron, Ohio

  tags: blizzardbags

• Blizzard Bags

  Samples from Willard, Ohio

  tags: blizzardbags

• http://www.willard.k12.oh.us/images/BlizzardBags/MiddleSchool/Garrett/Garrett-Gr8-LA-Day1.pdf

• Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees

  The guy who wrote this already owns a Pulitzer, which means this probably isn't even his best work. Read & be amazed. http://t.co/F8IHNEYf1P

• Blizzard Bag Day 3 — ConVal School District

  tags: blizz blizzard

• Blizzard Bag FAQ's - Kearsarge Regional School District

  tags: blizzardbag

• Some Relatively Easy Ways for Students to Create Podcasts

  tags: podcasts

• 106K free teacher-created digital textbooks hit the web

  tags: etextbooks ebooks flexbooks

• How to Search for Publicly Shared Google Docs, Slides, and Spreadsheets

  From Richard Byrne - Searching by file type and searching by domains is a great way for students to refine their Google searches - i.e. site:docs.google.com 

  tags: googledocs

• Everone knows my district is a big fan of...

  From Tim Holt - Here is a short video we created giving you an idea of how CK12 works in a BYOD environment.

  tags: flexbooks digitaltextbooks

• Bad Maths | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

  Great Flickr Feed from Danny Nicholson - A place to store all those images of crazy special offers and examples of things that just don't add up. The aim is to be able to use these in maths lessons

  tags: math images

• Dozens of EQs from a vital source

  tags: essentialquestions grantwiggins

• 5 Ways To Make The Audience The Star Of Your Presentation

  tags: presentation audience

• 31 Sources Of Royalty-Free Images

  tags: images free

• Get Started with iBooks Author

  tags: ibook ibooksauthor

• The decline of play | Peter Gray | TEDxNavesink - YouTube

  All work and no play makes Jack a maladjusted boy [Watch] http://t.co/MPJOw5Bmwo #edchat #miched #tlap #elpspd http://t.co/Lkcn9VrRs6

  tags: edchat miched tlap elpspd

• STUNNING: THE INTERNET IN REAL-TIME: http://t.co/

  STUNNING: THE INTERNET IN REAL-TIME: http://t.co/rx4kuQTvIL http://t.co/FNpVXxI6DD

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