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Good section on organization - Alice Barr

Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions Try guessing how many apps have permissions to access your private information... Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise! - Alice Barr

What makes the difference between a success story and a technology program that is abandoned due to lack of progress? Based on recent research and interviews with exemplary one-to-one districts, this eBook showcases five essential factors for a successful Implementation. - Alice Barr

Data sets - Alice Barr

GTAUK Docs - Alice Barr

Email Me Form is a free online form generator service that helps you create HTML forms for your website, with no programming required. - Alice Barr

Use "The Energy WATCH" below to see how much carbon dioxide your school has emitted this week. If your school is at position number one, then your emissions have reduced the most compared to the previous week. - Alice Barr

You can customise the look of text and headings in your document using the styles toolbar menu. The styles toolbar menu displays the style of your text selection in a document and lets you change the style or clear the formatting of your text. - Alice Barr

Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action! - Alice Barr

The Teacher's Guide to Project Based Learning - Alice Barr

"We are the innovation unit for public services. As a not-for-profit social enterprise we're committed to using the power of innovation to solve social challenges. We have a strong track record of supporting leaders and organisations delivering public services to see and do things differently. They come to us with a problem and we empower them to achieve radically different solutions that offer better outcomes for lower costs." - Alice Barr

"This tutorial guides you through the steps of automating a help desk workflow." - Alice Barr

We've created public templates so you can try out some of the common tasks and processes that can easily be simplified and automated by Google Apps Script. To try out a template, click the title link to create your own copy of the spreadsheet containing the script. Then follow the steps indicated on the first tab of the spreadsheet to customize the script for your own use. - Alice Barr

We all have memories of the great teachers who shaped our childhood. They found ways to make the lightbulb go off in our heads, instilled in us a passion for learning and helped us realize our potential. The very best teachers were creative with the tools at their disposal, whether it was teaching the fundamentals of addition with Cheerios or the properties of carbon dioxide with baking soda and vinegar. As the Internet has developed, so too have the resources available for teachers to educate their students. - Alice Barr

Quickly and easily digitize student work and build the resource for authentic assessment in your classroom. Unleash the power and the flexibility of digital tools, without sacrificing the important work your students do in non-digital formats. - Alice Barr

When asked what words come to mind when they think about students posting to the Internet, many educators list words like danger and safety. But with the likes of Robert Nay—who created one of the most downloaded iPad apps of 2011 when he was just 14—and even Justin Bieber—who began his international superstardom as a YouTube sensation—as inspiration, students and teachers alike should know the positives that posting to the Internet can offer. - Alice Barr

All kinds of Twitter chats that take place at a certain time on a certain day. - Alice Barr

Preparing students to be citizens of the world - Alice Barr

Here are a series of tools that can be used to support reflection, with a brief discussion of the process, the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. - Alice Barr

The most significant goal of this presentation is to provide frameworks for schools, teachers and parents to use in developing a Digital Ethics curriculum alongside other elements of technology integration. By layering common data about use on top of current work on brain science, and adolescent media, we'll offer access points for meaningful engagement of complex teen issues in a quickly evolving digital geography. In particular we are presenting ways to link "non-native users" with digital natives through an exploration and application of ethics. We'll use storytelling, data models, and examples of lesson series, which empower students to engage adults knowledgeably, and equitably in the learning curve that characterizes conversations about behavior online and within social media contexts. At our school, we have seen the incidence of online harassment decline well below national norms while students are increasingly utilizing the tools of informed citizenship, caring for each other... - Alice Barr

Apple has a whole category dedicated to education in the App store. But how do you really know which ones are worth downloading, or possibly even paying for? TCEA (Texas Computer Education Association) to the rescue! TCEA regularly tests available apps and recommends apps that teachers should be using. TCEA maintains a list of recommended apps in a shared document via Google Docs. The list is organized by subject area and free apps are color coded in white. - Alice Barr

curation sites that are beneficial to creating and sharing lists. - Alice Barr

Thank you for your interest in becoming an iTunes U content provider. Please complete the following information, and we will review your application and get back to you within 5 business days. - Alice Barr

Through the new ASCD iTunes U channel, educators can stay up-to-date with the most recent audio and video professional development content, including ASCD webinars Archived conference presentations Interviews with ASCD authors Video profiles of educators - Alice Barr

We have access to an exponentially growing amount of information to process and apply. There are many excellent tools we can all use to help in constructing and organizing that content. Here's a short selection of some of the more popular ones. They can be used by individuals and also by students or teachers collaborating in groups. - Alice Barr

Educators Collaborating Through Twitter – Building Your Personal Learning Network with Social Media - Alice Barr

The SparkNotes YouTube channel offers 23 short animated video overviews of literature commonly read in high school courses. Below I've embedded the first of three videos about The Odyssey. - Alice Barr

You can either browse or search to find a user account in the control panel. - Alice Barr

backchan.nl is tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nl is intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time. - Alice Barr

The NMC Horizon EdTech Weekly App delivers curated, relevant, and timely edtech projects and news to your iPad or iPhone every weekend. It also includes the entire NMC Horizon Report series on emerging technology across various learning sectors, and a rich, searchable, re-mixable database of educational technology and innovation resources. Whether you are in higher education, K-12, or the museum world, the NMC Horizon EdTech Weekly App delivers the best of the NMC Horizon Project. - Alice Barr