Net Texts Launches Free OER Textbook Replacements -- THE Journal

Net Texts Launches Free OER Textbook Replacements -- THE Journal:

Free digital textbooks, from the OER community, organized into courses by subject matter.

Their may be some real gems in these collections.

Definitely worth perusing for 1 to 1 and other use. Here is the US History Collection http://www.net-texts.com/Courses/2683/Simple-US-History-

gClassFolders v2

gClassFolders v2:

gClass folders puts a layer on top of google docs that promise to simplify classroom tasks.

On YouTube You Can Now Find Free Music to Legally Download and Re-use

From Free Tech 4 Teachers / R. Byrne -- Tons of free-to-use music for student projects

On YouTube You Can Now Find Free Music to Legally Download and Re-use

People, Partnerships, and Participatory Culture–The Core of School Librarianship, NCSLMA 2012 | Buffy J. Hamilton

People, Partnerships, and Participatory Culture–The Core of School Librarianship, NCSLMA 2012 | Buffy J. Hamilton:

Great advocacy consideration there in.

Get 10GB free on Google Drive with Quickoffice - CBS News

Get 10GB free on Google Drive with Quickoffice - CBS News:

Google is giving away QuickOffice for 2 years (?) and free 10 gigs of storage in your Drive account.

WooT

Klikaklu: Picture Treasure Hunts and Scavenger Hunts on Your iPhone

Klikaklu: Picture Treasure Hunts and Scavenger Hunts on Your iPhone:

A blend of a treasure hunt, QR code, Augmented reality, and geocaching. This would work well on an iPad or Mini. Get the kids up and moving. Get them engaged. Have fun. Teach.

Watch the video - in 180 seconds you'll get it.

graphite | The best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula rated for learning

graphite | The best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula rated for learning:

graphite from Common Sense media is a directory of digital teaching tools are resources. All are sort-able / filter-able by grade, content area and other variables. Teachers can make accounts and rate the resources, so over time you will be able to find resources that other teachers say are good.

iOS 7: What it means for Enterprise, Education, and Government | iMore

iOS 7: What it means for Enterprise, Education, and Government | iMore:

This is a good article on the changes to iOS and how we can more easily support iPads in our schools. I used to be able to multitask like that on my palm pre, worked great, but might be a battery issue if folks leave too much running. MDMs will now be able to do a lot over the air! very nice update for the enterprise.

Home Base IIS Webinar for Teachers - Using Home Base to Support Formative Assessment (09/12/13) on Vimeo

Home Base IIS Webinar for Teachers - Using Home Base to Support Formative Assessment (09/12/13) on Vimeo:

Webinar screen grab of NCDPI pushing schoolnet for formative assessment.

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Home Base IIS Webinar for District Administrators (09/05/13) on Vimeo

Home Base IIS Webinar for District Administrators (09/05/13) on Vimeo:

this video is recording of webinar on HomeBase about creating benchmarks with Schoolnet. May be worth a look if you are working on this.