The Khan Academy has released an iPad app to access their collection of over 2,700 educational videos. The videos range from K-12 topics to adult education. You can stream all the videos and even download select ones to your iPad for offline viewing. You can also begin watching a video on one device and pick [...]

We are running an online course using Haiku Learning’s LMS (haikulearning.com). Very easy to use, and they allow you to setup a free class. Adding content (text, images, audio, video, web pages, almost anything), polls, and even creating Wikiproject for individuals or groups of students to work on are possible with a few clicks, none [...]

A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas A report released today by the National Research Council presents a new framework for K-12 science education that identifies the key scientific ideas and practices all students should learn by the end of high school. The framework will serve as the foundation for [...]

We’ve mentioned FreeKindleBooks.org in the past. They are a great resource to download freely available content to your Kindle, iPad, or other ebook reading device. FreeKinldeBooks now offers The Magic Catalog. This is an ebook simply filled with links to other free ebooks, put together in an alphabetical list. What makes it so useful is [...]

A method for giving out email addresses to your students to use with various web technologies that require one to sign up (ex. Edmodo). This is the same method we use at the RETC to manage our kindle program, where each kindle has its own account that required an email address. This method would be [...]