Gooru Adds a Collaboration Option for Building Resource Collections With Your Colleagues

Gooru is a service designed to help teachers create and share collections of educational videos, texts, and images. This week Gooru release...

The Week in Review - The Best of the Web

Doing my best "Ellen impersonation." Good evening from Maine where I'm home after a great week in North Carolina for the NCTIE...

Common Core, Book Trailers, and Three Good Tools for Creating Them

In last month's issue of The Digital Shift I featured the site Book Trailers for Readers . Book Trailers for Readers was developed by t...

Google, Video, and Maps in Common Core-aligned ELA & Social Studies Lessons

Earlier this week I conducted a workshop on using Google tools, video tools, and Google Maps Engine Lite in Common Core-aligned ELA & So...

Puffins and Fractions

Last fall Planet Nutshell started a new series of math videos for elementary school students . The latest installment in the series combines...

OpenEd Releases an iPad App for Finding and Sharing Educational Videos and Games

OpenEd.io is a free service that launched in October of 2013 for the purpose of offering a huge catalog of educational videos, games, and a...

CCSS-Aligned Rubrics for Project Based Learning

In a Tweet over the weekend I mentioned that the Buck Institute for Education offers good project based learning activities. Most of what B...

ReadWorks Adds More Science Passages Aligned to Common Core Standards

ReadWorks is a nonprofit service that has cataloged hundreds of lesson plans and more than one thousand non-fiction reading passages aligned...

Discovery Education Presents Common Core Academies

I've been the guest of Discovery Education at a few of their events over the last couple of years. Each of their events that I've at...

5 Online Tools That Help You Align Lessons to Common Core Standards

Common Core, love it or hate it, if you're teaching in the United States there is a good chance that you'll have to work with it. If...

Create, Organize, and Share Lessons In Alchemy SmartBinder

Alchemy SmartBinder is a free service for creating, organizing, and sharing lessons. With an Alchemy SmartBinder account teachers can creat...

MasteryConnect Releases a New Science Standards App and Resource Pins

MasteryConnect, a popular Common Core standards assessment tracking service, recently released a couple of helpful new tools. First, the new...

Problem Attic Expands Again - More Practice Problems Than Ever

Problem Attic is a free service that allows you to quickly create practice tests and flashcards for social studies, language arts, mathema...

ReadWorks Offers 1,000+ Reading Passages Aligned to Common Core Standards

ReadWorks is a free service that has cataloged hundreds of lesson plans and more than one thousand non-fiction reading passages aligned to ...

National Geographic and the Common Core

National Geographic Education's website continues to evolve and it no longer has the "beta" label attached to it. One of the ...

Opus - Sample Math Problems Aligned to Common Core

Opus is a new service that aims to help middle school mathematics teachers discover sample math problems aligned to Common Core standards. ...

Core of Education - Episode #5 - Collaboration

It had been a few weeks since our last recording so yesterday Rod Berger and I sat down to record another short episode for the Core of Educ...

Countdown Helps Teachers Plan Common Core Math Assessments

Countdown is a new service designed to help elementary school and middle school teachers plan a schedule of math assessments aligned to Com...

Common Curriculum Adds Support for Files and Links In Common Core Lesson Plans

Common Curriculum is an online lesson planning resource that aims to help you align your lessons to Common Core standards. I first tried it...

New Course - Google Drive and the Common Core

Over the last few months I have had the good fortune to introduce many educators to using Google Drive to help their students meet Common Co...