Lingro - Turn any web page into a clickable dictionary

1.  Lingro

Lingro is a cool tool for both the “wow” factor and for its usefulness. Simply type in a website address on the Lingro website and it instantly turns the website into a clickable dictionary that translates text in 12 languages. Lingro hides in the background until students need it. To use, students simply click on any word and several definitions of the word are instantly displayed. I could see this as very useful tool for just-in-time support for English language learners.

This is a great tool if you have ESL students or Spec Ed students who need to increase their vocabulary.

Susan Johnston

Chapter Seven!

Chapter Seven! (The BEST CHAPTER!)

Which students?

If we begin with one or two classes for blended learning this fall, which classes should we use?  After talking with Paul this summer, one idea is to work with some of our best students, partly because these students can help to improve the system and do not become so discouraged if something goes wrong initially.  For me, this would be the ECE students in International Relations.  What classes are other members of our team planning to target?

Debates

How can we best use blended learning for debates?  Up to now, my students have all done individual sheets with three arguments for the affirmative, three for the negative, and counters to each argument. I want to maximize individual effort and work, rather than letting a couple of students do all of the work for each team.  On the other hand, it would be good to have each team work on the best arguments for their team.  Any suggestions?

Update

After reading the introduction and Chapter 4, I'm glad to be meeting tomorrow. (I admit, I wasn't thrilled...) Feeling a little overwhelmed, some unprepared, and a whole bunch of anxiety! However, just for the record, I am also excited...

From: Family Resource Aide:

 Blended Learning in some ways will be an obstacle for some of our families. We have ideas on Parent Workshops and Ice Breakers that will help establish a partnership with our parents on a home environment to support our students. If families receive a clear understanding on what is BL... they can use the knowledge that they learned to strengthen their support about school and the importance of homework.  Also, we will include mini workshops for our  ESL Parents and Karen families so they could identify and connect to this new approach of school resources.

  And at the end of the day... "All parents want their children to be successful in life".

Intervention Classes

At a meeting with Mr. Padua in June, he indicated that I will be teaching Intervention Classes/Labs incorporating Study Island software using a Blended learning model. I have several years of experience co-teaching language arts and math, teaching Read 180, and Algebra I and Geometry labs. 

Based on the description in Blended, we are implementing the lab rotation model since the students will only, with a few exceptions, have one-to-one computer learning access in the intervention labs.
However, I plan incorporate an individual rotation model during the intervention class to meet student(s) individual needs and/or IEP requirements.

Ideas for Incorporating Blended Learning into my Classroom

            One of the goals I have as a reason for making my classroom a blended learning environment is that it gives me the opportunity to provide my students with immediate feedback. I felt that this was an important goal for myself as many students have a bunch of things going on in their lives. Thus, even if I am able to return work students complete the day after they handed it in, many students may have forgotten some of what was discussed in class when they were completing the assignment. Thus, when students are completing an assignment, I want the ability to provide them with instantaneous feedback as this will not only help me see where the students are in terms of grasping different concepts but it also shows them that I care about the work they are doing and can acknowledge that work in real time. One website that I am working on incorporating into my classroom is Pear Deck (https://www.peardeck.com/). I found this website to be very helpful for providing students with immediate feedback as this website allows you to create interactive PowerPoint presentations in which students can make posts and answer polls that show up directly in the PowerPoint in real time. The teacher also has full control over what posts are made public for all students to view allowing the teacher to clear any inappropriate comments. Additionally, the teacher can highlight key responses that they thought were very insightful or added to the discussion. This website is one I would like to learn more about and become more proficient in as it allows me to provide immediate feedback to my students and be more responsive to their needs as learners.

            Another area in which I thought a blended learning model could help further my instruction and benefit my students is through trying out online applications that may help incorporate some aspects of the flipped classroom model. One system I want to try to incorporate into my classroom would be to have students download an app such as the BBC News app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bbc.mobile.news.ww&hl=en) on either their phones or their chromebooks. I feel that using an app such this could help my classroom become a more blended learning environment as students could use the application to analyze and learn more about issues that are happening in the world today while at home and during a time that works best for them. Then when the students come into class the next day, the students and myself could work together to form past/present connections.

            Finally, I want to see how blended learning has an effect on attendance, particularly when we try and incorporate different blended learning styles. I am curious to see how a blended learning environment can effect attendance as getting students use to learning in a blended classroom may be a new experience for them. Thus, I want to see how incorporating different systems will effect the students and know how to make any changes that need to be made in order to keep a high attendance rate for the classes I am teaching.

Blended Learning - The Flipped Classroom Model

            The research that I looked into for blended learning centered around the idea of the “Flipped Classroom” model. This idea of the flipped classroom interested me primarily because one of the major things I will be trying to balance as a new teacher is the pacing of the classes I will be teaching. This is something I really want to work on during my first year of teaching because I know that I will have a wide range of student abilities in my classes and I must ensure that all of my students are successful. Thus, I feel that if I can incorporate some principles of the flipped classroom into my own practice, my students will be able to work at their own pace and I can create opportunities for them to study and learn about topics that interest them.

            While I like the idea of implementing some principles of the flipped classroom into my own teaching practices, I feel that there are still many questions I have about properly implementing this teaching method. For example, one are article I read stated “for most teachers (and students), videos are the method of choice for delivering the out-of-class portion of the instruction” (Herried & Schiller, 2013). While I do believe that videos definitely can make for engaging activities for students to complete while at home, I also accept that not all students enjoy analyzing and working with videos. Some other ideas that I thought would fit into a flipped classroom would be having students work with news articles and other current event material at home and then working on making past/present connections in the classroom. While these are two examples that I know can be used in a flipped classroom, I know that I could not simply rely on these few strategies to ensure that my classroom would be interesting and engaging for students throughout the school year.

            Finally, when looking up research on the effectiveness of flipped classrooms and how they could be incorporated into the traditional classroom, there was one question that I could not find a solid answer to. While I see that the flipped classroom model can have benefits for students, I also wanted to know if ideas of the flipped classroom could be incorporated with other teaching practices as well. While I see the benefits of having students learning at home at their own pace, I also know that the flipped classroom model may not help every student, which is why I would want to incorporate it with other teaching practices as well.

Wow Blended Learning!!! As a Family Resource Aide every year its a challenge on how to reach our parents and engage families to participate in our school.  This will be a great move in the right direction to help our families... No excuses... any place...any time... any where...whatever it takes!!! Family Involvement at Home will be more interactive because students will be open to share and enjoy their work, projects and complete college applications with their families which will open home to school communication.

ImplementationThoughts

After researching guidance counseling programs that educated their students through blended learning, I quickly realized there was not much information. I questioned how I could implement blended learning as a school counselor. Once I met with Paul to go over what the guidance department’s implementation plan could look like, I became confident about educating my students through blended learning. In the future I would love to see students have more ownership over their SSP’s and college/career documents. Students will have access to video lessons that will walk each student through creating a resume, completing the common application, etc. By students owning their important documents, meeting times with each student will be more efficient. Meeting times will consist of helping students with what they have completed rather than teaching.

I believe some students may be hesitant about the blended learning experience, but overtime, I think students will realize how much more they have access to. Most documents will be available online and they will have instant access to it. There will be no more lost documents because everything will be online. Students will develop a greater independence and become more comfortable communicating through technology.

In order for this to be successful I will need access to google classroom. This will allow me to upload each student's transcript and make all documents in the guidance department digital. Scholarships will be available to students and updated each day through google classroom. To measure the success of this project, college enrollment data will be reviewed and compared from the previous year. The guidance department will track student applications submitted to colleges and scholarships. I strongly believe educating students through blended learning will increase the school’s college enrollment data and application submissions.

Chapter 10. . . done and done!

Looking forward to using Khan Academy and all it's new PSAT/SAT material with my Algebra 2 students.

At-Risk and Special Needs Students

The challenges we face on a daily basis educating our large number of at-risk and special needs students can be overwhelming.  We are certainly not alone!  Teachers all across the country, especially in urban areas, share our experience but they, like we, are not comforted by sharing this problem.


According to a brief at  https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/.../scope-pub-using-technology-report.pdf  from 2014 research shows that more than 1 million U.S. high school students drop out each year because of personal and/or academic factors.  More importantly, the brief reviews, from over 70 studies, the successes of the approaches and uses of technology in high school.
I look forward to Hartford Going Blended and implementing the approach/uses set forth in Blended. I believe that our students will succeed with one-to-one computing opportunities and increased teacher support through a smaller student to teacher ratio.

What it might look like

So, after meeting with Paul (which was extremely helpful, Thank you, Paul) and reading all of these great posts and looking into a variety of tools. I am definitely planning to use the station rotation model in my classroom. I believe my room is already well equipped for this model and the content of ELA will work well utilizing this model.

I mentioned in my previous post that I want input from the students right from the get go. But I do plan to provide a variety of options for students when rotating to various stations. If students are going to "own" their learning, they have to "own" what tasks they do when, as much as possible. So, aside from whole class instruction or discussions, students will be able to choose to do an independent activity, like independent reading or skill building on the computer or work with a partner or small group on another activity.

Here are some of my initial thoughts on what some of those choices may include:

                Journaling

                Independent Reading

                Building  skills in Grammar

                Building skills in Vocabulary

                Building skills in Writing

                Building skills in Comprehension

                Peer discussions (this could be brainstorming ideas for writing or after reading discussions)

                Peer editing (after writing)

                Peer tutoring (on any skill)

Some of the tools I plan to use or at least look into further are Edmodo, Google Docs, NoRedInk, VocabAhead, Quill, TurnItIn, BlogSpot, Newsela, MyOn, Learnthat.org, Grammarly or Grammar Monster.

I would also like to incorporate web quests, movie creator and comic creator tools.

I am wondering if we will be granted access to YouTube. I have often found great resources on YouTube but was unable to access them in the classroom. I know (and the students know) there are work-a-rounds, but I would rather just have it as a legitimate resource.

Who's who in the Blended Learning Community? 

I wanted to research possible schools sites to visit for Blended Learning. This link covers Blended Learning school that were part of research paper/case study for school and the methods in place that supports each model.

- District: Henrico County Public Schools, Henrico, Virginia
- District: Albuquerque Public Schools, New Mexico
- District: St. Tammany Parish Public Schools, Louisiana
- School: Digital Harbor High School, Baltimore City, Maryland

http://www.blackboard.com/resources/k12/bb_k12_wp_blendedlearning.pdf

Also:

http://www.blendedlearning.org/directory/

What does the research say about blended learning and the ESL student?

Although few and far between, there are some case studies/reports being done on Blended Learning and ESL/ELL classrooms. Here are three of the best ones I have found so far:

Blended learning environments take the interactive whiteboard initiative one step further, putting the device straight into the hands of the ELL students, allowing them to interact kinesthetically with laptops, computers, and mobile devices. The personal, hands-on relation between student and technology furthers engagement and the student’s connection between language reception and individual retention/understanding.

http://blog.wowzers.com/bid/275662/Blended-Learning-Environments-Enhance-ELL-ESL-Progress

Shared site which shares information about technology: in education using Blended Learning and other to enhance learning for the ELL/ESL student.

http://www.slideshare.net/sandracosta0/blended-learning-technologies-in-esl-classroom

The key idea behind blended learning is that students have some control over time, pace, path, and place. Allowing students to take some control of their learning increases their motivation to learn and allows them the time needed to work through the material.

http://blog.edmentum.com/blended-learning-effective-model-english-language-learners

Blended Learning in an ESL Class: A Case Study

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mpolat/articles/article1.pdf


A general definition of blended learning is a combination of face-to-face and computermediated instruction. Blended learning is seen as natural evolution of the learning agenda and even as the most important advancements of this century . Blended learning “may even become so ubiquitous that we will eventually drop the word blended and just call it learning.” 

High School Career Counseling Goes Blended

EJ Carrion, the co-founder of the Student Success Academy (SSA), noticed at his high school internship the challenges guidance counselors faced on a daily basis. The counselors were overwhelmed and did not have enough time in the day to assist students in college and career counseling. According to Jessica Slusser, "On average most students spend 38 minutes with a guidance counselor."

The Student Success Academy (SSA) have consultants who provide guidance to students by assisting them in finding college and career opportunities as well as helping students create and follow an action plan. The online curriculum offers resume building tools, test taking advice, college planning and interview advice.  The Success consultants are college students who attend one of the top 150 colleges in the country. They were selected because of their leadership skills, philanthropy and academic performance. All consultants have received scholarships, hold a leadership at their college/university and have experienced a professional internship.  SSA consultants spend approximately 12 hours a year with students. EJ Carrion and the Student Success Academy believe guidance counselors are stilled need. This curriculum is not to replace guidance counselors, but to help counselors have more time to be more involved in each student’s action plan.

Currently, the Student Success Academy is involved with 9 schools and work with over 250 students. According to Jessica Slusser, “Out of the first 150 students who went through the program, 92% were able to find a local mentor in their career field and 98% of students say they now have a plan after high school. Many students who’ve gone through the program moved up in their class and even students at risk not to graduate completed their diplomas.” The Student Success Academy hopes to be in every high school and to have every junior be matched up with a SSA consultant.

http://gettingsmart.com/2013/07/high-school-career-counseling-goes-blended/

Hola again,

As an ESL teacher, I have been using iPad, apps and laptops in my classroom for years. The students are motivated and there are tons of apps to support reading, writing and speaking for new arrival students. I am especially looking forward to the students having the Chromebooks and being able to work from home on computers, rather than doing homework on their phones.

I was excited to be able to be part of the group that met for a technology conference this summer. First train ride and it was awesome! However, after attending the ESTE conference in Philadelphia (where I might add, I had my first Philly steak sandwich and LOVED it, although I was skeptical about the Cheez Whiz), I was disappointed in the lack of attention given to limited English proficiency students in the area of technology. Out of the hundreds of lectures, classes, seminars, discussions and sessions, only three were either directly or indirectly addressing the English language learner. Using Chrome to support ELL, ESL and Struggling Readers, Digital Storytelling: Apps that get ELL's Talking and, Using Technology to address the needs of students in Poverty. I spoke to countless sponsors, presenters and educators who all agreed that there was a very clear void in this area.

I would be amazing if we could present at ESTE next year, using the Blended Learning model with the ESL students. Hmmmm...something to ponder...

Research on Blended Learning/Counseling

Findings on Blended Learning/ School Counseling

From Proof Points: Blended Learning Success in School Districts In Salt Lake City were losing 10% of students every year. Now after 3 years of blended learning at the selected high school  their graduation rate rode to 89% which was higher than the district’s and state as a whole.

Used the Flex model of blended learning. Students attend school every day but at their own selected time between 7am-5pm. Important relationships were teachers establishing mentoring relationships with students. School Counselors work with students to personalize their education plan by setting career goals and choosing which courses are most appropriate online, face to face, and/or community college courses. Test scores showed improvement in math. English Language Arts scores were mixed. some grades improved, others stayed flat or declined.

http://www.christenseninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Innovations-Early-College-High-School.pdf

EJ Carrion, co-founder of Student Success Academy (SSA), realized first-hand the problems school counselors face with a one to 500, counselor-student ratio on average. Counselors often feel over-worked and do not have enough time to help prepare students to be college or career ready. Carrion developed Success Consultants (SCs) in  his SSA.  SCs can spend an average of 12 hours with each student a year while on average counselors are only able to spend 38 minutes with each student.

“SC’s are college students hand selected from the top 150 colleges in the country and are chosen because of their leadership, philanthropy, and academic performance. Each consultant working for SSA holds a leadership position on their campus, has received scholarships, and has participated in professional internships. This experience allows SC’s to provide guidance to HS students, help them realize their passions, identify college or career opportunities, and assist them in moving forward with specific action plans” (J. Slusser)

It is important to note that SCs do not take the place of counselors; they simply free up time for counselors to track student success and be more involved with every student's’ action plan. As with blended learning face to face time and a hands on approach is still vital.  

A pep rally kicks off SSA to get students and staff excited, about blended learning/counseling.

“ Out of the first 150 students who went through the program, 92% were able to find a local mentor in their career field and 98% of students say they now have a plan after high school. Many students who’ve gone through the program moved up in their class and even students at risk not to graduate completed their diplomas.”  (J. Slusser)

SSA hopes to grow and extend its assistance with scholarships, test prep, etc.

http://gettingsmart.com/2013/07/high-school-career-counseling-goes-blended/

Greetings & Salutations

I'm finally in this blog! I apologize for the lateness, but due to extenuating circumstances (beach, flip flops, vacation, ice-cream, picnics, sand castles, etc.) I...well...you know...

Be right back...

After meeting with Paul and discussing my plan for implementation, I was able to spend some time researching potential software that I could use in my blended classroom. I definitely feel like this exploration is a work in progress, and that I will continue to seek out and utilize additional programs throughout the year, but here is a list of what I am planning to launch (or continue to use) in my classroom when school begins:

1. Edmodo
2. Listen Current
3. Gooru
4. Google Drive
5. americanrhetoric.com... This is a website that I have used for years in the AP Language course.  It is a great resource to use in the Research Techniques and Public Speaking courses also.

After reading all your blogposts, doing endless amounts of research and meeting with Paul I am equal parts excited and overwhelmed. However, I feel we have all echoed that sentiment and have come up with a variety of ways to combat overwhelming ourselves and (even worse possibility) the students.

I am in the same boat as Kaitlin Sullivan and I plan to start from day one in a station rotation model. Even without the technology present yet I want to make this the norm for the class room. One station will be individual practice or perhaps partner practice. I also had a similar idea as Kaitlin in that I want to eventually have this station be the project station for the unit. The other station will be small group instruction. I voiced my concerns to Paul Griswold in our meeting that it is hard to figure out each day who should start in what station and how to break up the day for the students, especially in foreign language where many times prerequisite skills must be explicitly taught before students can learn through applying these skills. This lead me to think that maybe I will break up the week with one day being whole class instruction then the other days will be that authentic practice the students need to develop their language abilities in all four modalities. I have not quite figured out how I want to go about doing this. Paul gave good advice about making it a norm to project the two groups on the smart board so they know where to go each day.  In the first couple weeks of school once things settle down we will make expectations as a class on how to get the best learning out of the rotation schedule and practice these expectations regularly.

I've been reading a lot about once the chrome books  are in the classroom how to go about introducing all the new technology features I hope my students will come to utilize effectively. I would like to have an initial "launch day" once everything is in place. Danielle and Diana mentioned the organization of passwords and I found similar ideas on Pinterest that I plan to implement so there are no excuses.

I want to use either Edmodo or Google Classroom as my home base for the students. I don't really like Edmodo but I know how to use it and I know other teachers are using it more often so I feel the students will have a better grasp on it. I am still new to and learning about Google Classroom but from my research I feel it has more to offer. I am also hoping to have my students throughout the year developing a portfolio and I feel Google Classroom has more opportunity to do this.

I also plan on using Class Dojo which can be utilized through cell phones on an app. I really like this app because it allows you to real time (quickly and easily) keep a running record of students behavior in  class as well as tardies / absences. Once you create your class each student has a code and a parent code so everyone can be on the same page in monitoring that students progress. It also allows you to customize your feedback to the students. It's a little goofy in appearance but I think it offers a valuable tracking system that is easy to use and can be referred to at any time to help students reflect.

As far as how the stations will play out each day I have almost too many ideas and possible tools I want to use but the general idea is to get the students to be engaged and creatively demonstrate their knowledge through reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Engaging students

I hope I am not the only one feeling slightly (ok, more than slightly), overwhelmed with all the wonderful ideas whirling around about blended learning. I know this is not a magical process and it will not all come together without a hitch on the first day of school. But I really want to be an expert. I want to provide the best learning environment for my students and have a highly engaged classroom that hums and buzzes with positive energy and experiences.

After reading many of the posts here on the blog, I have some renewed hope in accomplishing my goals for this year. However, my main concern is how will students receive all of this? All too often we, as educators, determine what the next best thing is and then impart it on our students expecting miraculous results and engagement. The students are usually less than enthusiastic.

I have found two great articles from Nellie Mae that have helped me to process and consider how I might go about incorporating blended learning WITH my students this year. As this will be my first year at JMA I really want to revamp my teaching style and allow my students to truly own their own learning. However, in order for them to own it, they have to help create it. First, I will be utilizing this resource, http://www.whatkidscando.org/pdf/FirstAsk,ThenListen.pdf, to LISTEN to what my students have to say about their past learning experiences and what they would like to see and learn this year and moving forward. In conjunction, there was another article from Nellie Mae that provided seven activities to help engage students in preparing for a blended learning environment. I plan to use these activities as well. http://www.flippedclassroomworkshop.com/7-activities-to-develop-self-directed-learning/.

My understanding is that at JMA we will be preparing for implementation during the first quarter of the year and these tools will be helpful as a way to involve our students in this process. I will also use this first quarter of the year to test out some of the great tools I have learned about through our meetings and the great posts you have all shared.

Susan Johnston

Getting ready!!!

My objectives for this year, 

After doing my reading I am completely sure that I will continue working as I have been doing, the key difference now is the pace and time dedicated to my lesson plans and class development. 

The lab rotation model is most suitable for me since I am teaching a foreign language and all tools online are my allies.

I expect my students develop self-direction motivated by the different ways to achieve their goals. That is why I am sure the blended learning strategies will challenge them to use their skills in order to increase and improve their knowledge.  Some videos examples watched about Lab rotation model showed me that I could implement this step-by-step in my classroom.

 For example, while some students practice the listening or speaking ability in the computer lab, some others have face-to-face instruction in the next room.

Setting up lab rotation model of blended learning will challenge my students to achieve new ways about solving problems and going through topics complexity.

https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/ssf-cci/sscc-intro-blended-learning/sscc-blended-learning-models/v/sscc-blended-lab

I will be very persistent with the culture of blended learning classroom during this year. My students already know how to work with some tools online; however, I will have them reinforce their practice every class to create the culture of this knew way of learning.

 Since I started my work at Bulkeley high I have used mainly this platform REALIDADES.com

http://www.pearsonschool.com/index.cfm?locator=PS22Oo

It has variety of activities to engage student’s self-learning activity. It takes time at beginning of the year to set up emails (I use email from the school) and passwords, but then the work just flows.  

Getting ready for this challenging but rewarding New Year!

Here are some platforms to create lessons plans and activities for our students:

https://schoolshape.com/

https://padlet.com/

We are ready: Teaching to the Common Core State Standards Using Blended Instruction.

Hello everyone, doing my research I found this interesting video about:

Teaching to the Common Core State Standards Using Blended Instruction.

It’ s an explanation about how we can go over all this new and enrichment process in the education now. The idea of computer-based and teacher’s stations will allow students to improve their knowledge in greater depth because of the immediate feedback and several opportunities to build the new concepts

http://www.schooltube.com/video/ae1cacaf88c144edbbaf/Teaching%20to%20the%20Common%20Core%20State%20Standards%20Using%20Blended%20Instruction

 Also, here is an example of case study about how to implement blended learning in Spanish. That allows me to implement more ideas about in my classes. http://www.nais.org/Articles/Pages/Case-Study-Blended-Learning-in-Spanish-V.aspx

STARTING IT UP!!!

So I'm going to pretend that this post is for all of you, but please know that this is 1000% for me alone, and it will serve as a table of contents of sorts for my future forays into Blended Learning.
That said, if any of you find any worth in what I post, I suppose that's not the worst thing in the world.

How to Implement a Station Rotation Blended Learning Model
This is a pretty straightforward information guide including what to include, how to include it, what a classroom using station rotation looks like, and what the mission and learning goals should be. This is a good tool if you are at the beginning of the implementation process.

Tech Tools of the Flipped Classroom
This resource gives a straightforward breakdown of what a flipped classroom should have, and the best way to go about using it. This includes information like how to create, host, and interact using videos, among other things.

10 Teacher-Tested Tools for Flipping Your Classroom
This site has tools that teachers have used successfully in the flipped classroom model. It features three iPad/iPhone apps, and seven cloud/desktop apps. Although BHS students may not have access to iPad's or iPhones through school, they may have them on their own, so they can take advantage of both.

8 Great Free Flipped Classroom Resources
Similar to the above resource, this provides teachers with free tools useful for flipped classrooms. Some are more universal (Edmodo), but some I did not know about until this research (Tackk)

Five-Minute Film Festival: The Basics of Blended Learning
While this is more of an overall show of what blended learning is, it is still valuable, and it contains many useful tools and guides to the implementation of this type of learning in the classroom.


Well, that's what I've got for now, but because of my new found appreciation for and knowledge of Blogspot, I know that this is absolutely a fluid document, that I can and will edit when I come up with more tools.

Implementation
My goal when implementing will initially be to use station rotation model at least twice a week.  I had a chance to become more comfortable with edmodo over the summer and will be using a combination of edmodo and khan academy which I have used in the past as well.  I am a fan of standards based grading and would like to see a khan/edmodo option as one way (out of three) to show mastery of a topic.i also found that edmodo is a great hub to use for students who are doing we quests and project based learning.

I am excited to attend the "mathcamp" that is being offered by the district this school year. Many different free resources are going to be presented and I am interested in talking to other teachers across our very own district to hear how they have implemented technology in their math classes.