Top 10 Online Stories
1 Five Leadership Questions to Finish (and Start) the School Year with
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Steven W. Anderson suggests leaders take time to examine past successes and changes for the future.
2 Seven Steps to Web Site Evaluation for Students
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Michael Gorman shares his tips to help students effectively evaluate Web sites.
3 Google+ Summer Camp
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Maker Camp, a free online summer camp for kids on Google+, spends six weeks covering making, hacking, STEM learning and experimenting.
4 5 Free Summer Professional Development Resources from ASCD
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J Robinson shares details about these in-depth professional development resources.
5 STEM Video Game Challenge
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The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop names 16 middle school and high school students as the winners of the 2013 National STEM Video Game Challenge.
6 Video Tutorial: Google Docs Advanced Spreadsheet Features
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This introduction to Google Spreadsheets Workshop details the topics to be covered, such as filtering and validating data.
7 Site of the Day: PEEP and the Big Wide World
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This site is a great way to teach about how things move.
8 40 Sites & Apps for Creating Presentations
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David Kapuler lists some of his favorite tools for creating quality presentations and slideshows.
9 From the Principal’s Office Our Schools by Changing Mindsets Not by Buying More Technology
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J Robinson argues that our relentless pursuit for a magical formula that will suddenly transform our schools is a fruitless quest.
10 Gym Class Can Go High- Tech, Too
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Guest Blogger Jason Hahnstadt explains how he flipped his PE classes.