View Pure to display YouTube content in class.

Watch YouTube videos without comments, ads, or other distractions. Don't forget for our GAFE users embedding YouTube videos into your google slides will do the same thing!

Other ways to display web videos without the comments and advertising.

Thanks to 
Free Technology for Teachers  for the update to viewpure

Web Search Tutorials for Students

Vaughn Memorial Library at Acadia University hosts a series of four free animated tutorials designed to teach students lessons on web research strategies. The 1. Credible Sources Count students learn how to recognize the validity of information on the Internet. It's a good tutorial except for a strong emphasis on using domain names for determining validity. 

2. Research It Right walks students through the process of forming a research question through the actual research steps. 

3. Searching With Success shows students how search engines function. The tutorial gives clear examples and directions for altering search terms. 

4. You Quote It, You Note It shows students what plagiarism is and how to avoid accidentally plagiarizing someone's work.

The Kentucky Virtual Library hosts an interactive map of the research process for students. The map, titled How To Do Research, walks students through the research process from start to finish with every step along the way. One of the things about this map that school librarians will like is that it is not focused solely on web research. How To Do Research includes a good section about using library catalogs, books, and magazines.

Thanks to Rich Byrne at  http://www.freetech4teachers.com

NYS Common Core App

NYS Common Core App.  Assessible, Searchable and Updated for free! for your iOS google and android devices.  Search for “MasteryConnect” in your favorite app store. Click on the app icon on the left for more information.

Virtual Nerd: Real math help

Virtual Nerd provides over 1,500 tutorials video lessons covering Middle Grades Math through Algebra 2 and Geometry.

• 400 tutorials in Middle School Math, organized by topic.
• 703 tutorials in Algebra 1, organized by topic
• 690 in Pre-Algebra, organized by topic.
• 528 in Algebra 2, organized by topic
• 262 in Geometry, organized by topic.

In addition there are 1359 Virtual Nerd tutorials in Common Core State Standards, organized by topic as well as SAT and ACT Math topics. Each video provides links to background tutorials and notes for each session can be printed.

Socrative Free Student Response System for BYOD

Free easy to use student response system. Students can BYOD and and join the learning. Engage the entire classroom with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time. Interact with the data to further student understanding in the moment, and review the reports to prepare for future classes. Platforms: Web, iPhone, iPad, Android Phone, Android Tablet

Most Popular Activities:

• Short Answer Questions: Ask an open-ended question. Students respond and all their answers populate your screen for projection. Then ask students to vote on their favorite and watch the results come in.
• Quick Quiz: A teacher paced or student paced activity with multiple choice and/or short answer questions. Results can be viewed question by question and exported to a report that is automatically aggregated and graded.
• Create a Quiz: Design your own Quick Quizzes with our built in feature or import them with our Excel template. Share with your community!
• Space Race: Teams of students answer multiple choice questions in this fast-paced rocket race game. First team to get their rocket across the screen wins! You'll get a graded report!
• Exit Tickets: Get a quick, paper-free pulse-check at the end of class. All answers are aggregated into a report!
• Multiple Choice: Ask a MC question, and see student responses on the projection screen as a bar chart.

Video tutorials on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-4WCq4RZPs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK8CV_MKlis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww4NVEs1MqE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGhA1ekzaks

Free Tutorials for MS Office, OpenOffice and GoogleDocs inpictures

Thanks to inpictures, these tutorials are available for free to educators:

The company creates illustration-based computer tutorials that are free for any teacher or student to use. Around the Corner readers might appreciate knowing about them.
The tutorials are available at www.inpics.net. They were developed through a research study funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
We've recently created many new tutorials, several on Google Drive applications. Considering the rapid adoption of Google Apps in schools, this might be of interest to readers of your blog. 

That aside, you may want to check these tutorials out. Although MS Office and OpenOffice tutorials are available, you can also find some for:

Google Drive Apps

Google DocsGoogle SheetsGoogle Slides

Excellent Google Drive Resources for Teachers - GAFE

This is a  list of excellent resources to help teachers make the best of Google Drive in their classrooms. I firmly believe that Google Drive is one of the elemental web tools with huge educational potential that every teacher should be able to tap into.The resources in this link cover many of the "hidden" features of the Google Drive.

For more GAFE help go to  https://support.google.com/ and click on the item you would like more information on.