Welcome back! And happy Friday-eve! We've got a pretty short Roundup for you today and we'll start over at Getting Smart with Alison Anderson's new post, "Back to School: Ten Tech Tips for Team Building with Parents." In the article they cover ten excellent and easy ways to use technology to connect with parents. Host a website, write a blog, create podcast newsletters, send texts, and so on. Plus they've got links to great resources to help get your ideas off the ground!
Emerging Ed Tech has a new discussion and review of three "Educational Apps that Teach Young Students about Money Management." These apps are awesome for home use or for in a business, accounting, or even an elementary or middle school math class. They review iAllowance, Savings Spree, and P2K Money.
Free Tech for Teachers has five new posts to check out:
iLearn Technology has an excellent review of "Rewordify: Help Kids Understand What They Read." Rewordify is an online app that is designed to help struggling readers and ESL/ELL students "improve their reading comprehensions and vocabulary development." It's an excellent app to check out if you're looking for something to help struggling readers.
Educational Technology has four new posts to check out:
Finally, Beth Holland at Edutopia has an excellent new post entitled, "Didn't Your Mother Tell You Not to Google." In the article, Holland discusses the educational problems that can arise from "googling" or "siri-ing" everything we have questions about. There are tons of educational resources that are better at finding age and subject-appropriate information and Holland discusses quite a few in her write-up.
The Lightning Round...
- Getting Smart shares their new Smart List: 30 Next-Gen Literacy, Language & Math Resources
- Teach Thought covers A Really, Really Well-Written Set of Classroom Rules
- Ed Reach has a new podcast on Haiku Deck and Your iPad 1:1
- Mind/Shift gives us 10 Ideas to Get Those Back-to-School Juices Flowing
- Edudemic discusses Every Gmail Shortcut You Never New Existed
And there you have it! Roundup complete! Thanks for reading and we'll be back either on Sunday night or Monday afternoon with the weekend Roundup. See you then!
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