More than 9,000 clips from the BBC on many topics available for free and organized. You can peruse this list of clips which are also attached to lesson plans and activities. If you’re looking for high quality video, this is a great free resources.

Congratulations to Linda Yollis and her third grade students. If you’re a teacher considering blogging, she’s one to emulate.

Lots of downloadable presentations, cards, math activities, and assemblies for Valentine’s day on Tuesday. Great site for teachers, I highly recommend joining. (Disclosure: I do work for TES promoting their resources, but signed on to do it because they share free resources that are curated by teachers and it is the largest network of English speaking teachers in the world.)

Grades 6-12 students can create a PSA storyboard or script - winning student can travel to New York to watch a professional film crew bring their PSA to life. Very cool.

Not just for polling, this free app will let you send notifications to students and parents and interject a poll as you need to. (i.e. how many of you are coming to open house tomorrow night.) Very cool. I’m doing this.

The description of the book will update some time next week to include the really great reviews we have from Thomas Friedman and many education pioneers. It is very exciting and we’re very grateful for our friends who’ve read and given us feedback. This book is such a dream and a long time since the five years a go we started the Flat Classroom project with 23 students.

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