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This was a fabulous article on how to break the ice with the kids on the first couple days of school. It was geared more toward the younger kids and the kids just starting kindergarten that may not know many people if an in that school. My favorite ice breaker was to blob. Where the kids make themselves into a blob based on their likes and characteristics.

This site provides great resources related to inclusion in the regular education setting.

tinyurl.com/keh4lu8

http://edupln.ning.com/video/integrate-blogs-in-english-teacher-professional-development?xg_source=shorten_twitter

This particular entry on the website The Educator's PLN:The Personal Learning Network for Educators is a video which includes advis\ce for educators who want to add the use of blogs to secondary English classrooms.  The video includes practicle, real world suggestions for introducing this use of social media to the ELA classroom.  SPM

Free educational resources for K-12 teachers, parents and students. Many categories of interactive sites aligned with CCSS and state standards.

http://www.mrswideen.com/2015/06/creating-authentic-ipad-learning.html 

An article that explains ways to use iPads in primary classrooms beyond merely selecting apps and handing the devices over to the students. 

Essential Ipad Apps

This article provides a list of some great Ipad apps for teachers with their own Ipad. Most of this article is focused on teacher organization tools, but there are links to other articles that have apps that are more student directed. The one that I would like to try on this list is Stick Pick, which is an app where you can put in all the student's names and it randomly picks names for activities (like virtual popsicle sticks).

http://special-ism.com/oh-the-things-you-can-do-with-an-ipad/

This article gives some useful ideas of different things you can do with the ipad in a classroom setting.

Ipads in Primary Classroom

This article focuses on case studies that have used Ipads as a motivational tool and resource for students doing different projects. What is great about it, is that it is really recent, and seems to be updated frequently with new ideas and studies about using the Ipad in a classroom setting. There are also many links to other articles focused on Ipads in primary classrooms. I think that this would be helpful to teachers with a set of Ipads in their room.