The Book Chook Blog carries a helpful review of the free web-based drawing tool Klowdz. It's a nifty drawing tool, but with a twist. After starting, you're given a photo of clouds. Find different shapes in the clouds, then use the simple drawing tools to create your vision. You can easily change photos if you have trouble finding shapes to play with. It's interesting to see what two different students can see in a cloud! Use Klowdz to kick-start to a lesson, and get students thinking creatively.

Many states in the U.S. in the past year have passed anti-bullying legislation, requiring more vigilance than ever from educators on the topic of bullying, and specifically cyberbullying. Many state statutes now say that educators must report and/or address cyberbullying even if it happens away from school, if it affects the learning climate of the classroom. Not sure where to start? Common Sense Media has put together an amazingly thorough, accessible and easy-to-use K-12 curriculum to address cyberbullying. Available to teachers for free is a Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators. Help your students become leaders, not bullies, and help kids to stand-up, instead of standing by.

The Educational Technology Guy is reporting a fun new interactive game focusing on teaching students Agriculture, called My American Farm. This would fit nicely into a producer/consumer unit, a unit on food & nutrition, or of course, agricultural sciences. Sponsored by the American Farm Bureau, it contains 13 free games that correspond to math, science, or social studies standards. 

It's not your ordinary dictionary. This clever app can help your students edit writing projects with voice search, an integrated thesaurus, and sample sentences. This app also offers audio pronunciations and can keep track of all of the words you have looked up. All this, and it's FREE. Available for iPad, iPhone, iTouch and Android.