Attention Educator friends, colleagues, and PLN -
The Bunnies want YOU to join our SimpleK12 family.  We’re looking for Guest Bloggers to share their thoughts, advice and expertise with our readers.  Whether you’re a seasoned blogger or just getting started, here’s a great opportunity to showcase your work.  The content of your post is up to you – but it must be related to the field of education.
Topics we’re looking for:
If you’re familiar with the SimpleK12 blog, it’s not hard to tell what we like to blog about.  But …

The following is a guest post from Jesse Black, a third year Primary School teacher at Mount Sinai College in Sydney, Australia.
Do Poor Teachers Set Students Back Years?
I read an interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Andrew Stevenson entitled “Poor Teachers Set Students Back Years.” My first thought was do they mean “poor” as in under-resourced or do they mean “poor” as in under-performing? The answer, at first, seemed to be strictly the latter. The article opens with a short list of …

The following is a guest post from Frank Sapp, an Assistive Technology Specialist for Touch the Future, an Assistive Technology Resource Center in Tucker, GA.
5 Programs for Students with Learning Disabilities
It’s very frustrating to students to set up their favorite programs exactly the way they need them especially if the students have learning disabilities. AND the programs are assistive technology.
Now there is a way to take it with them and keep them happy with assistive technology that works for them.
The following applications below will run on a USB …

The following is a guest post from Kay Cantwell, an Education Officer of Digital Learning at Brisbane Catholic Education in Brisbane Area, Australia.
13 Reasons Teachers Should Use Diigo
Diigo stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff.” It is a social bookmarking program that allows you to save your ‘favorites’ online, so that they can be accessible from any computer with an internet connection. However, Diigo does much more than this.
So…here are 13 reasons every teacher should use Diigo:

Diigo provides a free, efficient, effective and …

The following is a guest post from Steve Katz, who currently teaches social studies and is the middle school technology integration specialist at Korea International School in Seoul, Korea.
37 Teacher Favorite iPad Apps
I collected a list of favorite iPad apps that were shared by attendees at the 5th @pple Meetup on Friday, September 23 at Apple Korea Headquarters. If you are a progressive educator who is integrating technology in your classroom in Korea & would like to be invited to future Meetups, please leave a comment on the @pple Meetup …

The following is a guest post from Pernille Ripp, a 5th grade teacher in Middleton, Wisconsin.
10 Thoughts on Professional Development

Why do we even call it professional development? Being in education is so much more than just being a professional and development happens continually around us. Perhaps we should call it something different like expanding as an educator or how about just growth? Either professional development smacks of something that can only happent at a set time and is just not true, which leads me to …

We received such a great response to our last guest post about interactive ways to awaken students in the classroom that we decided to share more.
In the first post, “Top 10 Ways to Wake-up Students in Class”, Michelle Doman shared some great tips and tricks she uses in her own Middle School classroom to keep students engaged… and now, we’ve brought her back to share some more ideas!

10 MORE Ways to Wake-up Students in Class
Upon returning from break, students’ necks are craning, eyes focusing on…not the teacher, but the swirling …