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Mimio is a company that makes interactive technologies for the classroom. The interactive whiteboard is similar to a smartboard except it just attaches to the teachers exisiting whiteboard magnetically. Students or teachers can use the pens to write on the board and control the computer screen by using the whiteboard. Mimio also makes a reading tutorial called MimioSprout. This helps children from kindergarten to second grade with reading. This website meets standard 6.1 because it allows students to use interactive technology in the classroom. It also allows students to further their education while playing games and doing activities on Mimio Sprout. The white board would allow teachers to use technology in a positive way to have students interact during a lesson instead of just listening to the teacher. With the interactive white board, students can get up and interact with the teacher and their peers.

Standard 6.6- Candidates use technology to effectively communicate with students, parents, and colleagues. Shutterfly.com is a website where teachers can create their own personalized classroom website for free. Teachers can use their own website to post pictures of their students so the parent feels part of their day, as well as posting homework and important dates for parents and students to refer too.

Use this link to 23 Things rather than the one in D2L to avoid having the "elearn" address.

Listed below are 23 Things (or activities) for you to do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0 tools. If you are a student enrolled in APSU EDUC 3040/5611, you must complete all 23 items on this list by the date listed on your syllabus in order to to receive credit for this assignment.

Scitable is an awesome interactive resource for anyone who loves science. It is an online science library that has hundreds of articles, databases, and other resources. Whether you are doing research for a paper, or joining in on a discussion with experts or peers, Sitable is a easy to use web 2.0 site. It goes along with standard 6.5 in that it allows you to gather, sort, and analyze information while also giving you the ability to share what you have learned with others.

I chose this website because I think it a good tool for students, and teachers to use. It provides a category for education that contains a variety of different websites and videos. This meets standard 6.4 by using it to find different ways to study. Also it has teaching strategies as well as web 2.0 for the classroom, and apps for education. All these things helps students and teachers improve on their educational practice.

Quizlet is a website that allows the teacher and students to study topics via quizzes, flash cards, etc.

Quizlet is an online learning tool for students and teachers that lets the user study a variety of subjects for free. It allows teachers to create quizzes and practice questions for their students based upon the material being taught in class. Students can then go online and take these quizzes or complete these practice questions to study. Quizlet can be used both inside and outside of the classroom and provides both teachers and students with a fun and interactive method of integrating technology into learning.

These are the apps 3040 students have recommended for use in K-12 classrooms. This will be updated each semester.

Look at all of those apps, I need to get started downloading!

This site is great for different grade levels. Awesome Library organizes 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent for teachers, students, parents, and librarians. It includes a search engine.

This social bookmarking site is a good example of an emerging resource for teachers.

If we don't effectively integrate technology into education -- even at the lowest levels -- we are doing a great disservice to a students and failing to provide them with the skills most relevant to the jobs they will do and the lives they will lead.

Another Free Comic Strip Generator.  I had to share, I had so much fun with the one's I used for our 23 things.

Grades K-12 + Lesson Plans + Activities + videos + current events

The timelines site - create timelines