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6.4 Candidates use technology in their own learning process and to change their current educational practice. The Library of Congress Online offers a Teacher's Resource page that provides self-paced modules for professional development with completion certificate awarded, links to classroom materials that meet the educational standards of each state, lesson plans, a blog for teachers, and much more. I recommend completing the Introduction to the Library of Congress Module under Professional Development as a starting point.

I chose this website because I feel that it is a site that students, teachers, and parents would benefit from. It is an Award-winning educational software and technology professional development to help students develop essential 21st century skills with project-based learning.

This website is an excellent resource for educators to reference when teaching their class about safe web-surfing practices, copyright laws, etc. Teachers can also find a detailed description of what "technology ethics" means, why schools need to teach it, and the most effective ways to do it. Teachers also have access to a list of books and articles, as well as handouts for instructor and student use. The author also gives an example of guidelines regarding technology use that all schools should adopt.

Education.com is an education and child development site for parents, but can be very useful for teachers as well. It has grade specific information for all grades such as social, emotional, and academic development for the children, and it has links to worksheets and activities.

Education World offers an educator a website to find numerous teaching tools. This website provides links and outlets to resources available on the internet. The professional development section of the website gives teachers countless ideas for improving their educational practice.

As the leading provider of speech-generating devices, our mission is to enable individuals of all ages to develop a greater quality of life through communication, self-expression and independence. Funding is available for your DynaVox device! An exciting virtual learning experience that will help support individuals with significant communication challenges. Dynavox meets the standard because it is an assistive technology for any person who has communication problems. I chose this particular technology because my step-son is non-verbal and we have tried using the device with him.

Speakaboos allows children to develop literacy skills while learning about technology in a safe and fun environment. It also presents teachers and parents with worksheets and lesson plans.

This website offers teachers, parents and students resources for use in the classroom and at home. Resources include lesson plans, strategy guides, activities and more. 6.4 Candidate use technology in their own learning process and to change their current educational practice. I believe this website met the 6.4 standard because it educates teachers on innovative ways to set up lessons and activities in the classroom. This website also offers teachers educational websites which show them how to incorporate technology into their lessons.

This website has a ton of different ways for a special education teacher to use an iPhone, iPod, or iPad in the classroom. The website provides 200 apps that can be used by special educators. The website breaks the apps down into categories such as productivity apps, fine motor development, early intervention and organization and scheduling apps. Each app that this website provides also gives a short description of what the app does and a link to the app store for it.

This website goes along with Standard 6.1 by providing teachers with multiple ways to enhance their classroom. There are free worksheets to print out, many links to other websites to get educational material, educational games, and more. It has lesson plan ideas sorted by subject area and even emergency lessons for substitutes to keep students engaged. As a beginning professional, you can look at tips on how to write a lesson plan and improve it as well.

If knowledge was power this site would be invincible. With countless free lesson plans, activities, and games for both students and teachers this site has it all while adhering to standard 6.1.

Teachnology.com is a teacher's resource site that offers educational and instructional tools for teachers. This site reflects Standard 6.5, because this site features research in educational topics and teacher development, student and teacher safe search engines, information in educational technology, teacher newsletters, and teacher forums that allow teachers to communicate on updates and ideas in the educational world. Teachnology.com also offers classroom resources such as lessonplans, worksheets, templates for graphic organizers, and rubrics that can be used in the class.

PBS Teachers has a variety of resources for teachers, free of charge, including lessons plans and access to PBS programing filtered by subject area. Members also have access to teacher discounts through the PBS store.

Find teaching resources and program information such as episode descriptions and educational learning goals for PBS KIDS shows. Also includes professional development opportunities for all teachers.

This is a wonderful article that addresses all aspects of classroom assessment and how it can benefit teachers and students. It covers methods of assessment, appropriate times assessment should be administered, and how to develop and implement assessment tasks. This is a great, comprehensive source for learning how to interpret and utilize assessment in the classroom in order to improve the experience for all.

This was a very neat website showing webquests for K-12 grades. Webquests help to supplement instructional strategies in the classroom. This website shows you how to actually create a webquest and it also has ones already designed and you can use those instead of developing your own. These are very fun and very educational!

This website offers resources geared toward continuing professional development for teachers through reflective practice.