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This website is a free social networking site that allows teachers and students to engage in collaborative projects and learning assignments with others from around the world. Teachers can set up virtual classrooms and grant their students monitored e-mail accounts, with parental permission of course, in order for them to interact with other students from all over the globe. For instance, while studying about the rain forest the class may connect with another classroom that lives in the rain forest. This website also allows the teacher to involve parents in the process of learning by adding them to the class network. Parents can monitor their child's academic progress and also receive the classroom newsletter. One aspect about the website that is extremely helpful is the translation tool. This allows teachers the opportunity to have conversations with parents in their native language.

This website meets the standard 6.4 because the information it provides could help teachers to see in what area they need to change their educational practices, and they could do it through their own learning process. It is used to document and exhibit the progress of America's students in various areas over time.This website has so much to offer to educators! I have used it in several presentations that I have done in my other education classes; thus far, the information has been accurate and highly intriguing to myself and others.

www.inspiringteachers.com is a website that teachers can use to find tips, ideas, and general inspiration to use in their classrooms. It is set up in a way that is beneficial to many teachers as you can choose to filter the information to the specific type of teaching you do or how long you have been teaching. It contains loads of helpful information for teachers whether they have just started out or have been teaching for decades. This relates to standard 6.4 because part of using technology in our classrooms and to change our educational practice is finding information and inspiration and this website has a lot of good information all in one place.

This is a great way for teachers to communicate with students, parents and other teachers. It allows the teacher to post a calendar of events, announcements, and homework assignments in a way that parents an students can view the information from anywhere that they have internet access. It also allows them to view ideas from other teachers and share their ideas with teachers. The site has a search bar that searches your topic in only educational websites as well.

Parents and students can also choose to be notified each time that their teacher makes a change to the webpage, making it easier for them to stay in tuned to what is happening in class.

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.

ABC ya! is a great website to incorporate technology in your classroom. This website includes fun games and enrichment activities for Elementary schools Kindergarten through fifth grade. After a student has completed their assignment, they can log on to this site and do grade based activities that are fun and educational. All of these games are free to play.

ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

ABCYa.com is an interactive children's website, loaded with fun games and activities to help children learn and practice reading, math, grammar, spelling, history, geography and more. This site is free and there are tons of games to choose from, and you choose the grade level to play them at. At the end of each game the easy to read results give you a clear understanding of how you did in the game and where you need more practice at. I will be introducing this site to my own children, and will incorporate it into my classroom for my students as well. I highly recommend this site.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

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Wordle is a tool that generates tool clouds from a selected text.

This site allows both the teacher and student to watch hundreds of free documentaries. It gives the teacher a opportunity to learn about various topics they may be presenting in class it also gives the student the ability to watch quality documentaries assigned by the teacher without having to do so in the classroom. Students and teachers can use ipads, iphones, androids, kindle,xbox and many other devices. There are also opportunites to submit your own documentary which could be used as a class project to change and expand the educational practices of both student and teachers. Previews to assigned films can be embeded in a teacher's website or blog.

Coursecracker.com is a very useful website for teachers to use in order to stay connected with students, parents, and other teachers. This website allows teachers to set up a class page. They can then post assignments on there for students to access in case a student misses class. Teachers can have a calendar on the class page which can help students keep up with when their assignments are due. Teachers can also send notifications to parents and students through email. Teachers can also talk to other teachers to discuss different topics. The standard for this website is Standard 6.6 which deals with using technology to effectively communicate with students, parents, and colleagues.

Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education. This collection exists in order to make on-line Special Education resources more easily and readily available in one location. This is a very safe and ethical way to inform teachers about students with special needs.

This website is for the teachers to be able to assess data in the classroom regarding student learning. It can also be used to guide classroom decisions when you know where the students are at academically. This website gives clarity in what should be taught and learned in each grade as well.

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.

Standard 6.7 This site is one for any grade level of teaching. It has compiled thousands of free worksheets that are relevant in k-12 Education. It is in its early stages of organizing all of the sites within the database, but it has managed to keep a very clear license agreement making all of the worksheets and resources that are found on the site Free of Charge!!! New ideas, games, worksheets, and quiz material are all easily found with a user friendly navigation of the site, and the material is in PDF format, as well as Doc. format, therefore it is easy to find any material that can be used for lessons year round. (elementary grammar - Advanced level peer reviews) Utilize all of your resources by linking up with our twitter account. This will keep you updated with all of the new material that is coming to englishbanana.com.

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.

This website is full of fun activities for all ages of students to engage in. It can be used for research, or help with a subject that a student is having trouble with. There are tons of different topics to choose from and have fun with and get extra practice in the process. Relating to the standard of 6.1, there are many different handouts teachers can print off for their students to use in the classroom. Also, all of the games go back to the topic of enhancing hands-on experiences and problem-solving.

This is a great site for both teachers and students. This site has links to many interactive resources for anyone interested in art. This website meets the standard 6.2 because it has grade-level and content-specific technology resources, including assistive technology, to increase student participation in the total curriculum. you can become a member of MOMA, but its a little pricey. I think you get what you pay for in the end.