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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.

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.

This website is full of information regarding the proper usage of technology for children. Children use social technology on a daily basis for communication, homework projects, surfing the web, and etc. I chose this website because it displays the rights and the responsibilities of minors and the importance of protecting them while they are surfing the web. As teachers we want our students to make good choices when it comes to the use of technology. This website include other links such as "Stop Cyberbullying" that can be used to teach young people about internet safety.

This website describes cyber ethics and some of the legal/ethical issues revolving around the use of technology , at the same time, advocating proper use of the legal policies. It has a lot of helpful links for parents, educators, communities, the youth, and more!

St. 6.9-This is a great website with images that have copyrighted material you can use. Each picture gives the user the regulations to use the picture. Some pictures have no restrictions and others have minimal restrictions.

This website, Freerice.com, is a useful tool for teachers to use to reinforce some knowledge that may be learned in class, to provide a source of edutainment, and to provide students with the recognition that they live in a global community with people less fortunate. The site allows for you to copy and paste free banners to your own personal website or blog. A link could also be saved to the site on a classroom computer, allowing students to use the site as a means to reinforce a skill or to reward a student for good behavior. The site does adhere to the standard 6.9 by the permission allowed to educators by the "Fair Use" doctrine.

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.

Lessoncast is something I have never heard of before, but seems very useful to teachers. It is an interactive site that teachers use to get and share ideas. It has a blog, and all kinds of lessoncasts that teachers can use. A lessoncast is a short video elaborating on new ideas for different lessons.

INSTRUCTIONS: Before you begin, print out the Review Sheet to use while playing the game. 1. Drag and drop the citation elements in the correct order for an APA or MLA style source on the lines provided. 2. When you think your answer is correct, click on the Check button to check your answer.This site is useful for students because it can help you properly cite resources for multiple assignments. Citing papers can be difficult for students and this game can help them accurratly learn the proper ways to use citations.

Educational Resources at the National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of art website is a great technological resource for both teachers and students. There is a link to the exhibit of the week which focuses on a new artist or series of artists. Another useful tool is the artist database which makes it easier to look up any artist quickly and also have an accurate biography and list of works. There is also a fun section for kids to use where they can get ideas for art projects, read the online children's magazine for artists, and use a number of free software to create their own original art work.

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 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.

I find the history channel website to be very useful for history teachers. It has videos on most historical events, games for students to play that are relevant to subjects in history and social studies. It could also be used as good source for students when doing research projects and paper. A great icebreaker for teachers to use is "This Day in History."

The website I found relating to Standard 6.7 covers a wide variety of topics and tools that educators can use. As stated in 6.7, this website gives instruction and examples for databases and spreadsheets. It has several links relating to these two topics. I see myself using this website in the future and hope everyone else is able to get some use out of it as well.

This a great site for teachers to share information. The uses of new technology in the classroom is very useful on this site. Teachers discuss the types of technology they use, and they offer guidance to those that haven't tried it. I found a section that offered the top 20 apps for the iPad that benefit teachers. The url for that is : http://www.teachhub.com/20-amazing-ipad-apps-educators