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This blog offers information on copyright, creative commons, fair use, among other things.

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!

This is a great website for teachers to manage their classroom and to find things to use during their instructional time

This website has important information and tips for teachers and parents to keep kids protected while they are surfing the web. I chose this site because of its awareness on how to properly teach kids how to surf the web. This website discusses the importance of parents/teachers communicating with children to make sure that they understand the rules and laws of surfing the web.The site also discusses cyberbulling and the signs to recognize if children are being abused online. The site has other important links and websites that can be utilized.

This site gives examples of different communication tools for teachers to use for communicating between parents and students. Under each example, it discusses a little about each and how it is helpful. The site also provides other web links to help students and parents.

This site wans students to be able to go on the internet freely without worrying about all of the risks involved. The ethics of preventing cyberbullying by the teachers is also linked as well.

A good example of a primary sources site for American History classes

GradeBookWizard.com is a web-based gradebook for K-12 teachers that includes a class website where you can publish assignments and student grades, as well as communicate with students and their parents. You can share information such as student records, grade scales, and rubrics with other teachers at your school.

Famundo.com is a free website where a teacher can go in and make a class calender. The teacher can then invite the students and teachers to join so that they will be able to view the calender. This is a very good website for a teacher to use to communicate with the students and their parents. The parents and students can log in anytime they want to check the upcoming assignments or activities that the teacher has placed on the calender.

With the popularity of Facebook and the ability to connect to it from iPads to desktops, it only makes sense to use it for a classroom communication tool. I did a quick search for classrooms, and specifically special education classrooms on Facebook and found numerous pages from all over the world. By using a Facebook page for the class, parents can see what the days lessons were as well as homework and pictures of the day or week. Messages can also be sent to the entire group or individuals as well as other teachers in the department.

My homework now is a website where teahcers can communicate with students and parents through facebook, twitter, apple and android, and other different social sites about homework and what is happening in the classroom through this all in one website.

This website was recommended to me by a friend who recently received her masters in education. She uses this website a lot because it has plenty of options to choose from. Activities, Coloring Pages, Flash Cards, and more.

This is great website to browse in your spare time, maybe during summer break, to expand your thinking. TED.com's slogan is "ideas worth sharing" There's lots of different topics to choose from, and the people at these TED conferences are from all over the world so you really get a good perspective of global thinking.

This website provides the basics for those your are not familiar with excel and not sure how to compile data.

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.

You can use this site to analyze the data that you may collect for a project that you do with the many different graphs that it offers from kindergarten to twelfth grade. there are other things on this site that could help with math skills of all kinds.

This websites has several different guided math practices using manipulatives. It could be beneficial to all students, but especially those with special needs.

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 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.