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A teacher describes some ways he uses Diigo with his classes

Great cache for cool tools. I really like wordia: a visual dictionary

Thanks for sharing this. Now, I have a few more new tips and tricks to share, as well.

great interactive site for children's stories

Nice site. The narration is a bit slow for my taste, but that makes it all the better for some of our students. There is lots of control, like turning highlighting and animation on and off. You can have the book advance automatically. You can go forward and backwards in the book.

Article supports content from session 3: much of what we will need to know will not be what we learned in school decades earlier

Another resource for Clicker is the Clicker ebooks that you can download from the Accessible Book Collection. This is a great website that has digital text in different formats available for download...there is a $50 subscription fee for the year but it is well worth it if you are trying to integrate digital text with instruction. You can see that Linda has played a large part in adding these Clicker 5 books to the collection! Posted by Kathryn Lee on Blackboard

Top 25 Education Technology Trends for 2010-2011

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.

This is the link that Jo shared in the discussion thread about funding technology for your classroom.

Examples of how 21st century learning will better prepare students for the future they'll encounter when they leave school.

Supports Session 3

This video speaks to the idea from our face to face meeting in session 3 that the world of tomorrow will demand different job skills than what we are teaching students in school today.

This site provides an array of virtual manipulative that you can use on your promethean and your students can use on their own as well. It provides resources for multiple grade levels.

Discusses a strategy for getting started with web 2.0 tools and gives a list of the major categories to consider.

another great set of time savers to boost opportunities for learning!

make your own materails and get a bank of ideas for lessons, as well!

Allows you to enter a web address (URL) and make all of the words on that page clickable for definitions and translation. It allows the user to click on any word on the page for a definition.

consider checking when making multi-media filp-charts

A look at the assumptions stopping schools from using technology.

Very powerful video. I have been making arguments against many of those assumptions for years:)

I have also been fighting such assumptions since I started teaching in order to get the technology into my classroom to benefit my students.