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Effective teaching with technology matches the teacher's goals and the learner's characteristics and needs, with tools that enhance understanding.

This is a superb classroom management tool where you can track the behaviour of your class and keep them motivated. Simply click on the child and assign them a positive or negative behaviour point. You can also track their reading and spelling ages and make your own customised data set. Use this information to help you arrange the children within your class. You can have multiple classes on your teacher's account and you can share data with colleagues using different accounts. The data is encrypted to ensure data security. The system works on the majority of web enabled devices. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards

"I recommend 19 Pencils to teachers that are looking to easily and effectively:- integrate a website into their classroom - save websites and videos with visual representations- monitor their students online activity- create assignments with references to relevant web resources- add a teacher's note so that students have a clear understanding of what's expected of them- create quizzes from scratch or use pre-made flashcard quizzes- get instant feedback from your students with the social media Playground feature"

Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies. This MIT initiative features a courseware library with about 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers in multiple formats: as streaming video, Internet downloads, DVDs, and videotapes. Each 50-minute lesson is a complete resource with video segments, a teacher's guide, downloadable hand-outs, and a list of online resources about the topic. The lessons mix short videos--all less than five minutes--with in-classroom exercises designed to engage students in problem solving and critical thinking.

One teacher's creative use of Web 2.0 tools to enhance classroom instruction.

We also need to recognise that, largely, those teachers who use technology the most effectively and lead the way with its use are also, by and large, excellent teachers with or without the technology. This helps us see what many of us appreciate already: the one biggest element of improving education, making learning more creatively inclined and entrepreneurial, is the teacher. It's not curriculum, class sizes (though smaller class sizes make the teacher's life easier) or even assessment. This is something I've been reporting back from research for two years (and which I've been blown out on more times than I can count). It's not about letting students lead the way with technology and "show us teachers" how it's done. Students are generally quite narrow in their knowledge of how to harness technology or creative venture. No, it's how teachers and parents teach that is important. It is, to use a piece of edu-jargon, pedagogy, both at school and at home.

This is an example of how social media can change children's participation in class. A very well written teacher's reflection of a difficult student's engagement in her class as a result of using social media

The teacher's area of YouTube is a great place to find educational resource videos and ideas about how to use videos in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams

Like a Google Sketchup for drama staging. An excellent resource that should be in any drama teacher's tool kit. Set your staging virtually without lifting any scenery or changing any light gels. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Download this 'must try' game creating and editing suite from Microsoft. Build characters, objects, scenery and design the structure of the games. Build and play entire worlds. It's an ICT teacher's dream. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

www.edmodo.com is like facebook but for the classroom

If I could only pack three tools in my eToolbox… [this is like the game "If you were stranded on a deserted island and could only bring three things," except there is no island. Bear with me.]… I would choose Twitter, Evernote and Dropbox.