Technology Enabled Classroom Resources

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A great way for students to "jazz" up a other wise boring power point

I use this site to create interactive power points during exam reviews.

A great way to give quick quizzes while watching live feed back. Great for exit tickets as well.

Storybird is a Web 2.0 tool used for creating attractive online storybooks. The site offers a lot of artwork by professional illustrators to serve as clip art for story creation. Storybird stands out to me among many other Web 2.0 storytelling tools simply because of the beautiful artwork users can choose from. I do a lot of lessons across K-6 classes on the elements that make up fiction. I think Storybird would be a great way for students to think about storytelling elements by making their own stories. Storybird offers student accounts, and teachers can create assignments, set due dates, and designate students to work collaboratively on assignments. I don't feel that teaching students to use Storybird would prove very difficult. Any students familiar with Powerpoint creation would probably be able to get started with minimal instruction.

I have never heard of this website before - this is fantastic! There are endless applications for this type of website, and the artwork is indeed beautiful.

This is a great resource for educators as well; you can create a "pin board" of images, videos, websites that are of interest to you. There are certain categories of public "pin boards" - the educators category is GREAT! Although a lot of them are geared towards elementary schools, there are some great ideas for educators at any level.

I am such a fan of Pinterest. I have a board for everything! It is funny how you will start out just exploring the Pinterest site, and before you know it, you find yourself "Pinning" everything you come across on the web! Engaging students in a research project where they can utilize the different Pins provided, or having them post representative images for a visual literacy activity are just two of the many ways to use Pinterest with students.

This is a search engine, mainly used in math and science to find the results of any type of mathematical problem.

This search engine is very interesting! When it was first introduced to me by a co-worker, I spent a while just exploring. It can connect information tied to a single topic or concept for you; it can be a puzzle to see what the engine collects and try to figure out why it picked that information! For lesson plan ideas for different Math levels, Check out this link: http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/lessonplans.html

Basically a site where you make a virtual poster/collage of a lesson. It is great for compiling unit materials, making it a review tool before a unit/chapter test, and students can use it to narrow down resources for a project. It's nice because you can add text, links, videos, and pictures.

I love Glogster! There are so many uses for this website. I've had students make multiple Glogsters that interlink with a Glogster "homepage" for their projects. Space can be a limitation for a single Glogster, but encouraging students to separate and categorize their work into separate digital posters can get them the space they need!

This website has some great timed practices for conjugations. The great thing is that it is not only for Spanish, but also several other languages. With the option of printable worksheets as extra practice, it is great for students and teachers.

This website is fantastic for any and every spanish grammar lesson. They have printable lessons and worksheets that go along with the lesson. Great for students and teachers.

Free digital slideshow tool where students can present multimedia presentations with video, images, and audio. Peers and teachers can comment on slides through voice, video, or text comments! Final products can be downloaded as a video file, embedded or saved within the VoiceThread cloud

Brainstorming Web 2.0 Tools that do no even require a log-in! Nearly endless expansions of thought maps!

This is a great site to solve basic mathematics, algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus, calculus problems.

This site has several lesson plans and videos that I have found particularly useful.

This source has some really useful interactive labs that teachers can present to students.

great source of power points and guided notes

This is a fantastic tool created for students and teachers which helps to follow students' improvements and reviews different subjects and topics through flashcards, tests, group and individual work. I have used it with my ESL students when targeting vocabulary.

This site has free online books for different age levels. It also has a lot of good non-fiction books as well. The cool thing is you can let your kids read these for free and the organization donates books to children that do not have any. All you have to do is set up an account and let your children read! It is completely FREE!! The more books people read online, the more they donate to other children. Spread the joy of reading!!

Evolutionary Biology Resource

This is a great blog for teachers and students; it utilizes current events and articles from The New York Times, and even provides lesson plans as well.