Clif's Notes on EdTech

The website's main purpose is to help educators and schools around the world effectively integrate technology, including the wonderful tools on the vast World Wide Web, into the classroom.

Use this web 2.0 tool to create social media policy.

citation site, free for educators and students at this time. Great tool for helping students learn how to cite websites effectively. Not APA style but does allow for capture of text, images and notetaking on websites and PDFs. 

Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K12.

A blog about a teacher's experience with using Diigo and other web tools to facilitate student's research writing.

Resources for understanding and performing qualitative data analysis. Very useful as schools are forced to look more and more at data, and need a way for teachers to effectively use that data to impact instruction.

QDA has become a growing factor in our school system. The data teachers collect and analyze spans from written tests, student response data, individual curricular modules, grade book analytics, state tests, national tests and more. Many teachers are overwhelmed with assessment and data. This site is a wonderful resource to keep in our pockets so that assessment methods and data collected have a quality aspect and can be used as a solid directional arrow for instruction. Much appreciated.

Free children's books you can use with interactive whiteboards, projectors, etc. Permission granted for non-commercial use.

Engineering and technology lessons for children!

Now you can stop spending 30 seconds watching an ad you've seen 10 times before, and start watching your video instead. direct link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/epbmnbdplhcomkedpjfceakddnbgfjmf?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon

Share your screen instantly to any device with a browser.

Nice set of digital storytelling tools.