Sometimes very K-12 in focus, the Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE) journal never fails to inspire with well written articles across a variety of topics interesting to educators generally.
These templates are provided as a starting point for developing an electronic portfolio to demonstrate each of these sets of standards. Be creative! Apply your own graphics and backgrounds. National Educational Technology Standards Electronic Portfolio Templates for Teachers, Administrators, Students in Word, html, Excel, and PPT
Are you searching for a way to share documents, presentations, slideshows, or a series of photos or images with your students?
Then Voice Thread is the free Web 2.0 tool for you and your students (teachers can register for a free education account).
The value of Twitter for helping you and your colleagues stay informed of the latest trends, ideas, resources, and Web 2.0 integration tools has increased tremendously in the past year.
A Web 2.0 tool is available for exploiting the every growing information on Twitter to remove barriers and allow you to collaborate with other science and math teachers. This new online tool is paper.li - a source of daily Twitter newsletters in education.
The desktop version of Canvastic is a fantastic student-focused graphics/text publishing tool for K-8. It features easy to understand tools and options with a clear, clean interface. There are no "toy" features that waste the students' time. Canvastic presents the perfect interface for any user by adjusting automatically. No other educational software does that. Packed with dozens of new user-requested features, refinements, and fixes, Canvastic v3.5 is even more flexible, powerful, and easy to use. Teachers have expanded options to customize the application to meet students' needs. It has the best spell checking feature for students ever, transparent color choices and more.
Concerned with what you might find on other media sharing sites?
On SchoolWAX TV you can learn in a safe and comfortable environment. SchoolWAX TV provides students, teachers, and parents with educator approved videos.
Watch, share and upload.
ABCya! is a leader in free & exciting computer activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All educational computer games and activities were created or approved by certified teachers! Activities are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way to learn. The activities incorporate content areas such as math and reading while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade games are equipped with sound to enhance understanding. You can also find great elementary holiday activities here! Holiday activities available in grade level sections!
Books are a great gift and now is the perfect time for parents and teachers to stock up with Internet only special sale pricing discounts for their family or school.
Whether you have pre-readers, beginning readers or advanced readers, you will find a broad selection of age and skill appropriate learning-based books from which to select that children love.
Search for educational books (fiction, classics and non-fiction) by age, topics, Accelerated Reader, popularity and more… Stock up for your students, children, friends, relatives and classroom.
Teenage boys love reading with the new Conspiracy 365 series (12 books in 12 months).