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Welcome to Historical Thinking Matters, a website focused on key topics in U.S. history, that is designed to teach students how to critically read primary sources and how to critique and construct historical narratives.

Looks like an interesting site. There are student investigations as well as teacher materials and strategies.

Schoo Tube is a great way for teachers and studetns to watch videos, upload videos, create a Free channel, enter contests, and receive the video of the day.

I have used this site to upload videos created by teachers and students. I haven't seen anything inappropriate on it. I know it is monitored because I believe the video had to be previewed before it was released onto the site.

Class parrot is in beta version but it is a free way for teachers to text students and parents quick reminders about school related issues.

Easy Bib mobile app that allows students to scan the barcode of a book, magazine, etc. to create a citation.

How to link youtube videos is a really good step by step to help teachers who create videos and then want to link them together to allow students to click on designated annotations that allow the viewer to move between different videos and topics.

Curiosity in the Classroom Discovery Education and Intel have teamed up to create this site. This is a program designed to guide teachers and students on a journey through life's biggest questions.

This site introduces civil engineering to students. If a teacher or parent clicks on the little green truck to the right of the screen it will take you to a page with information and resources on the site.

CK12 standards aligned and customizable materials teachers and students can create accounts.

"De Mobo Slides is a great application to remotely control the presentations you create through Google Slides, Prezi, and Slideshare right from your iPhone or Android-operated device. The process is ver simple: you install De Mobo app on your mobile device and pair it with your computer using a generated code as shown in the video below. Once the two devices are connected you can then start streamlining presentations from your mobile device. However for this to work, you need to make sure both of the devices are connected on the same network. Some of the features provided by De Mobo include: 'integrating your webcam into your presentation as a Smart Overhead Projector, access to your speaker notes on your phoneA, embedded timer, playable embedded Youtube videos, ptions to change presentation animations on the fly, and access to PDF on your local storage, Dropbox or Box.net. Watch the video below to learn more about how to use De Mobo.'  Follow us on : Twitter, Facebook , Google plus, Pinterest . You might also like: All The Resources and Tips You Need to Effectively ... 7 Ways Teachers Can Create Videos without Installing ... Two Excellent Web Tools to Easily Record and Share Audio ... 4 Awesome Google Drive Templates to Help Students Create ... Linkwithin Newer Post Older Post Home Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest RSS Email Visit Med's profile on Pinterest.   GOOGLE+ BADGE SEARCH THIS BLOG ABOUT US Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is operated by a team of dedicated teachers located in Canada. For any questions regarding our website or the content we publish, please contact EdTech admin, Med Kharbach, at: info@educatorstechnology.com. Copyright © 2010-2016 Educational Technology and Mobile Learning . By : EdTech Team. "

"With the advance of mobile technologies, QR Code technologies open up a vast terrain for educational uses. There are several ways teachers can leverage the educational potential of QR Codes in their instruction. The visual below sums up 10 interesting examples of how you can use QR Codes with your students. We have also included some interesting resources and video tutorials to help better understand the whole concept of QR Codes in education. Check them out and share with your colleagues. Enjoy"

Daily Grammar provides simple and clear lessons on the basics of English grammar for grades 5-12. Set up in modules of five examples and a follow-up quiz, the simiplicity of the approach and the explanations make this a great site for students to use on their own when they feel they need self-paced remediation or enrichment. Mr. Bill Johanson, the author of the material, is a former junior and high school English teacher, with 30 years experience in the classroom.

this site, maintained by RobinL. Simmons, provides grammar explanations and numerous interactive exercises handouts for teachers and students in grades 6-12.

This suitable for middle and high school students, provides a comoprehensive guide to free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides (like Cliffs Notes) for more than 1,600 books, plays, and poems.

The Virtual History Museum is a history-learning environment designed to promote the historical understanding. The Virtual History Museum (VHM) enables a teacher or student, who serves as a curator, to develop an exhibit about a historical topic. Exhibits include activities that help viewers investigate the exhibit and then communicate to others the results.

This site is terrific for students and teachers for all grade levels. Click Online Tours and you can explore an artist, theme, or artwork. Click NGA Kids and you will find interactive games and activities for elementary school children.

This PBS site has a Galileo biography, an exploration of Galileo's telescope, and other interesting articles as well as fun interactive activities for grades 6-12. These games feature animated experiments including Galileo's ingenious experiment on gravity demonstrating that all objects fall at the same rate. Teacher's can find an archive of over 120 companion Web sites to past Nova TV programs by interest, program title, or year of broadcast. There is a searchable teacher's section with classroom activities, TV program descriptions, related NOVA resources, and explorations for students. The video is not free but the interactive experiments on this site are very nice. They are animated and the kids predict what will happen before you activate the animations.

This is a wikispace link to the American Treasures Box. The students. The LIU 12 in collaboration with Waynesburg University's Teaching with Primary Sources program is now offering American Treasures Boxes and digital resources, each based on a specific topic from American history. The American treasures boxes consist of a resource CD/flash drive, printed documents and images from the Library of Congress and ideas about how you might incorporate the materials into your classroom. Collection currently available are listed on this link.

Article has a variety of apps for K-12 students. Some are for secondary and others are for elementary.

Genetic Science Learning Center. This is a really nice site to help students understand Mitosis/Meiosis. There are also tabs for DNA, Gene, Chromosome, Inheritance, Protein.

Message your class. A safe wayfor teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents.