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Practical ideas for integrating Instagram into any classroom.

The textbook company, Glencoe, did a great resource page that has several academic sites on using the internet into your classroom. They give examples and instructions for educators.

Some of this article seemed a bit outdated for me. I realize that it was written in 2002 but it dated itself in the writing. What I did like was how they acknowledge that Instructional and Educational technology are slightly different. I did not know the difference until 541.

A website that provides information, simulators, and other resources on how to create effective, technology-integrated learning spaces for a variety of needs. © 2015 Learning Space Toolkit. All Rights Reserved. Created using PressWork.

This site provides a list of activities for using technology in the classroom.

A collection of web based resources and an example of a LiveBinder in use.

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Teachers who use instructional video report that their students retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusiastic about what they are learning. With video as one component in a thoughtful lesson plan, students often make new connections between curriculum topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside the classroom.

Are you using these tools? If not, here are some ways that one school cleverly integrated them into the classroom.

A survey of 2,462 Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers finds that digital technologies are shaping student writing in myriad ways and have also become helpful tools for teaching writing to middle and high school students.

A toolkit that provides multiple guides and resources to teachers looking to integrate digital tools into the classroom. The "Instructional Delivery" guide provides a pre-screened list of software that can be used as solutions to classroom instructional issues and needs.

Website for teachers looking to integrate more technology into their classroom.

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This chart represents student skills which every Caesar Rodney educator should make an integral part of their classroom to improve student learning. Skills are shown at the grade level in which students should demonstrate independent proficiency. Students may need instruction and support to use the skills in projects or assignments in the years preceding the target.

Some great descriptions of how spreadsheets, etc. are useful in educational settings.

obstacles and solutions to integrating technology in ELA

This site is from Education World and is speaking about using technology in high school classrooms. This post notes that students in this generation almost demand that technology is to be used in the classroom because that is what they are used to and have grown up with. Cell phones, music devices and tablets have become more prevalent each year with more and more students bring them to school. They cannot seem to separate themselves from social media, music, games, etc. This site has listed some great ideas of how teachers can incorporate technology into their classroom, some of them are: online quizzes, online databases, Microsoft OneNote, online classes, student online portfolios and blogging.

This website is an excellent resource for teachers who have a classroom set of iPad's or tablets. Many teachers have classroom tablets but do not know how to integrate them into the classroom. This website has a list of great apps to download for tablet use in classrooms. Students need to be engaged, challenged and be able to practice the skills learned. Using classroom tablets as a group/partner activity or individual use is a great way to incorporate technology into a lesson plan. High school students are a great age to use tablets with because they are more mature than elementary/middle school and (hopefully) will respect the technology devices.