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Just a couple of ways to use Social Media to connect your classroom to the world!

Provides ideas on how to inspire students in classrooms to become engaged in their learning. Lots of ideas on how to implement social media in the classroom.

How and why use social media in the classroom. I'm looking at this especially for Language Arts.

I use this site for ideas on how to intergrate technology into my curriculum. I do not use this site only, however, it is a great place to start.

This is a great article with a bunch of ideas for how to integrate technology into our daily lessons with our students. This made me realize just recently in my own browsing that I came across a great resource I should share back with you. It's http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/index.html and it can help students read the news of the day, has video clips to watch as well as questions and topics for discussion. Another useful "daily" that can be done in the class. Thank you for sharing these great ways to integrate more tech into what we do!

Great ideas (and websites) to integrate technology in the classroom.

I linked the k-2 reading section, but eSparkLearning has excellent learning videos for grades k-8.

A great list of safety tips for kids when using the Internet. Also has some fun games about the content available for kids to play.

Edutopia kills it one more time with this guide for student-centered learning. As most of these guides do, it points out that there has to be infrastructure development for a program like this to work. Administrators should support teachers interested in doing this.

This site has information, trivia questions, games, and activities about our planet, air, weather, water, energy, plants, and animals.

Web 2.0 technology - the free digital tools that empower all users to create and share - has changed the way the world operates. In the hands of educators, it can become a powerful catalyst for changing the way students learn.

Great article! These three things every teacher should be doing with Web 2.0 are what make Web 2.0 tools so powerful for learning. Great find!

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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.

Excellent videos on common math topics - Jennifer Frisk

Thanks for sharing this!! I work in Higher Ed. So I always thought the Khan Academy was for very young kids. It does appear that is still who it is geared towards, but looking around I can see some beneficial information for all ages. Great resource!!

Khan Academy is one of the most popular tutorial websites on the internet. This website covers every subject you can think of with step by step tutorial videos along with the option to practice the concepts as well. The students receive feedback from the practice and the tutorials provide detailed instructions for each lesson.

Slack is a group site that bypasses email and allows all group messages to be in one place. I am using now for marketing classes because it has been replacing email in many advertising firms.

This video was really helpful. The only thing that has changed is Desmos is not available as an add-on to Google Drive. I had to go to the Desmos webpage but everything else worked well. This will come in handy as I create more project-based lessons.

This year, Microsoft has made Office available for the iPad, iPhone, a preview available for Android, and even dropped the price to free. Meanwhile, the incumbent, Google Drive and its associated apps, have been building out features. Today, we compare the two on mobile.

Author's Note: This article has been edited to correct inaccuracies in Google Docs functionality in Firefox, and Google Apps support.] Game on. Microsoft holds a virtual monopoly on office productivity software, but Google is virtually synonymous with the Web.

If you have a teenager in high school most likely you have shelled out $100 for a TI calculator. These calculators have changed very little in the last 30 years. Dspite the explosion in technology TI has managed to maintain its monopoly like hold on the public schools with out improving it's technology, except to occasionally to change the color of the cover. It's time to revolt! Demos is a free online graphing calculator which frankly, leaves TI calculators in the dust. It can do everything a TI calculator can do and more...and it's free.

Project Based Learning's time has come. The experience of thousands of teachers across all grade levels and subject areas, backed by research, confirms that PBL is an effective and enjoyable way to learn - and develop deeper learning competencies required for success in college, career, and civic life.

A spreadsheet containing links to all the three-act math tasks that Dan Meyer has created and shared.

The rise of smartphones has brought real-time location data into many aspects of Americans' lives. Some mobile services use the smartphone's location to offer directions, targeted recommendations, or other location-specific information to the user. Other services incorporate a location "layer" into other types of functions, while still others exist specifically to share the user's location with friends or the general public.

NBC Learn is the educational arm of NBC News dedicated to providing resources for students, teachers and lifelong learners. The online resources NBC Learn has created for the education community leverages nearly 80 years of historic news coverage, documentary materials and current news broadcasts. Includes videos and lesson plans.