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Research any topic with an interactive concept map, that you can customize and share

This is a great resource for videos about different math topics. It's well organized and easy to find what you are looking for. It also has videos in Spanish for English language learners who need some extra help. It also has multiple people explaining each idea so if you don't understand it with one explanation you can look at another one.

This site is an online discussion board. A teacher can use this resource to encourage class wide discussion on a particular topic. A teacher can even use this to encourage the "back discussion" during a class. The students can make comments and ask questions via TodaysMeet while the class is going on and then the teacher can access the site and answer questions after the class is over.

Great article about assistive technologies that can be implemented in a science class.

This collection includes articles, interviews, papers, and presentations about issues involving disability, libraries, and higher education.

This project involves students using Twitter to address a calculus level problem. In this project, students are asked to define what a limit is in calculus. These are very complex ideas that can be explained in many different ways. Students need to have a solid foundation with these concepts because the rest of the course builds on them. As students were researching their definitions, they tweeted questions live using the class hashtag. This allowed the teacher and other students to answer questions that were raised. Once students had their explanation they had to tweet it out to the whole class. Doing this in 140 characters or less can be very difficult. Once students all had a definition posted, they were able to go in and comment and retweet definition posed by their peers. I like this because it can be applied to many different situations. Students can be asked to define a topic or articulate their understanding of a concept in a clear and concise way. It also allows students to see their peers thinking and expand their own. This has numerous applications for students at numerous levels. I could see myself doing something like this when wrapping up a unit to check for understanding.

This page on the Educause website offers a collection of Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) from a variety of educational organizations, as well as articles and papers about best practices in creating AUPs.

This resource is contains a library of different math and science simulations. There are dozens of different activities students can use that cover a wide variety of topics. These simulations can be used to teach different ideas and support cross curricular learning.

Videos and videos of songs on many different topics across subjects and grades. Some are free, there is also a free trial.

Flocabulary is a library of songs, videos and activities for K-12 online learning. Hundreds of thousands of teachers use Flocabulary's educational raps and teaching lesson plans to supplement their instruction and engage students. Our team of artists and educators is not only committed to raising test scores, but also to fostering a love of learning in every child.

Flocabulary is a library of songs, videos, and activities for K-12 online learning.

This website has a collection of 100 different video resources specifically designed for teachers to use. It is organized by topic and audience to help teachers find exactly what they are looking for. This should be the first jumping off point for anyone trying to incorporate videos into their classroom.

Offers the latest news, updates, commentaries from teachers, IT, and adiministrators regarding multimedia in the classroom. This site offers a snapshot of different articles with links to each article and comments.

Quizlet is a web-based and mobile service that lets its users study various topics with instructions tools and games. Teachers can create different quizzes and games that students can use to study. Students can create their own accounts and make their own personal study tools as well.

This website contains a vast library of educational videos that are designed to teach students about various topics in the world of math, science and computers. The videos are accompanied with practice problems for learners to go through after each video to assess their learning.

This is a website that specifically helps educators use YouTube in the classroom. With some many videos already out there, YouTube is a powerful tool. This site helps pair specific videos to specific topics.

This is a simulation software that I use mostly with my physics students. We don't utilize all of these, but when the topic perfectly aligns with one I create a simulation lab in order for them to utilize the technology and not be bored in a typical lab setting.

Great science, math, STEM resource. Interactive simulations along with other helpful teacher resources for engaging lessons.

This website is a resource that I like to use for my 7th grade Physical Science class. The students enjoy the simulations and I can use it for things that I either don't have the resources for or that they can't be trusted to use. #EdTechSN

Communities of Practice are becoming an important focus in organiation development because of the learning and collaboratiave aspects of CoP. Theory and practice of CoP's are reviewed. The model of situated learning is reflected upon as CoP's are viewed as a process of engagement.

This is an article that dives deeper into the theory and practice of communities of practice. The article hits the main components of domain, community, and practice but dives deeper into the thinking of the researchers Lave and Wenger. I appreciated how the article dives deeper into the process of these communities and how many of us join COPs as periphery learners and then as we gain competence through out interactions with the COP we move to full participation. The cornerstone of the theory being that learning not is solely acquisitional but rather a process of social participation. There are extended quotes from the researchers that provide a deeper context to their theory and more is discussed about the processes of their research.

This article provides a great overview of the writings of Wenger and Lave on communities of practice. Their basic points are that we are all involved in communities of practice and they are valuable tools to become better educators. They also explain how our learning never ends as education continues to change. We constantly need to adapt and change our methods to fit our learners.