This comes from the Glencoe Online Learning Center. Each chapter has a link to primary sources.

An interesting web tool that lets you create an audio- narrated digital story

The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networks, Google Docs, eBooks, online maps, virtual field trips, screencasts, online posters, and more. Explore innovative ways of integrating these tools into the curriculum, watch instructional video tutorials, and learn how others are using technology in the classroom!

Contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Written by dkapuler on Oct 31, 2012 01:27 pm theLearnia is a new (beta) site for educational videos. This is done through a social network aspect that allows teachers to upload videos into "lessons" and then share w/ students. Users can then discuss via public/private messaging about the video. This is an ideal site for online learning.

I found this on EdSurge. "Here's a informative look at how one rural Iowa district is dealing with cyber-bullying in the wake of a 1:1 computing implementation for its fifth to seventh graders"

I was working with the Songify app and Voki. Songify produces an audio file that Voki doesn't recognize. This site was able to convert it for me: http://www.convertfiles.com/convert/audio/M4A-to-WAV.html

Contains a lot of data regarding the attitudes, perceptions, and use of social networking websites by teachers, administrators, and school librarians.

I wanted to embed a working spreadsheet into my project this week. I spent several hours looking and testing something that would work. I don't know if it's but only one, but Microsoft Office web apps (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/) allowed me to do this. I had to create a Microsoft account (Hotmail, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, or Windows Phone) account in order to get into Skydrive (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/skydrive/home). I was able to publish and embed a working spreadsheet into my web page. On the cautionary side, I ended up with a bunch of validation errors from W3C.

Had I known how easy it was I would have done this several years ago. The step-by-step directions made this a cinch to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UssuI0mY6RI

I found both these links very interesting and informative this week as I was working to make a presentation more interactive.

Drag and Drop PowerPoint Macro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQHhh0dXcw0&sns=em

How to Package PowerPoint Macros for Sharing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di-EFzJpnn8&sns=em

Although it's slightly dated, Marc Prensky has a great discussion about the purpose games have in our lives and in the digital world.

This wiki has a lot of objective discussion about the pros and cons of Educational Games

Here's a little additional information I found on Simulations. http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/simul/index.html

NPR aired an interesting piece this morning about how teacher expectations impact student performance.

Wisconsin Public Service has a collection of S.T.E.M websites that have potential for classroom use.

It's a very interesting read if you are searching for ways to use technology to increase students' reading comprehension levels.

I ran across this page when I was doing some research on line. It provides a great visual perspective of the interconnectedness of our technological future.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680348/mapping-the-future-of-education-technology