I like this website because it is designed for teachers. It gives general ideas on how to incorporate the internet into the classroom but then goes into detail about how to use the internet properly. It teaches the teacher how to use the internet.
Flipsnack is a free and easy site to make attractive flipbooks by uploading images or video and adding text. It can be personalized and would be great for an online art portfolio for students.
This textbook provides a solid foundation on integrating technology into the classroom. It provides, research-based methods, case studies, and additional resources (websites & tools) to guide educators.
This is the textbook for the course EdTech541. The goal of this textbook is to describe how to integrate technology to it's fullest advantage using learning theory, tested teaching practices, matched learning and teaching needs, old and new strategies, and a combination of technology, pedagogy and content knowledge.
This is an example of a simulation software for math. This website constructs any geometry figure possible. It shows you step by step how to do a geometry construction. The students can control the pace of the simulation, pause it and play it forward.
Voki allows students to type up paragraphs or essays. Then their Voki avatar will read it back to them. Students will be able to detect errors in their writing by hearing it read aloud to them.
Using these step by step instructions you can make an interactive quiz which you can embed into a website. Since the quiz is in Google Forms you can collect the information inputted into the forms in a Google spreadsheet.
This website was a fantastic resource for me this week when learning how to create interactive slides. This is a great element to add to any PowerPoint presentation to get the students involved. Creating links on the slides to travel through the questions in the correct order takes some time to organize in your head but once it is created, it is awesome!
Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.
This website is a fantastic free screen recording site. You can record your screen and audio up to about 15 minutes for free. It allows you to upload your recording to You-Tube or save it as a WMV. I used this when sharing multimedia use in the classroom.
This website is a great resource to be creative with Google Sheets, explains how to create tables, charts, images, etc. This makes a presentation more engaging and visually appealing.
This is a fantastic Geometry tool for high school math students. This is a website where you can manipulate angles, segments, polygons, etc. to understand a theorem, equation or true statement used in math. This is a fantastic visual for geometry students to use when discovering any type of math concept.
A website with educational game resources including links to games, links to TED talks about educational games, links to articles about educational games. Kind of a one-stop-shopping for educational games.
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. Wikipedia
Founded: February 14, 2005, San Mateo, CA
CEO: Susan Wojcicki
Headquarters: San Bruno, CA
Acquisition date: November 13, 2006
Parent organization: Google
Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim
As a math teacher I use numbers a lot! I found the US Census website is a great resource for primary source information that includes numbers...lots of numbers. I used this to create a learning activity that found precent increase and r-squared values. What fun!