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Teachers have so many options these days when it comes to helping students with special needs successfully integrate into their classroom. This article explains ways to integrate assistive technology into your classroom.

Assistive devices, commonly used school technologies, links to online resources

The Google Docs platform not only embraces portability by enabling you to create, update and store documents online, it also provides a way for you to publish documents to your website or blog. ...

This website gives a step by step explanation of how to embed a Google Document and how to resize the embedded image. There is a default size when embedding an image and most of the time users want to enlarge that image.

Create custom maps to share and publish online with Google My Maps. You can make maps that show different kinds of information.

Share your infographic with the world. Make high resolution prints or share it online. Link, embed, email or share it on social media. The possibilities are endless with this awesome Infographic creator.

Our designers work hard so you don't have to. In fact, you'll have access to a weekly updated library of over 500 professionally-designed templates. Finding a style that fits your message is easy. Edit text, fonts, and colors. Change as much or as little as you want to.

FunBrain is the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages. (math, grammar, science, spelling, history)

Adobe Voice is a free iOS app that lets you make an impact with an amazing animated video. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online.

On this website you can create and publish an e-book. The books are small picture book style books. The graphics included are fun whimsical style graphics, but you can also add your own pictures or graphics. I saw one book created by a teacher called The Rubric Teacher. The teacher created the book as a cute reminder that the students needed to follow the rubric when working on a project. This is a great way of emphasizing something that often gets ignored in a fun way the students will remember.

This is an online eBook creator. It is free if you want to share or embed the book on a website. You can also pay if you want the book to be printed for a hard copy.

Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 30 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life. This can be used with classes to post their work and upload their vlogs or published pieces.

Part of a LibGuide from the University of Pittsburgh, this page discusses online tools and technology ideas that can be used to teach information literacy to college students.

This was a very interesting read, which highlights several issues related to copyright...some things I had not even considered with consideration to online digital tools.

This paid website has an online library of simulations to be used in math and science. For each simulations there are lesson plans, students exploration worksheets, and other material.

This resource contains several math a science simulations that students can use. This resource is free to teachers and can be used to promote cross curricular learning for math and science. There are simulations as well as research for teachers to read through.

Glogster is a cloud-based service for creating presentations and other visual projects. It allows the user to make digital poster boards with different images and videos that can be embedded into the canvas. This allows students and teachers to create an interactive learning experience.

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 article explains how Online Multiplayer Games are the new model for communities of practice and how we as teachers should incorporate technology into our classrooms to utilize this networking capability.

MMOGs are a very interesting phenomenon to me. I took Dr. Haskell's GameBased learning course last semester. What a great way to engage students within COP and PLN.

School culture is an important ingredient in successful tech integration.

Great resource for online learning and blended options!

A wide variety of science topics covered with short games for students.

Upon doing my research for CoP I stumbled across this site that stresses the right way to effectively use technology for online communities of practice. It emphasizes that many CoP's can lose their purpose by metamorphosing into something entirely different than what was originally intended.

This article summarizes a study aimed at explaining collective behavior on social networking platforms through intentional social action, which is known as the We-Intention theory. The study focused on Facebook in particular, because it is widely popular among university students and could, thus, illustrate social media's impact on students' motivation to learn via virtual communities. In the article, the We-Intention theory is driven by social influence factors, social presence, and elements of the uses and gratifications (U&G) model. U&G, as defined in the article, explains why individuals gravitate toward certain digital media over others. U&G assumes individuals are both goal-directed and aware of their needs, listed as purposive value, self-discovery, entertainment, social enhancement, and maintenance of interpersonal connectivity. The study identified two U&G needs, entertainment and interpersonal connectivity, as significantly determining intentional social action under the We-Intention theory.

That article is very interesting stating that most use Facebook for instant communication and connection. The need for instant gratification. Joining too many groups or trying to connect to too many people does make it hard to have a specific connection to one group. May be the reason that people post so many random topics and photos.

Interesting perspective on Facebook from the point of view of students using the platform.Since most of my background is from K-12 education, I have not witnessed teachers using the platform with their students. I have found that most K-12 teachers use Facebook to communicate with parents. It does seem to have a similar impact on getting parents motivated and active in class activities. Most parents use Facebook and once they know they can follow their child's teacher and get updates via the social media app, parents tend to do so