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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.

Lexile leveled current events, lesson plans, quizzes, assessments

This blog highlights 7 ways social media has a role in education. The author states the 7 ways and includes links to piktocharts, articles, and websites to further explain her claims.

A thorough article about various aspects of games and information literacy in the digital age. Includes a list of references and an embedded TEDx talk from noted teacher-librarian and researcher Joyce Valenza.

This article is not based on educational games in particular, but is based on video games. There are benefits of playing video games and the author does a nice job summarizing these benefits.

This blog states the importance of social media in higher education. The author, Gupta, backs his opinion up with several linked articles and studies.

This article offers 10 ideas to integrate social studies with ELA and reading. Small, simple ideas from lesson plan tweaks to adding books to libraries to integrate social studies into ELA.

Great article about how this teacher incorporates ELA into PE. He has four great ideas on incorporating ELA! Very engaging.

An article by Education Weekly that explores the integration of math and ELA concreting both subjects.

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

This article provides the differences between adaptive and assistive technology.

Includes lots of practical ways to use Twitter in education.

Summary from the article: Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry . They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter 's format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies.

This resource offers many ways to incorporate social media into everyday curriculum and activities.

Great current event news for science. Stories include pictures, videos, and vocabulary words. Students love to hear about what is up and coming.

article from Education World about adapting technology for use in the classroom

Learn about Immersive Reader - a great assistive technology tool available in Microsoft Office 365 products.

This is an article written by a novelist and game writer. She argues that games, or digital literature, are effective storytelling devices and gives a lot of good example of games that are bridging the gap between narrative and game mediums.

This resource offers excellent ideas and additional links from EdTech to integrate the use of videos into instruction.

This article has excellent suggestions on how to integrate social media with young students and how to dispel some of the road blocks you may encounter.

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.