EDU614 Integrating Technology

A sophisticated picture dictionary for visual learners, combining "wiktionary content with Flickr images."

A free, downloadable website that provides students options for accessing web content minus the clutter. It is a great tool for students that need to change the visuals on a page, bringing the text forward. You can customize the font size and type to suit a student's style. Let's you save articles in that format to your iPad too.

This is a really cool website that is about an iPad trial in schools in Australia. The website provides case studies, information on the benefits of using iPads, classroom ideas, videos and pictures, and more. My favorite part of the website is that it also provides a list of great educational apps broken into different categories and subject areas.

This website is the Family Center on Technology and Disability. This is a great website that provides a lot of resources (family guides, a glossary, basic information, facts sheets, discussions, and more) about assistive technology and how AT can help children with disabilities.

This website is the National Association of Special Education Teachers. I think it's a great resource for special education teachers and general education teachers. There is information about conferences, professional development, IEP development, resources, special education law, and so much more.

Lessons, interactives, calendar activities, and more, right at your fingertips. Read write think is a great resource for lesson plans but also has many types of free templates available for graphic organizers. I have primarily used read write think for brainstorming in the classroom as many of their organizational templates are great accommodation for visual learners or students who really benefit from structure.

twitter for academia, link from Richardson book, chapter 7

This free online tool is used to make photo slideshows for webpages. Easy to upload pictures and add text.

Great resourse for teachers starting to use more technology in their classrooms

I liked the Reading Zone Blog because it is comprised of a young English teacher's lesson ideas, book reviews, and other classroom tips. It is well organized and easy to read. I found many of her blogs useful to my own teaching.

I found this blog to be useful because it contained video and reading methods that are related to English or Reading. This blog contains helpful links to other websites and is simply formatted so that it is easy to read.

This blog is witty and entertaining while still being a good source of advice for new teachers. The author is very real and I found some of her personal reflections moving.

This is a great math website for elementary and middle school students. It contains a lot of information along with fun activities, games, worksheets, and quizzes.

This site has lots of search engine sites for younger kids and links for kids to submit and read book reviews, along with many other resources.

Doing book projects or history projects? This is a Google Doc template for creating fake Facebook pages for historical figures.

Fit kids clubhouse has loads of ideas to engage young students in the learning process. The Preschool Science matters blog introduces a great lesson on solids, liquids, and gas using balloons that I could easily adapt to a 2nd grade level. I love that through this lesson a three year old child made the statement, "a solid is heavier than a liquid", brilliant.

I love Reader's Theater!! Thanks for adding this Valerie :)

So we recently interviewed (I am a dept. chair) candidate for an opening we have. Beyond the many great things one of those interviewed said, she mentioned a website called Donor Choose which even my co-English chair knew about - but apparently not me!

Teaching History with Technology is an EdTechTeacher resource created for K-12 history and social studies teachers to incorporate technology into their courses.

Teachers Guide on The Use of Graphic Organizers in The Classroom free graphic organizers Med kharbach Gone are the days when planning and thinking were done mainly by pen and paper.Technology have made it pretty much easier to think in different other ways.