EDU614 Integrating Technology

This website offers social stories and videos regarding common everyday occurrences. I found this website useful for students with special needs. One game in particular that stood out for me was "Rufus Goes to School". First, a video plays introducing Rufus and the beginning of his day. After the video, the students can proceed to the game where they are to help Rufus make choices and cope with the changes in his day. I loved this site, it was not only visually stimulating but also engaging and meaningful to the students everyday life and routine.

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A list of the top25 online tools for the classroom with links.

This site offers social stories and picture cue cards to aid students in learning everyday routines. Some of the topics include personal care and hygiene, safety, food and eating habits as well as calendar practice. These pictures would be great to use as a reference tool for the students, and have them review in the morning before their daily begins.

Besides adaptable classroom activities, the newsletters from Random house are also good resources to keep.

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(WIRED) -- More and more schools are jumping on the digital bandwagon and adopting iPads for daily use in the classroom. Apple's education-related announcements last week will no doubt bolster the trend, making faculty tools and student textbooks more engaging and accessible.

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a few ideas on how to use Wordle for instruction

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.

students can create "fake" profile facebook like pages for historical figures or characters in books

This website is accessible for all ages, elementary, middle and high school. It has four main tools and services: The Renzulli Profiler, Differentiation Engine, Grouping and Reporting Tools, and Personal Success Plan. The Renzulli Profiler uses a strengths based assessment to find out a student's top three strengths, interests, and learning and expression styles. The Grouping and Reporting Tool then takes these results and uses them to group students.

Results from a randomized control trial with students deemed ready to take Algebra I in 8th grade, but their school doesn't offer the course.

These are some fabulous-looking tools! Everything from graph creation to time-line generators. . . a cool resource to click around on.

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

for elementary and middle school teachers. Provide each student with their own blog.

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.

this teacher discusses different ways that technology is used in his classroom.

some lesson plan ideas for multiple subjects k-5

AWESOME - practice problems with immediate feedback, optional hint and links to video tutorials