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"Welcome to the Teachers Without Borders social network, a global community of teachers working to connect education and human welfare. This is a place to connect, share experiences and resources, and support colleagues from around the world. Membership is FREE and will give you access to colleagues, information and resources you can use for your professional needs and goals, ad to support education initiatives in your schools and communities." #teachers

Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology

Distance Learning Resource Network (DLRN) - This is the dissemination project for the Star Schools Program, a federally funded distance education program that helps small or isolated schools in rural areas use new technologies to offer courses to students, and professional development to teachers, that they could not otherwise provide. This Web site includes general information about distance education; instructional modules, enrichment activities and courses; summaries of current research; and online course-design tools....

Resources for teachers taking their classrooms into the 21st century with project-based learning ideas, inquiry based activities, and tools for flipping the classroom. #PBL

The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit operating foundation dedicated to promoting a vision of inspired learning and teaching - where students are challenged and engaged, have access to interactive technologies, and are supported by inspired teachers and involved parents and communities. Edutopia spotlights classrooms where innovations are taking place. This organization has a plethora of materials/resources for all teachers in all content areas, and I refer to it a lot in my own practice for suggestions.

My twitter profile that I have been using as a professional resource.

YouTube is a resource site where you can host, tag and share videos. If you want to use a video, you can either link to it on the YouTube site or embed it into a web page or blog. It is therefore a useful resource of user-generated video content.

This is the National Education Association's technology page. They offer many different resources to integrating technology into the classroom.

"A major roadblock or barrier to implementing the flipped classroom is that many educators do not know what to do in the classroom with the time once spent doing lectures. For educators, who are used to and use the didactic model, a framework is needed to assist them with the implementation of the Flipped Classroom." This is a good resource to share with students in my education programs as they learn to integrate technology into their teaching practice.

My blog for EDUC506

21 century technology ideas to use in the classroom.

Teaching with wikis

ThingLink's technology makes it possible to embed audio, video and rich media links directly in images and share them across the web.