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This website offers a wealth of scholarly papers addressing theories and  issues in educational technology.

This is a brief, interesting article that highlights some of the components we have been learning in EME5050.  The author discusses and evaluates the increasing openness of education, particularly through online environments.  

Teacher and blogger Monica Burns recommends some of her favorite free iPad apps that help teachers and students create engaging presentations.

Teacher and blogger Monica Burns recommends some of her favorite free iPad apps that help teachers and students create engaging presentations.

Tons of great articles on EdTech topics and many, many tutorials Great discovery.

"This official site of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. features links to each of the Smithsonian's museums and their exhibitions, as well as special online resources in art and design, history and culture, and science and technology." I love this site because the student can through this Site Search any branch of the Museum of Smithsonian. Also this site the student can identify and look at the audience and other cultures to recognize it at first hand. The teacher can use this site to explain other cultures and civilizations to be presented to students in an interesting way to increase the knowledge of students.

"This digital story emulates the process a 2nd/3rd grade class went through learning how to create digital stories using Garage Band's Enhanced Podcasting feature."

The Digital Storytelling consists of seven elements of effective digital stories:

1.Point of View 2.A dramatic question 3.Emotional Content 4.The gift of your voice 5.The power of the soundtrack 6.Economy 7.Pacing

"This is the course blog for the 2010 UMN Summer Bridge to Academic Excellence Digital Storytelling course"

This article gives you an idea about what the "most innovative" schools in the world--and in the U.S.--are doing differently.

A great little article to help you visualize the benefits of a technologically-fit English classroom.

Hot to embed a survey into your blog posts

Blog post about how audiobooks can help struggling and reluctant readers.

Educators and tech experts discussing the future of ed tech.

This article is written by Dr. Campbell, it talks about the importance of integrating Technology into the classroom. She talks about how students love social media and using their phone. Therefore, it is important for a teacher to continuously utilize these tools to further interest and engage the students in the classroom. She also talks about various tools the teachers can use in the classroom to further interest the students in the curriculum. Such tools may include Prezi, Voicethread, Tagxedo, and Museum Box.

Create an online course that will engage and delight students around the world using OpenLearning. Whether you have 8 students or 8,000, OpenLearning has the scale, experience and flexibility to enable you to create and run a course for students worldwide.

Pinterst is a great social media site for teachers to use to find diy (do it yourself) teacher materials, classroom management techniques and various other great ideas to use in your classroom for your students. I would highly reccommend this social media site because it is very easy to save the ideas that you find interesting and to go back and revisit those ideas later on at any time.

Ideas for using Powtoon in the classroom.

A great research document that compares research with online learning and face-to-face learning.

"Former Gov. Bob Wise discusses Digital Learning Day and how high school teachers can embrace technology".