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We now live in a world that is more connected than ever before. The Internet touches almost all aspects of everyone's daily life, whether we realize it or not. Recognizing the importance of cybersecurity to our nation, President Obama designated October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

Lesson plans for Black History Month: African American Inventors and Inventions

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators offers teacher resources, including categorized lists of sites that are useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. I like how there is a link for new sites for the month and also a theme for the month.

Teachers and students can submit a poem using a certain word each month. It allows great feedback and interaction with the children's author.

An extensive, easy to navigate website with so much information about technology integration in the classroom. All pages are applicable and informative so it's hard to bookmark just one. Check out the Video of the Month (for Sept) and think about our online world today!

A webpage dedicated to Early Childhood Education poems with links for any month, season, subject or theme.

Those who have worked within New Student Programs and Orientation know that summers are not a time for vacation or downtime. The months of June and July stacked tightly, back to back, with transition programs for new students and their families.

I have identified thirteen literacies important for students to master, which you can see below. This is the second in a series. Last month I discussed financial literacy. The topic for this month is visual literacy.

The Connected Educator Month (CEM) initiative networks educators and education stakeholders through connected professional learning experiences worldwide. Over the past three years, millions of educators and others around the world have participated in hundreds of professional development and other educational opportunities, offering highly distributed, diverse, and engaging activities to all stakeholders at all levels.

Happy Bathtub Party Day! Calendar site with links and histories. Great way to start class discussion.

"Trucker Buddy matches classes of students with professional truck drivers. Every week drivers share news about their travels with their class. Once a month, students write letters to their drivers. Students' skills in reading, writing, geography, mathematics, social studies, and history are enhanced and learning is fun."

This is a website designed to provide students with projects centered on Technology and Science subjects. The projects are intended to be completed during the summer, off school, months so that students continue learning.

Unfortunately this site is only free for 14 day trial. The minimum price is $9.00/month. The cool about this site is that you can create animation. It is an animation site to create movie, stories. It is simple to use by dragging the cartoon from the tool box. this can be used with students to create digital stories.

Create animated videos and presentations in the classroom. This is great for digital storytelling.

PowToon is an online business presentation software tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated video explainers as an alternative to using powerpoint