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This is a great resource! I have an interactive whiteboard and the students love listening/viewing the online stories. I think it also shows a positive message from famous actors that reading is important. Thanks for sharing!

Have your students listen to a story being read by a famous person.

This website is provided through the Screen Actors Guild foundation. Stories are read by actors. There are about 25 stories geared more for younger children. They provide options to comment on the stories or buy the books.

This website compiles games from around the Internet in one location. Each of the games correlates with topics learned in physics lessons. The games are entertaining for the students but also provide teachers with springboards into more difficult topics like gravity, force, motion, and Newton's Laws.

The Science Spot is a one stop shop for free lesson plans, resources, worksheets, hands on activities and numerous other resources. If you teach science this site should be on the top of your favorites list. The quality of the materials and resources on this site are excellent and best of all it is free. 

make your own QR codes!

Tons of links to incorporating the iPad in the classroom! Kathy Schrock has more than just iPad information so it's a great resource for teachers!

Great website if you need help with rubrics. It also includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards.

Assessment of student mastery of content takes many forms. This pages includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. It also contains some information on the creation of rubrics and assessment in general.

This website offers free printables for teachers including graphic organizers, handwriting paper for both primary and secondary education, monthly newsletters, teacher recording forms, etc. This website is very easy!

This website offers all the lesson plans based off the scope and sequence for your grade level. Click on the common core standard you are working on and a complete lesson plan in the newest Marzano district plan format will appear, including evidence based scales and learning goals for the unit.

Educational technology resources - lots of great things for teachers to use to help them understand the world of edtech! Updated frequently.

Great source for resources, ideas, tips & tricks. Includes iPad information

Very useful comprehensive list of links to all kinds of tech skills for teachers, from iMovie to Dropbox to designing a technology-rich inquiry activity. Links good for teachers at all levels, from preschool through graduate level.

Free online Dictionary including thesaurus, children's and intermediate dictionary by Wordsmyth.

Dave Brown if you have any comments or suggestions.

A creative studio space to explore storytelling and the moving image. Download free video, images and sound and upload your own media. Create your own storyboards and share them online.

This page provides useful information and resources to teachers about assessments, professional learning and various instructional resources.

In the article, it states that, "teachers of social studies content are less likely than teachers of other content areas to utilize technology in their classroom." This research study (carried out by a UCF faculty member) focuses on how a technology coordinators' beliefs towards technology, instruction, and students impacted how technology was used during a technology-enriched project with a group of fourth grade students. It was found that the coordinator's beliefs did in fact directly impact how technology was used.

This article by Dr. David Boote and Dr. Penny Beile (UCF) describes the characteristics of a sophisticated literature review for dissertations, which is also applicable for any literature review done, and also provides a rubric. (Use your NID to log in to UCF's Federated Id for access to library services and more).

Pan, C., & Thompson, K. (2009). Exploring dynamics between instructional designers and higher education faculty: An ethnographic case study. Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange, 2(1), 33-52.