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OCPS Wordpress for teachers becomes a resource for students and parents as long as teachers create a website. Can also become a resource to other teachers.

Students can publish their writing! I have noticed an increase of motivation: one, they have to go through the steps of the writing process to log on to KidBlog because they only use it to publish and two, students truly think about their writing because their peers will be reading and commenting in on it. You can also open up their blogs for the world to view and comment! I cannot say enough great things about this site.

Technology lessons and ideas, as well as interactive whiteboard lessons, templates and subject specific material.

This website is a compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher's tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. These resources are categorized under four categories: Social Learning, Learning, Lesson Planning and Tools, and Useful Tools. The "Social Learning" section includes tools that use social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Tools listed under "Learning" includes educational resources to help teachers make lessons fun, interesting and more effective. "Lesson Planning and Tools" provides teachers with tech tools to pull together lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects. Last but not least, "Useful Tools" can help teachers stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools.

An extensive list of links and explanations for updating your class with new technologies.

This is the website I use for my class blog.  It is quick for you and your students to register, it is safe for students to use and the format is simple, yet effective.  I have already witnessed some amazing learning and sharing on this site.

Most of the time, kids know more than their parents about the internet. It's important to protect our kids from the dangers that lie within internet usage. Great advice I will give to my parents at Technology Parent Night!

A great reference for good examples of teachers successfully implementing technology in the classroom. As well as a list of free apps for the classroom!

A very useful tool for middle school and high school teachers, and maybe even later elementary grades.  Not very useful to me as a first grade teacher, but when students are asked to do research papers, and they start citing Wikipedia as a reliable source, teachers should utilize this.  :)

For any middle/high school teachers who plan on having their students write research papers - to avoid Wikipedia and other unreliable sources students may find via simple Google searches. :)

Great source for librarians! Contains articles about Twitter, social media, web 2.0, library leadership and much more!

A very practical explanation of finding images that one is free to use via Creative Commons licenses via the image sharing site Flickr. Also included are concrete summaries of each specific license type. The author mistakenly refers to CC-licensed images as "non-copyrighted," but this is not accurate technically. A copyright owner may choose to license her work for reuse/remixing, but in doing so, she does not give up her copyright. Creative Commons exists with copyright not as an alternative to it.

This blog is about a teacher's view on the use of Twitter as a learning tool and a mean of interaction in classrooms.

This blog describe the mobile learning or just wireless learning!!!!

In this webinar, you will learn: The key findings from Meru's IT survey on Wi-Fi Networks for K-12 Schools What is Uninterrupted Learning? How to build your own Uninterrupted Learning solution How easy it is to manage a computer-based classroom (LanSchool online demo) Presenters: Richard Nedwich, Director of Marketing, Education, Meru Networks Coby Gurr, Product Line Manager, Stoneware, Inc.

10 Internet technologies include: Video and Podcasting Resources;Digital Presentation Tools; Collaboration & Brainstorming Tools; Blogs & Blogging; Social Networking Tools; Lecture Capture; Student Response Systems & Poll/Survey Tools; Educational Gaming; Open Educational Resources; The iPad and other tablet devices.

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education." Images can be searched for by topic or most popular.

This is a free, copyright-friendly site for images to use in the educational process. My students use this site all the time for projects and desktop images. It's great!

Great website if you like to use photographs in your classroom. It is "copyright friendly" as long as images are used for education.

Looking for a way to incorporate Facebook into the classroom but can't because of your filter? This website offers a way for students to create their own Facebook accounts not for themselves, but for historical figures. Take a look at some of the pages created for Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and many others! Students can browse or create their own! What a great way to get their imaginations going on an historical topic!

A great resource that publishes web sites for kids about World History!

Use this as a reflection or exit slip in the classroom

This web site offers books in various languages (English, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Chinese, etc.). A great resource for teachers with English Language Learners.