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Edmodo helps connect all learners with the people and resources needed to reach their full potential. It's a free and safe way for students and teachers to connect and collaborate.

Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.

Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.

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.

A great read about technology integration in the classroom and using technology in general.

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!

Great ideas for keeping students motivated/learning and connected over breaks. I especially loved the calendar idea, with a new "surprise" to uncover every day.

The STEM Network's purpose is to connect science, technology, engineering and math educators to discuss, explore and share best practices and research in STEM teaching and student learning through the use of technology.

This article is about Mobile learning: Positioning Educators for a Mobile, Connected Future. M-learing lends itself to new methods of delivery that are highly suited to the"just enough , just in time and just for me" demands of twenty-first century learners.

Cool stories of "amazing unexpected outcome from something shared online." What does this say about Connectivism, networked learning, connected learning, or the power of the web for facilitating interactions and empowering learning? Tell your own story at: http://bit.ly/145BUTI

Schoology is an online learning management system. It offers many free features to teachers, such as: Personalized Homepage, Course Profiles, Calendar, Online Homework Dropboxes, Create Assignments and Events, Create Tests and Quizzes, Online Gradebook and Attendance, Track Student Usage and Course Analytics, User Connections (Professional Networks), Messaging, Customizable Notifications, Announcements, Discussions, Group Workspaces (Collaboration), and more...

Connect your classroom to the world - A free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom. Meet new people, talk to experts, share ideas and create amazing learning experiences with teachers from around the world.

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.

I could not have said this any better!! "... In the past, online learning has tended to be isolating and less participatory and has been distinct from using technology in the classroom. But going forward, interactions will be key. Just as people engage in online interactions-around virtual sports teams, cooking, or whatever-students will be able to engage in participatory learning experiences online in and out of the classroom" My previous online classes I felt really alone. There was no collaboration except for group assignment. We all had a name but no identity. However, in today's learning environment, online learning is anything but boring and lonely. There are endless ways to connect. Being able to connect with classmates/peers and share information can be very rewarding. .

In a new paper, Darrell West explains how mobile technology can transform learning and act as a catalyst for creating impactful change in the current system.

In a new paper, Darrell West explains how mobile technology can transform learning and act as a catalyst for creating impactful change in the current system.

Research on mobile technology in education

Research on mobile technology in education

The new organization, named Collective Shift, wants to connect schools, businesses, libraries, museums, and city leaders in efforts to build new "ecosystems of learning."

The SkoolPad platform connects teachers, parents and students and offers an array of helpful links to educational content and resources.

On this page, you will find resources to help students connect science content to things they can see and experience. Videos, Interactive Explorations, and Interactive Videos engage students and encourage them to explore more on their own with your help.

Social media prepares folks to be great marketers

The Stacks for Kids, the new destination about books, reading, authors, games. Kids connect to books through online friends in their community profiles.

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.