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This is site was started by a professor at UCF. It describes how to create a digital book talk with students, compares them to video trailers. Teachers, parent, students can all sign on and view book digital book talks to promote reading.

Companies like Comprendio are using research to create EdTech.

Kids creating digital book commercials.

The team members in the district's Community Relations Department are dedicated to keeping Osceola County residents informed about the School Board, the Osceola School District, and the individual public schools within the district. The goal of our communication efforts is to build trust within the district and create new lines of communication throughout the district with our many education stakeholders. Areas of focus for community engagement projects and programs include: *Community Relations and Partnerships *Media Relations *Employee Relations

Good activity for understanding symmetry and for challenging those students who finish early.

I love this site I could not stop drawing it was so much fun. Thanks

Good fake Facebook platform for creating or reading about historical and literary figures. Good source for digital storytelling.

A must-use resource for Apps. Shrock categorizes Apps into "Remembering Apps," "Understanding," "Applying" "Analyzing" "Evaluating" and "Creating" according to Bloom's revised taxonomy and gives recommendations on what Apps to use.

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.

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.

This research article provides an overview of how transformative learning experiences can be created through instructional design.  The aim is to use instruction to make learning more experiential, personally relevant and transformative to students.  The authors explain a framework for providing transformative learning experiences, including several indicators that fall into the categories of developing personal meaning, competence with the subject and relationships.  The authors also present guidelines for designing these experiences, including applying design fundamentals, crafting the learning experience and teaching and facilitating to inspire learning. A quick, but worth while read! Wilson, B. G., & Parrish, P. (2011). Transformative learning experience: Aim higher, gain more. Educational Technology, 51 (2), 10-15.

Edublog Awards Winners 2011. Lists winner and several runners up for various student, teacher, class, library, ed tech, and administrator blogs. Also recognizes other categories such as best mobile app, free web tool, most influential blog post, educational wiki, open PD/webinar series, and use of a social network. I would recommend using this page for resources and ideas for creating your own educational blog.

This website allows the user to create historical timelines that can be embedded or linked. This can also be created in Spanish

Use your iPad or iPhone to create mindmaps. Great way to take and organize notes in class or meetings.

This site allows you to enter your desired topic (average, addition, mean, mode, etc.) and your desired time allowed to create a quiz that can be tracked electronically. No more paper chase..

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like.

I was asked to create an in class library with leveled books for students. This resource assisted me with data on a large selection of books to create my class library.

Consider adding a web cam for students to travel the world, study the weather, geography, or to create virtual field trips.

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Nice chart to help with planning online learning classes and creating essential learning objectives.