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This website provides access to educational films from creators like National Geographic and Nova. It can be sorted by grade level. And, it includes related discussion questions.

Edutopia is all about change and innovation in education. It is a great website to explore for new ideas, educational resources and discussion boards.

This is great website to reference to as an educator. It has a variety of information and perspective from various professional in the field of education. I love the fact that it has blogs broken down into categories that covers topics in certain grade level. Overall this website is very user friendly and truly utilizes the multimedia format.

This Website helps to learn and practice basic math functions including algebra, problem resolution skills, as well as methods of teaching students who feel frustrated with math. I think that this site provides enough information to learn and develop the skills of students in mathematics. Students can learn through private lessons individual or through a collective use of videos and with a forum for discussion with the experts.

Good article on the need to develop/ sustain an interest in "how technology works," through technology education targeted at early high school students. The Australian Computer Society, mentioned in the article, "strives for ICT to be recognised as a driver of innovation in our society . . . ." Link shared by Tony Richards from Diigo group, Ed Tech Crew.

This article discusses why technology is important for classroom use.

This has been in Beta for a while but they have a pretty good free version available. This allows for online question response and instant feedback like a set of classroom clickers some of us use. It works well and is free so check it out.

Like a Polleverywhere.com but better! Allows for quizzes, exit slips and more.

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

This article was written by UCF professors Dr. Tony Grajeda and Jay Beck discussing the importance of "sound studies" on the discipline of humanity, specifically, but also across academic disciplines.

This dissertation discusses retention rates in Career and Technical Education .

Early Childhood Educators discussing and sharing ideas. Everything from curriculum ideas to policy. Some great educational technology ideas for this age group.

This online interactive game is geared toward second graders in the hopes of introducing and reinforcing economic concepts. Students begin by creating their bakery and selling items. They soon begin to realize that to sell an item they need the materials to make it. To get the materials, they need money to purchase them. The game is highly engaging, however, a several discussions on the economic concepts are needed before students begin to grasp them concretely.

This resource contains information on several different input and output devices that can be used to help students with special needs. It also discusses different barriers that students and teachers may encounter when using these devices.

*UCF NID Account Required* *Open in New Window may be Required* The article provides an overview of the process involved in envisioning, developing and incorporating mobile technology into the curriculum at 2 institutions of higher education and a public charter school. Topics discussed include the 3 projects for experiences envisioning, developing and integrating digital media and technology at the Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a prekindergarten class at Big Pine Academy, Florida and University of Central Florida (UCF)

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.

great discussion

Annotated web resources related to educational technology shared by Vanessa

Discussion and resources for developing a Makerspace.

Media literacy education maven Faith Rogow, will discuss the difference between warning children about media and a skill-building approach to media literacy. We'll also introduce a new, free professional development and teaching resource from NAMLE.