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iPads are making waves in education all over the nation, even in college classrooms, where they're replacing laptops, textbooks, and notebooks. Some colleges have even gone so far as to hand out iPads to new students, helping students and faculty all work with the same technology for learning.

Power my Learning is a website dedicated to providing Teachers, Studenst and Parents with additional tech resources in all subjects and grade levels. You can watch videos, click on your grade level or subject area and find activities and games, and even read teacher blogs.

This site offers a wealth of information and many great resources for teachers interested in using digital media for storytelling and other activities.  There are a number of very good, clear, screencast tutorials for teachers to use. Preview a few to see if you might be able to use them with your classes. I thought they were great for high school students, and they inspired me to think about creating my own screencasts for other tutorials! :-)

My teachers used this when I was in high school, but I never knew what it was called! This would be great for a 1:1 classroom or computer lab!

Great teaching strategies and articles related to technology in schools.

Which ed-tech products and services do our readers like best? Here are their top 40 choices for the 2013-14 school year. This past spring, we asked readers to give us their top picks for school hardware, software, websites, and services. Nearly 700 readers responded via one of our three websites: eSchoolNews.com, eCampusNews.com, and eClassroomNews.com.

A deceptively simple set of questions school administrators (or any engaged stakeholder!) can use to evaluate the purpose and effectiveness of educational technology implementations. Influenced by the work of Marc Prensky and somewhat consistent with Welliver's Instructional Transformation model.

"'Animated Educational Video Clips"

This is an animated site for kids. Sight contains information in all subject areas. There is a fee to use all of the site but they provide some free material as well. I like the clear explanations they have on the topics.

An awesome website for elementary students! The videos can also be added to Nearpod lessons and viewed with headsets.

Schools across the country are contemplating a technology overhaul to meet new, tougher education standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, known as Common Core. Those standards take effect in the fall of 2014.

Using Skype to bring your students around the world.

A list of articles that talk about how technology is shaping high schools and college classrooms.

CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards.

FREE resource that contains FL standards' information and course descriptions. Maintained by the Florida State University.

FL Standards for reference

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

This website offers great math resources for middle school math teachers.

This page contains presidential sites and apps to gather facts, biographies, speeches, photos, audio & video files, election results, color pages, interactive games and much more

A Guide for Developing and/or Evaluating Materials for use in Florida's Public Schools The process of lesson study should promote standards‐based instruction; the development of rigorous, rich, and relevant lessons to engage students in learning content outlined in the Next Generation Sunshine State (Common Core) Course Descriptions; and professional growth for each member of the lesson study team. With this goal in mind, we propose the follow items be included in any collection of materials designed to support the work of a lesson study team; furthermore, we suggest that this be a collection of items available in an electronic format.

Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ K-5 Math aligned to the Common Core Standards empowers students to master key math concepts

This website offers a wealth of scholarly papers addressing theories and  issues in educational technology.

Ideas for using Powtoon in the classroom.