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This site links to electronic resources, including a site with free images for educational use and a site with all types of historical and current maps available.
If you love to use Google Earth with your students, then you will love this website. Google Earth is taken to a new level as you are able to drive through and over the cities and features of the world. My students love playing this game. It gives them a virtual 3D image of famous places like Mount Everest, the Leaning Tower, Magic Kingdom and many more.
FCIT is funded by the Florida Department of Education, school districts, educational foundations, and others to provide leadership, instructional materials, and support services to educational institutions in Florida and beyond with regard to the integration of technology into K-20 education.
With my position as elementary computer lab teacher, these goodies will come in handy. Sites like this will enable me to give my students more options and tools to work with during their creative projects on the computer.
The Florida Center for Instructional Technology is located at USF and is funded by the Florida Department of Education. It provides links to numerous educational technology resources.
The Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) provides leadership, instructional materials, and support services to educational institutions with regard to the integration of technology into K-20 education. Has thousands of royalty-free clipart and images.
I really like the resources for presentations and technology incorporation in the classroom in the Educational Technology Clearinghouse section of the site.
In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.
I saw this visual from Bill Ferriter and I just wanted to share it on my blog because I believe in a lot of what it says. To see the original image, you can find it here from Bill's awesome F...
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