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For teachers already struggling to keep their students engaged, a computer is more hindrance than help.

Here's a good article by Kelli Marshall that talks about the importance of building your own digital identity, because she explains that if you don't make an effort to do it yourself, someone else will do it for you. The article provides some good pointers on things we can do to take control of solidifying our digital presence. A must read!

This programming tool for young kids makes video games and more.

A plainspoken, non-technical overview of basic HTML tags bloggers may find useful for making tweaks to their content and why they might want to do so. Also includes links to additional HTML resources for those who want more.

This is a great website for digital storytelling. Students can create their own digital stories, animations, pictures and more. Students will need a sign in, and as a teacher you can create class accounts.

A creative website where students can make artwork, an animated movie, cards, and a drawing. Students can also vote on movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made.

Great resources for reading teachers. Includes lesson plans and activities. Kids can make their own stories.

Use PowerPoint to create video of animated characters, equations, and objects.

From WordPress, but the suggestions would work for most blog sites.

A robust rebuttal of Prensky, Tapscott, et al's assertions that contemporary generations are more technologically proficient than their predecessors. The counter-argument is that our society has become more technological and individuals are more or less well adapted to this change. The author of this rebuttal (Pontefract) makes a case based upon logic, personal experience, and several recent research studies.

This is a very well, designed and user friendly classroom blogging tool. I have been using it with my fifth graders and it is working very well. I can review all of the content before allowing it to be posted. I can make comments and mark errors and re-submit it to the student to be corrected. I can even pull up a blog as an example and edit it in front of the class without telling them whose blog it is. Pretty cool :-)

Create a Class Account in Storybird and your students can create their own storybird books.

Make, read, and share visual stories. A global community of readers, writers, and artists of all ages. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories.

Make your own cloud, design a track for a ball to follow to a bucket. Fun, inventive activities for children.

Easy to navigate site for multiple grade levels and topics

Make managing your digital classroom even easier with TodaysMeet Teacher Tools, a toolbox just for teachers. Makes it easier to allow multiple students to respond to questions at once without having to wait.

Information about how to make correct choices and advice about cyber bullying and related concerns in regards to Special Needs Students

This site discusses the app Explain Everything, which I used to make my first digital storytelling presentation. It is great for a little bit of screen casting on a tablet. The app lets you export as a video as well.

"PARTS OF THESES. AND TAILOR THEM OT YOUR CLASS. I WILL BE POSTING NEW ONES AS I MAKE THEM AND FIND THEM IN THE FUTURE ON THIS PAGE. SORT OF AS A LARK HERE IS THE FIRST TECH RUBRIC I MADE ABOUT 9 YEARS AGO ON A PROJECT CALLED POSTCARDS FROM THE WEB CLICK ON EACH PICTURE OF THE RUBRIC TO GET A  PDF DOCUMENT OF EACH ONE. FIRST RUBRIC I EVER MADE IF YOU HAVE ONE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SEND IT TO ME AND I WILL POST IT HERE. MOST OUR PDF DOC AND YOU JUST HAVE TO CLICK ON THEM TO DOWNLOAD. TECHNOLOGY RUBRIC 6-8 RUBRIC FOR GRADES 3-5 RUBRIC TO EVALUATE TEACHER USE TEHCNOLOGY RUBRIC FOR GRADES K-2 One response Emesar Thank you…This entry helps me so much as a guide for me to complete my assignment… December 4, 2013 at 4:17 pm Leave a Reply April 2015 M T W T F S S « Mar       1"

Online resources for college students have made an entire revolution in education, not only because they are convenient and accessible, but because they make the entire process of teaching and learning more interesting and memorable.