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It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects-not to mention your social life-time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer?

This is a great website for students to use for research projects.

One more website I use from time to time. Internet4classrooms is a great site because you can find your topic and grade and you can access a bunch of projects, websites, and also lesson plans. My kids are in the prehistory chapter and I used a lesson plan from this site in which students can only use cave man sign language to talk the entire and they loved it!

Great website that shows NASA projects involving the Moon. There's an app as well for this (GRAIL).

Awesome website! This site extremely vast in educational topics and links for assistance. The teacher tool kit link is priceless. You are able to generate worksheets, create word bingo activities (great for vocabulary retention) and there are lesson plans (i.e. sentence starters). My favorite link is the alternative assessment; here, you can find ideas and rubrics for alternative assessments in your classroom.

Free literary and reference materials. Over 30,000 titles available. It was mentioned in "Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom" (Shelly, Gunter, Gunter 2010), but I thought it was important enough to make another note of.

A Massachusetts family takes a wrong turn and gets trapped in a corn maze scare. President Obama says remaining U.S. troops will leave Iraq by the end of the year. What is your class doing in honor of 9/11? Click here for service learning project ideas and more resources.

Great iPad App to scaffold digital storytelling projects- great for younger students!

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.

Turning Learning on its Head

This is a very interesting concept of using digital learning at home and then having class time be used for project based work.

Yes! Flipped Classroom is a terrific concept. I have been really wanting to try it, but have not been able to make it around to creating the videos. A great site for videos is Khan Academy...maybe I should post that! :)

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.

TEACHERS PLAY A VITAL ROLE in leading sustained efforts to improve learning in our schools. NWP teacher-leaders study and share effective practices that enhance student writing and learning, work collaboratively with other educators, design resources, and take on new roles in effecting positive change.

Great website for educators to access royalty free clip art, lesson plans, clip media, and presentations.

This website is AMAZING. It has clip-art, photographs, presentation images, maps, lessons, and answers to tech questions. There are so many images available, they are free (up to a certain amount, but it is very generous), it tells you exactly how to cite them, and it has options for file size and format. It took some clicking/digging around, but this is what led me to this site: FL DOE - Educators button at top - Curriculum, Instruction, Student Services - Instruction & Curriculum - Instructional Technology - Educational Technology Clearinghouse

FCIT (the Florida Center for Instructional Technology) and ETC (the Educational Technology Clearinghouse) provide digital content, professional development, and technical services supporting the appropriate integration of technology into K-12 and preservice education. ©2011 Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida

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This is a great site for educators, parents, students or anyone needing information on K-12 materials and beyond. It provide resources for homework, project ideas, interactive games, lesson plans, quizzes,

*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)

Everyone you must check out this site. If you want to create and sell your products for education or buy them, this is the perfect site. I am in the process of creating some things now. Cool stuff check it out!

Because no one likes reinventing the wheel. This is a great resource to find free and reasonably priced resources for the classroom made by current teachers. A personal favorite that should be looked up is The Science Penguin!

TeachersPayTeachers.com -- 1,000,000+ free and priced teaching resources created by teachers for instant download including lesson plans, unit plans, novel

This website provides three different models of rubrics that instructors can use when grading digital storytelling projects. All rubrics can be downloaded and teachers can choose which one suits their class' assignment best.

this would be great modified into a digital means Students create a variety of content types for their journals -- from written reflections to maps and diagrams -- in response to teacher prompts and open-ended questions. Below are the essential elements of the journal project: Blank journals: At the beginning of each module, teachers hand out a blank journal to each student.