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American Association of School Librarians website. Links to other useful websites for media sharing, digital storytelling, classroom management & organization, social networking & communication, content resources, and curriculum collaboration! Excellent FREE resources for the clasroom!

This website has everything you could possibly need for the classroom. There are tons of resources to incorporate technology in your classroom! This website allows you to select a topic or category used in your classroom. Each topic has additional resources such as websites, lesson plans, tutorials and worksheets.

Units with integrated technology & resources for K-6 classrooms.

This website contains information on Interactive White Boards and how they are used in the classroom. The website also provides information on other classroom resources as well as professional development opportunities.

Attached is the plan which OCPS has created for implementing Digital Classrooms. Check page 13 to see when your classroom will become "digital".

The OCPS Digital Classroom Plan provides a five-year perspective of technological enhancements.

Voki is a free service that lets you create customized avatars and add voice to your Voki avatars. You can post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile.

What is Voki? Voki is a FREE service that lets you: Create customized avatars. Add voice to your Voki avatars. Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile. Take advantage of Voki's learning resources. What is Voki Classroom? A classroom management system for Voki Students do not need to sign up!

Character creation for education - create a digital lesson for your students - set up a digital classroom

Excellent place to find resources for the elementary classroom! Search by grade specific or subject area specific criteria....

The Scholastic website @ http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp is a wonderful website designed for students, parents, and teachers. This website contains reading lesson plans created for student's prekindergarten through twelfth grade. This website a contains numerous resources including reading pintables that could be used in a classroom. I would highly recommend this website for students, parents and teachers.

This is a great website for teachers to have in their back pocket when dealing with students in the Tiered System we implement in Florida. It has academic as well as behavior interventions and resources teachers can use in their classroom.

I have used this in the classroom before and think that it has some great information on historical events put in terms younger children will understand.

I know other people have posted Ben's Guide, but here's the K-2 section of the web site, which includes games and activities, as well as additional links and resources for the students. I particularly like the subtopic about "My Neighborhood," as it is relevant to what I will be teaching my students in my own classroom and I love supplemental material!

Ben's Guide to US Government, K-2.  Includes sub topics relevant to the grade I teach, including "Your Neighborhood."  Website also includes games and activities, lots of visuals and videos, and also additional resources and websites for the students to explore.

Lots of great ideas, resources, and lessons for how to use SMART boards in elementary classrooms!

This link provides a wealth of free educational resources for teachers.

This site is designed to support teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to elementary school students. On this site you will find fun and exciting resources to help keep your students motivated to learn, without sacrificing the learning experience. This site is especially great for classrooms with multimedia capabilities. Introduce new vocabulary with the vocabulary viewer, play fun flash games for the classroom, and print your own customized worksheets and flashcards. You can also download PowerPoint presentations and use fun teaching tools.

A great article regarding apps and BYOD in the elementary classroom. This article also links to other resources and research.

Easy to navigate site for multiple grade levels and topics

Virtual Classroom Management is a collection of free online tools gathered by the Technology Resource Teachers of Frederick County, Maryland. Tools include timers, noise monitors, point trackers, random name generators, charts, and more. Online Stopwatch includes analog and digital timers as well as an egg timer, stopwatch (count up or down), talking clock, metronome, chess clock, an interval timer, and split lap timer.

Planning for using NFC in the classroom; support, point of view, and resources

Technology has become highly advanced and is used in almost every aspect of our lives. Yet most schools continue to fall behind when it comes to integrating forms of new technology into the classroom. Technology has allowed educators to move beyond traditional blackboards and chalk.

This site is a great resource and a must for all Florida teachers. I was able to find several helpful websites to use in classroom, required standards, and much more,

This site has many resources and ideas on how to use technology in the classroom. It mentions things like Twitter and how to implement mobile devices. With this day and age, I think this might be useful! I particularly like the links to K-2 resources!