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A great free why to have control of students learning through technology. You can see when students are having problems from your screen. Great management tool.

Today's tutoring programs are redefining learning by telling teachers what students need, when they need it. 

Focuses on the use of iMovie, computer software for classroom storytelling activities in the United States. Difficulty of children in visualizing the setting of a story; Development of the Place Project for students; Interest of children in digital story telling.

Quick article on blogging with students. Comments are interesting as are the tips

Good information!

This site provides many applications for pictures or video such as edit, download, add, and design. The site also offers lessons for students to acquire skills. This is useful when the student is using the site to design and add three-dimensional effects of the classroom that help students visualize the environment and their effects through the image to develop the sensory side of the student. The student can also download images on the site and engage with other students, teachers, and parents.

"Websites can bring a classroom to life. There are so many different worlds you can visit. Of course the Internet also brings you to a lot if information that is not age appropriate for school students so it is important to be safe and smart when you share websites with your students."

Ron Peck (@Ron_Peck on Twitter) teaches social studies at North Valley High School in Medford, OR. A self-proclaimed history and tech geek, he's the co-creator and co-moderator of #SSChat and #APChat on Twitter. Visit his blog at http://historygeek29.blogspot.com/. How many times have you thought to yourself, "In what way can I spice up this unit and make it student-centered?"

With a highly competitive job market that is likely to be the norm for years to come, students may well need a broad range of technology-based skills in order to be prepared for the workforce. By honing those skills in K-12 settings, youngsters should be better equipped for college and beyond.

Great site for improving your tech-savy ways! Lots of info. on tools, apps, and software that you can access and use with your students. Also, great opportunity for continuing education program (Google Teacher Academy).

WOW! This is a wonderful tool to use in your classroom to enhance learning. The Geo Education link is amazing. This link allows you to access googlesky, googlemaps and googlesketchup. The googlesky link is wonderful for Earth/Space Science units in the classroom.

Unfortunately this site is only free for 14 day trial. The minimum price is $9.00/month. The cool about this site is that you can create animation. It is an animation site to create movie, stories. It is simple to use by dragging the cartoon from the tool box. this can be used with students to create digital stories.

Create animated videos and presentations in the classroom. This is great for digital storytelling.

PowToon is an online business presentation software tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated video explainers as an alternative to using powerpoint

This site automatically converts text from one language to another language. This site is easy for the student to identify all the languages by just typing the text to be converted into another language. A student can write and paste up to 1800 in the text box. This is very useful to use to learn a foreign language in classroom.

A cool way to actually use student's cell phones as a tool in the classroom.

This is the website of interAction Education is committed to creating educational software for kids and help the students to Improve their learning skills.

Text messaging used to help teachers communicate with students in a safe way? I like it!