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An indicting, thought provoking series of questions from a hypothetical student to each of us.

In The National Geographic Kids Blog, a group of kids selected by the National Geographic staff share their thoughts and experiences. This is a great blog for kids to follow and be able to read about things that interest them and what other kids think. Teachers can use this as a resource to introduce kids to safe and educational places on the internet that are interesting to them as well. I found this in the "Online Safety" section of Kids.gov, accessed via the publisher companion site of our textbook.

Thanks for the website! It's a great resource for students to use. Im saving it to my Diigo account too. -Lisa

This lesson plan from Interface Magazine suggests ways to incorporate Twitter in your class. They seem so easy and practical but I never would have thought of some of these methods, and I was even an early Twitter adopter. Make sure to watch the video under "The Twitter Experiment"! I found this in the "Featured Resources" section of The Gateway to Educational Materials, accessed via the publisher's companion site to our textbook.

Blog that keeps you up to date with how to incorporate technology in to Physical Education...very nice ideas and I'm sure most of us have never put much thought to including technology in PE. My father has been a PE Coach for 32 years and I thought this would be cool to share with him and others.

App breaks down student participation barriers. Connect using available technology. Students share thoughts, questions, etc anonymously!

Great idea! I just read an article about polling and thought of this type of application. Students might interact more if they were not so afraid of public failure. This could gie them the anonymity they are seeking!

This site offers a wealth of information and many great resources for teachers interested in using digital media for storytelling and other activities.  There are a number of very good, clear, screencast tutorials for teachers to use. Preview a few to see if you might be able to use them with your classes. I thought they were great for high school students, and they inspired me to think about creating my own screencasts for other tutorials! :-)

I thought this article provided an interesting perspective about evaluating the use of certain digital tools based  on the type of instructional approach a teacher planned to use. The use of polyphonic teaching lends itself to the use of digital tools. 

Just my thoughts about traditional and the future.

Edutopia blogger Andrew Marcinek provides a thoughtful course correction for teachers facing full-on technology integration, offering three suggestions for focusing on media and balancing it with what students should be learning.

See a simple thought on Digital Story Telling!

Digital Publishing Site with interesting take on getting your work out there.

ALIMA students: Teaching learning as a skill- not a consequence

I thought this was interesting since last week a lot of our complaints were the budget. I am still searching through the 320 page document, but it seems that our request for technology went down this year from last! Like Dr. K said though, "don't complain about what you can't change!"

This is a great resource for Early Childhood Education because it has all kinds of supplemental and thematic units you can use.

I thought this was a great site as well. I can;t wait to explore it further.

Recently learning that this is what we are moving to in the near future, I thought reading about what it was would be interesting. Hopefully, this will better reflect what is being taught in the classrooms!

I thought this was interesting. By using the FLDOE website, you can search for your district and see what their District Plan is for the year. I know we have been introduced to it in my school, but this goes into depth. It's great to know what you are working towards.