Mind map for using Google. Links include classroom tools, google teacher academy, teacher community, NECC presentations, classroom activities, and classroom posters. I like the way the author used the web to map everything out. Kind of reminds me of a sports playoff bracket but in this case it's used to help you pinpoint exactly what you need.
This web site offers a variety of video segments for teachers to see math, reading, classroom management and more ideas in action. The hardest thing for teachers is to be a fly on the wall in another classroom in order to gain new ideas. Check out this web site to find an area for you!
Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access. You can enter this site use guest login without registration.
This interactive web site for students ranging from pre-K to eighth grade is published by Family Education Network. It offers skills practice in reading, math, and literacy. The web site even has books such as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and more. You will surely find activities and games for your students to enjoy!
Web-based resources powered through Symbaloo (an online bookmarking tool) that support and enhance instruction for teachers, staff, and administrators.
An innovative and unique practice involving two classes of information technology (IT) major student teachers, who created digital learning resources and assessment rubrics by utilizing a Web 2.0 tool.
This page documents ways to use productivity tools in the media center, gives the 5 most used productivity tools, and lots "more to explore" at the bottom of the page.
Other benefits of online productivity tools would have to include the fact that work can be authored and edited by multiple people from their own computers, accessed from home or from school, and stored, shared and published online.
If you believe that technology is a distraction and not a way to enhance educational practices, you're probably not using it correctly.
When we were kids, did we leave school every day thinking that we had to go home and do research. Homework was something that got in the way of our play. We wanted to go outside and play games or stay inside and play video games. As we grew older we wanted to connect with our friends by playing sports or talking on the phone. Suddenly, we became adults and expect all students to want to go home and do research.
Our job as educators is to build a bridge between what they use it for and what we want them to use it for.
The reality is that it plays an important part in our lives and keeps us connected. We live busy lives so having multiple ways to connect with people is a strength and not a weakness. It's how we communicate that matters. Teaching students about the benefits and the pitfalls is important.
Being the barrier because it doesn't coincide with your views isn't helping anyone