This website is a compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher's tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. These resources are categorized under four categories: Social Learning, Learning, Lesson Planning and Tools, and Useful Tools. The "Social Learning" section includes tools that use social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Tools listed under "Learning" includes educational resources to help teachers make lessons fun, interesting and more effective. "Lesson Planning and Tools" provides teachers with tech tools to pull together lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects. Last but not least, "Useful Tools" can help teachers stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools.
While Twitter is touted as a venue for timely information and communications, there are situations in which it is desirable to search for tweets older than those listed within Twitter's native, two-week search window. This annotated list provides some options.
Wow! A great resourse for technology and education: books and resources on the latest tech gadgets and what they can be used for, technology integration recommendations, and even a reading list for professional growth as an educator. A must-see page.
The FLDOE website is so full of information sometimes navigation can be a challenge. I liked this list of Florida fieldtrip resources. Many have free teacher resources.
I know field trips are not as easy to organize these days, but here's a link of Florida field trip locations I found on the DoE web site. A lot of these locations have pretty cool interactive web sites that offer "digital field trips" which could be an alternative.
For your future Paleontologist. This website is a free and informative website about dinosaurs. They can learn about dinosaurs and even list the ones they want to learn about. Learn the history and play games
Speaking of Online Presence/Identity as a Teacher... an interesting article about collaboration through Twitter within the Educational Field. Includes groups that may be of interest for you to join, a list of Twitter hashtags in Education, and profiles of Educators you might want to follow.
A 47 page annotated, categorized list of (mainly) free online tools to support technology integration into the K12 classroom leading to blended learning.
Best of the best teacher blogs
The blogs mentioned in this list were the finalists for Edublogger Awards 'Best Teacher Blog for the year 2012. Check them out and try to subscribe to the RSS feeds of the ones you like. Enjoy
Bitly is a way to save and share links that also shortens the URL links that you share. Their blog is frequently updated with information on the multiple ways that bitly can be used to you advantage - this particular post goes over some basics of "bitmarks."
The Georgia Department of Education website listed this page for curriculum access for students with significant cognitive disabilities. They have developed many resources to support the instruction of students with significant cognitive disabilities.