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Helping keep the digital world civil . . . This blog post lays it all out: the rationale for teaching digital citizenship; how to start teaching it in elementary grades, and some follow up ideas for middle and high school. It's never too late to start working with students on digital citizenship, though! :-)

This websites provide teachers with various resources for teaching online safety to students.

This websites provide teachers with various resources for teaching online safety to students.

My 35 Favorite Free Apps for Teaching Schools around the country are undergoing a digital transformation. With iPads and tablets showing up in classrooms with greater frequency, trying to figure out which apps to use can leave a teacher's head spinning.

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

This is a great site for children ages 2-8. It teaches pre-reading as well as reading skills up to 2nd grade. Includes games, animated stories, songs, and writing activities. I use it daily!

Starfall is a free website that teaches children how to read through phonics. It has practice games on phonemic awaresness. The program is great for grades K-2, second language learners and special education.

Great web-site for teaching time!

Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.

You can enter your spelling words into the interactive site and the students can play games that help to reinforce the spelling skills. It also has vocabulary options.

Students will be able to study vocabulary and spelling words using technology and will be able to play interactive games. This is able to be used for all grade levels. Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with Vocabulary Spelling City!

Everyone you must check out this site. If you want to create and sell your products for education or buy them, this is the perfect site. I am in the process of creating some things now. Cool stuff check it out!

Because no one likes reinventing the wheel. This is a great resource to find free and reasonably priced resources for the classroom made by current teachers. A personal favorite that should be looked up is The Science Penguin!

TeachersPayTeachers.com -- 1,000,000+ free and priced teaching resources created by teachers for instant download including lesson plans, unit plans, novel

A great site of rubric maker tools, very informative one, recommended .

Links to tools for creating rubrics in a variety of subjects, including some that can be used for undergraduate level work, such as team work assessments and writing rubrics.

A great read about Technology Integration from the perspective of a K-12 District Technology Integrator. Effective quote: "Technology is Not pedagogy."

Peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.

Lesson plans and classroom materials designed to teach students from all grades about cyber safety, cyber security, and cyber ethics.

what must occur to become a teacher

Florida has new teaching certification renewal requirements as of July 2014.

Are you looking to renew your Florida Educator Certificate? Make sure you check out this section and look for new requirements constantly. Renewal requirements must be completed during the last validity period of the Professional Certificate and prior to expiration of the Professional Certificate.

Renewal requirements for certification (DOE)

Teaching materials

Making A Difference: Using Emerging Technologies and Teaching Strategies to Restructure an Undergraduate Technology Course for Pre-service Teachers To prepare educators for the twenty-first century, colleges of education must be leaders of change by providing pre-service teachers with a technology-enriched curriculum. Many pre-service teachers continue to enter institutions of higher learning lacking positive attitudes, proper skills, and knowledge of the use of computers. The purpose of this study was to evaluate both quantitatively and qualitatively the effectiveness of a completely redesigned introduction to technology course for pre-service teachers. The intent of this article is to share information, provide guidance for faculty considering upgrading or beginning an introduction to technology course for pre-service teachers, and to

Slideshow professional development site for sharing teaching strategies.

The website for my middle school's media center has a few excellent links.  We have links to eLibrary access, World Book Online, The Library of Congress, Teaching Books for Students, EBSCOhost, ThomsonGale database, Tumblebooks, the Lexile Framework for Reading, the ERIC online library, and the Florida Information Resource Network.

The Florida Humanities Council "Teaching Florida" website contains lesson plans and resources tied to Florida History and Humanities standards.  They also provide summer workshops for teachers to expand their knowledge about Florida humanities.