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Kelly Kusterman's About Me page!

A free community for sharing instructional videos and content for teachers and students. We are an education focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.

This is a wonderful resource that provides everything you need know about incorporating Microsoft PowerPoint into your class' lessons. It tells you the pros and cons of powerpoint, as well as advice and resources for learning the basics of using the program.

Great way for teachers to get lesson plan ideas!

Social networking community of instructional videos with "teachers teaching teachers.

A free community for sharing instructional videos and content for teachers and students. We are an education focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.

One of the world's most popular video games has made significant inroads into K-12 classrooms, opening new doors for teaching everything from city planning to 1st graders to physics for high schoolers. The game, of course, is Minecraft, a 21st-century version of Legos in which players use simple 3-D digital blocks to build and explore almost anything they can imagine.

Teachers share ideas on organization within their classroom on this social networking site.

While the Florida Department of Education does not officially endorse any specific technology standards or models of teaching with technology, the resources provided are made available to assist educators and administrators with the facilitation of technology integration into classrooms, schools, and school districts.

CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards. It is the State of Florida's official source for standards information and course descriptions.

Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework that guides curriculum redesign to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all students based on scientific insights into how humans learn. It provides strategies of implementation, as well as examples.

As I move in to a role where I will be working with other colleagues on a more formal basis when it comes to e-learning, I have been reflecting upon different Apps. I was thinking about SAMR and which Apps can have transformative learning linked to them, if used properly.

When most of us hear the word A simple picture book such as Similarly, economics, we think of either our present precarious financial circumstances, or of world financial issues far beyond our own understanding, let alone the understanding of our students.

Distance education, as once described by a colleague, is sitting in the back row of a three hundred-seat auditorium. It has traditionally been thought that to successfully teach a large class, you needed to herd students into an auditorium, and proceed to lecture them for several hours.

This website provides resources for teaching reading that are founded in research. Information about Common Core and other information can be used to inform reading instruction.

August 18, 2014 I love rubrics and I find them particularly helpful in lesson plan designing as well as in assessing students work. I know some teachers and educators think of them as "so yesterday" but we need to view them as roadmaps that can guide you towards achieving your teaching/learning goals.

Creative ideas with digital storytelling

Digital storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge. This page includes links to support the use of digital storytelling for both teaching and learning. If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it.And, if you have another great digital storytelling site to share, let me know as well!

A support page for the presentation Digital Storytelling

At The Stacks, students can post book reviews, get reading recommendations, play games based on the latest series, watch " Meet the Author" videos, and more. It's like Facebook for reading and it's safe for school, too. Use Book Wizard to level your classroom library, find resources for the books you teach, and create reading lists with the click of a button.

Media literacy education maven Faith Rogow, will discuss the difference between warning children about media and a skill-building approach to media literacy. We'll also introduce a new, free professional development and teaching resource from NAMLE.