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Teach your students how to evaluate their own writing with kid-friendly rubrics. Based on Common Core grade-level expectations, criteria are clear and scoring is simple.

Teach your students how to evaluate their own writing with kid-friendly rubrics. Based on Common Core grade-level expectations, criteria are clear and scoring is simple.

There are a couple dozen ways to 'use' technology in education. There are also a couple dozen ways to integrate technology in education. Think those two things are the same? Think that throwing a few iPads and a few Edudemic blog posts into a classroom is the best way to launch a 1:1 initiative?

During the preschool years, young children are developing a sense of initiative and creativity. They are curious about the world around them and about learning. They are exploring their ability to create and communicate using a variety of media (crayons, felt-tip markers, paints and other art materials, blocks, dramatic play materials, miniature life figures) and through creative movement, singing, dancing, and using their bodies to represent ideas and experiences.

Research article written by the following authors: Lisa A. Dieker (lisa.dieker@ucf.edu) is Pegasus Professor and Lockheed Martin Eminent Scholar Chair; Carrie L. Straub is director of research for TLE TeachLivE; Charles E. Hughes is Pegasus Professor of Computer Science and codirector of the Synthetic Reality Laboratory; Michael C. Hynes is Pegasus Professor of Education and director of the School of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership; and Stacey Hardin is a doctoral candidate in exceptional education. All authors are at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Research article written by the following authors: Lisa A. Dieker (lisa.dieker@ucf.edu) is Pegasus Professor and Lockheed Martin Eminent Scholar Chair; Carrie L. Straub is director of research for TLE TeachLivE; Charles E. Hughes is Pegasus Professor of Computer Science and codirector of the Synthetic Reality Laboratory; Michael C. Hynes is Pegasus Professor of Education and director of the School of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership; and Stacey Hardin is a doctoral candidate in exceptional education. All authors are at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhyth...

Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhyth...

Awesomelibrary.org is an excellent website for educators. This website has links for teachers that are organized by subject. The topics vary from subject to subject (i.e. U.S. government or writing). What I liked most about this website is the mini-lessons that are provided for each subject. This is a great tool for reteaching activities in the classroom.

The Awesome Library organizes 33,000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources for teachers. It contains a directory, an index, and a search engine. This site has valuable resources for teachers, parents, and students. There are activities, lesson plans, games, and additional help for teachers and parents to help their students.

This is a great resource for educating your classroom on plagiarism. Teachers are concerned about plagiarism not because they are mean-spirited or suspicious but because they are responsible for supporting honest, responsible scholarship.

Educational games and apps for grades K - 5. The games are math and language arts related.

This is a fun and educational website! There are some things it asks you to download from itunes, but there are many, many games and apps available for free. This site offers great math and language arts computer games for elementary students grades k-5.

This is a great website to use with all grade level students. It includes educational games for all subjects!

A quick guide that may give much needed inspiration to teachers who are battling a case or two of the tuned-out student.

An article that will reconfirm the efforts you are putting into your professional blog.

This free website allow you to create collaborative stories with your students. The stories can be view and published. Students can vote for the stories they like. Stories are created in groups of 5.

Nanoogo is an online e-portfolio. On this site students can create and share their ideas . This is a digital canvas that the students can share with classmates and parents. Parents can comment on students work. The site is currently free. It is recommended to sign on soon because they are considering charging a fee.

This article is introducing a rubric for assessing interaction in distance learning.

This article is about Mobile learning: Positioning Educators for a Mobile, Connected Future. M-learing lends itself to new methods of delivery that are highly suited to the"just enough , just in time and just for me" demands of twenty-first century learners.

Although a lens to view the future is clouded, and must be filtered through the past and present, the ability to stand back and think about the impact of technologies on student learning will undergird research in technology for the education of children, youth, and adults with disabilities in the 21st century. We must view the coming changes, and they will be massive, from the perspective that technology provides access to learning but does not control it; that technologies are not the content of education鉹ather, they provide a cornucopia of tools for learning.

The topic of future trends in technology for schools involves an incredible amount of inherent change, especially in reference to technology capabilities. This site is an introduction to many of the aspects of technology change that will impact education in the next few years. The goal of the site is to give administrators a glimpse into the rich technology resources available on the Web. Using this site for "just-in-time" references to issues that all administrators will or are currently facing, will assist districts in managing change through research and understanding.  Some current pivotal issues include a clear understanding of possible affects of technology tools will have on learning styles, facilities planning, student achievement, budgeting, and teacher preparation.

This is a quick, neat article to inform you about how kids are using technology to make a difference in the world--mainly by drawing attention to a cause through the web. Check it out.

Check out how Education Technology is spreading to Pinterest-- click on the recommendations within the article to find new ideas and tools to use in the classroom! You may just find someone inspiring to follow as well.

Boards are created by teachers, admins, and other education enthusiasts. There are new blogs, tools, and ideas shared daily.

There are many different lesson plans to use for each subject.

This is a good site to get some ideas to share with your students.

An iPhone app that allows teachers to call more parents, more often. With Dash, teachers can log student performance and generate a daily speed dial of parent numbers. At the end of each conversation, Dash instantly creates a call log and analytics that inform future parent contact and ensure no student is overlooked. Parent engagement and data that teachers need to fast-track student success are now only a click away.