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OCPS Wordpress for teachers becomes a resource for students and parents as long as teachers create a website. Can also become a resource to other teachers.

FCAT prep for all tested content areas, grouped by benchmark and grade level. Hoping to use this with my students this year as long as we have enough computers available.

This activity will help students learn how to shelve or find books in the library.

The title of this article is : Building Student Data Literacy: An Essential Critical-Thinking Skill for the 21st Century. Authored By: Gunter, Glenda A. Critical-Thingking skills are essential in 21st century, how can teachers do to ensure our students are information-literate.

Helps explain math words in kid friendly language with visuals.

Great site for teachers to find supplement materials for their students

A neat site that provides a new math question each night, broken into three levels.

Food and Nutrition Services in Orange county public schools.

How do parents keep their kids to be safe online?

A very useful tool for middle school and high school teachers, and maybe even later elementary grades.  Not very useful to me as a first grade teacher, but when students are asked to do research papers, and they start citing Wikipedia as a reliable source, teachers should utilize this.  :)

For any middle/high school teachers who plan on having their students write research papers - to avoid Wikipedia and other unreliable sources students may find via simple Google searches. :)

A Google search engine geared towards students and teachers.  The teacher tab includes lesson plan searches and a professional development section.

I found the lesson plans tab and the professional development sections to be the most useful for teachers like myself. I would need to do a bit more investigating to decide if the student centered search engine is useful for elementary students.

I have used this in the classroom before and think that it has some great information on historical events put in terms younger children will understand.

I know other people have posted Ben's Guide, but here's the K-2 section of the web site, which includes games and activities, as well as additional links and resources for the students. I particularly like the subtopic about "My Neighborhood," as it is relevant to what I will be teaching my students in my own classroom and I love supplemental material!

Ben's Guide to US Government, K-2.  Includes sub topics relevant to the grade I teach, including "Your Neighborhood."  Website also includes games and activities, lots of visuals and videos, and also additional resources and websites for the students to explore.

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.

List of FL field trips.

An alternative to MovieMaker and iMovie. Might be easier for students who don't have access to either programs at home. After playing with this for a bit, I find it to be more useful than Animoto because users can do more. Instead o just plugging things in, you actually get to play around a bit more.

My students love visiting this library since it is online. While they aren't actually checking out books, they are gaining experience with research skills and reading non-fiction texts.

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This blog chronicles my journey towards integrating more innovative technology in my classroom to enhance student engagement, enjoyment and achievement. I would love your feedback!

This is a link to the full-text research article authored by Glenda A. Gunter, Robert F. Kenny and Erik H. Vick. The title is "Taking educational games seriously: using the RETAIN model to design endogenous fantasy into standalone educational games". The authors argue that for educational games to be effective, a new design paradigm needs to be utilized. They recommend the RETAIN design and evaluation model. The article is published in Education Tech Research Dev (2008) 56:511-537 and the DOI is 10.1007/s11423-007-9073-2.

Great practice for math skills. Keeps a record of student progress for teachers and kids are excited to get the 7 to 8 minutes of practice per day.