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This is a great presentation on ways to use different google applications in your classroom. Google provides free applications that are great tools in the classroom. This article gives you real examples of how you can use these tools to fuel learning in your student's daily life.

Great find. We'll be using this next week in class!

A script to grade google forms for you.

I really like this article because it gave examples of how teachers can incorporate all different kinds of technology into the classroom. It gave hope to teachers that might be afraid of changing traditional methods of teaching an English class. The article also detailed how students can help teachers understand new forms of technology and the teacher can incorporate those things while still reaching the teaching standards of each district.

This article presents 12 ways for teachers to easily integrate technology into the classroom. Even with basic ideas of creating a class website or using an online grading system, teachers are able to move away from traditional forms of teaching and are able to connect with others in new ways. Once technology starts to be incorporated in the classroom, I think teachers are willing to explore new programs and software, or simply learn to use one tool in multiple ways to benefit their classroom.

Educators have worked with industrial partners to create a way to learn using robots. Educators have been using robots to teach such subjects as geometry, physics and construction. They can be a great form of technology to excite the learning process.

I found this article very informative. The article talked about how Nooks were being used in an AP English class and how this form of technology has helped kids get more involved. The students were reading more and enjoying it more than ever. It also discussed the apps and tools the Nook has to offer to make the students reading more effective, like highlighters, dictionary and a way to take notes while reading. I think that anything that gets kids reading more and enjoying it is something we should look more into.

There are grants available for things just like this! Students definitely have their preferences when it comes to reading...Nooks, iPads, iPods, etc. Having different tools to choose from will provide flexibility and differentiation!

Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it. Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Tuesday for the nation to move as fast as possible away from printed textbooks and toward digital ones. Many countries outperform the US in terms of education and moving toward digital forms of education is a way the US can get back in the game, so to speak.