FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

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Google Earth can help you bring a world of information alive for your students. It can be used with all grade levels, and the possibilities are endless with your imagination! Students can use Google Earth to explore topics like the progress of human civilization, the growth of cities, the impact of civilization on the natural environment, and the impact of natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Teachers can use Google Earth demos to get their students excited about geography beyond the static map, or use different Google Earth layers to study transportation, demographics, economics, and in specific local or exotic contexts.

This blog showcases the work done by students in Dr. Christine Erlien's writing course "The View from Above:  Google Earth's Impact."  We focus here on sharing our knowledge of how Google Earth can (and is) impacting society (e.g.,education,research,security,privacy,humanitarian response,etc.).

Jeff Mao has forged a first-of-its-kind partnership with Common Sense Media to adopt their Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum. The curriculum helps teachers, administrators, and parents guide students to navigate the tricky of waters of life online.

Google's very own "Loch Ness monster," also known as Google Drive, has finally launched. It's the new face of Google Documents, and it's also Google's oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It enters a scene crowded with competitors besides Dropbox that let you sync multiple folders, collaborate with friends, and stream data to your mobile device - so how does Drive fare?

Google Drive is a great service, but installing the application and synchronizing some files is just the first step. These tricks will help you take advantage of Google Drive, both on the desktop and on the web - whether you're looking to easily synchronize other folders with your Drive or take advantage of the features only available on the website.

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A brief description of what a flipped classroom is NOT and what one should look like.

With Present.me you can upload just your slides, add audio, add video, or just upload a video all with the same account, and all from the same place. Great for flipping the classroom.

Manage all your clouds from one login with Otixo. Connect services like Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, Google Docs, SugarSync, Picasa, MobileMe, Amazon S3, FTP sites and WebDav drives...all from one simple app.

Review a Word document, fill out a PDF form, mark up an image, and more... All with Crocodoc, all online, all for free.

Grovo is an online education and training platform that helps people find and use sites, and helps sites reach and educate users. Before Grovo, there was no single, centralized location for Internet education and training. Grovo produces free and Premium Business video tutorials that cover the Web's most popular and useful sites as well as essential cloud services in social media, productivity, and online marketing. Applications include Facebook Profile, Advertising, and Pages, Google Analytics and Apps, Twitter, Yelp, Basecamp, and LinkedIn.

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You can store anything and everything in a track-whatever your heart desires-whether it's a task you have to get done ASAP or a cool quote you'd like to share with some of your friends or coworkers. In short, Tracks are like Tweets for doers: they're little bits of information that you'd like to comment or act upon.

Website that can help you flip lessons. Can use YouTube and Ted.com videos to create lessons.

Great resource for learning new web tools and how to best utilize their features in 5 minutes or less.

Interesting article on changing the technological landscape in the classroom through four different levels.

A science teacher trying to incorporate technology into her classroom feels resistance from parents...interesting read.